Gurashish Brar

Gurashish Brar has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and companies. Gurashish is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at RelicX.ai since December 2020. Prior to that, they worked at Rubrik, Inc. as a Principal Engineer from July 2019. Before joining Rubrik, they co-founded Opas AI, where they served as the Co-Founder and CTO, leveraging Big Data and Neural Nets to automate Infrastructure. Gurashish was actively involved in building the company from January 2017 until July 2019 when it was acquired by Rubrik.

Gurashish has also worked at BloomReach as a Principal Engineer, leading the Infrastructure team responsible for powering the big data e-commerce platform. During their tenure from September 2013 to November 2016, they designed and built an enterprise-scale multi-region Cassandra and SolrCloud cluster and managed Bloomreach's data ingestion stack.

Prior to BloomReach, they gained valuable experience at Microsoft where they held various roles including Senior Development Lead, Senior SDE, Software Development Engineer II, and Software Development Engineer I between August 2006 and September 2013.

Gurashish started their career as a Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology from August 2004 to May 2006. Gurashish also worked as a Research Consultant at SRIC, IIT Kharagpur from May 2002 to June 2004 and at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur as a Research Consultant in 2002.

Overall, Gurashish Brar has a strong background in technology leadership, infrastructure development, and research, with notable expertise in big data, automation, and neural networks.

Gurashish Brar obtained their Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2004 to 2006. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, from 1998 to 2002. No information is provided regarding the start or end year or the degree name for their education at TU Dortmund University.