About · Gaurav D. Sharma

Fifteen years of building software, leading teams, and asking better questions.

I'm the Chief Technology Officer at Divam Technologies (joined Jan '26) — CTO as a Service for startups and scaleups — and Co-founder & CTO of WebLedger.in. I recently completed the executive CTO Programme at IIT Kanpur, graduating 1st rank.

Outside of software engineering, I'm an author, certified yoga practitioner, and long-time runner. I write about technology, engineering leadership, and life built around clarity and practice.

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1st Rank — CTO Certification, IIT Kanpur 2025-26

Flagship credential · 2025-26

1st Rank · Chief Technology Officer Certification, IIT Kanpur.

Awarded the 1st rank in the CTO Certification programme at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2025-26 batch). The programme covered systems strategy, capital-efficient engineering, AI in the enterprise, and CTO-level decision-making.

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At a glance

A quick scorecard.

15+

Years in production engineering

20+

Stacks shipped to prod

7.5+ yrs

at PAR · Punchh

1st rank

CTO Cert · IIT Kanpur

Track record

Past experience.

A decade and a half across SaaS, fintech, mobile, and consulting.

Jan '26
Chief Technology Officer · Divam Technologies
Self-employed · India · Hybrid
Technical Consultant for Startups & Scaleups, CTO as a Service, and Business Consultant.
CTO · Consulting · Architecture
'23–Now
Co-founder & CTO · WebLedger.in
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Turning Vision into FinTech Reality — cloud accounting for Indian CAs and practices. Full-time CTO '23–'25; continuing as Fractional CTO.
Fintech · SaaS · Founder
Prior
Lead Technical Consultant · TarkaLabs
Senior consulting engineer across product engagements. Architecture, mentoring, and code-review at scale.
Consulting · Architecture
7.5+ yrs
PAR · Punchh — SaaS loyalty & marketing
Engineer at one of the largest restaurant-loyalty SaaS platforms. If you're in the US and have used a restaurant app for loyalty or online ordering, chances are it was powered by Punchh.
SaaS · Loyalty · Mobile + Backend
2.5+ yrs
Service-based companies — early iOS days
Built mobile apps that made a real impact on people's lives. Was an early iOS developer back when only a limited number of apps were available on the App Store.
iOS · Native · Early-app-store era

Stack

Tools I reach for.

Languages, runtimes, infra, and concepts I default to. Happy to learn whatever the problem demands.

Server

Node.jsAdonis.jsPythonGolangRuby on RailsExpress.jsPHPRuby

Cloud

AWSGCPLambdaECSELKRDSRedisDockerKubernetesPulumi

Mobile

React NativeJavaScriptObjective-CSwiftJavaIonic

Data

MongoDBPostgreSQLKafkaRabbitMQ

Build

GoCDBitrise.ioFastlaneGitHub Actions

Concepts

GenAIRAGSystem DesignTDDBDDScrumKanbanDesign PatternsClean CodeSDLCPDLCCI/CD

Recognitions

Stages, awards, and good company.

A few moments that meant something — speaking, awarded, or in the right room with the right people.

AI Summit 2025 — 2025AI Summit — speakerIndia

Global Summit & Excellence Recognition UAE 2025 — 2025 · UAEGlobal Summit & Excellence RecognitionIndustry honour

Internet 2.0 SMP Individual Leader, Dubai 2024 — 2024 · DubaiInternet 2.0 SMPIndividual Leader

Certifications

Coursework, certifications, and credentials.

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1st Rank · Chief Technology Officer (CTO) CertificationIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur — 2025-26
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect — AssociateAmazon Web Services — 2019
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Complete Guide to Protocol Buffers 3API serialisation · cross-service contracts
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gRPC [Golang] Master Class — Modern API MicroservicesHigh-performance service-to-service comms
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Go: The Complete Developer's Guide (Golang)Idiomatic Go, concurrency, tooling
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iOS 11 / Swift 4 — Beginner to Paid ProfessionalNative Apple-platform development
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React Native — The Practical GuideCross-platform mobile
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The Complete React Native & Redux CourseState management, advanced RN patterns
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Master React Native AnimationsGesture-driven, performant UI
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React Native — Advanced ConceptsArchitecture, performance tuning
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JavaScript EssentialsLanguage fundamentals, modern syntax

Side projects

Things I've built or am rebuilding.

Side-projects that taught me something. Some shipped. Some are coming back around.

8–9 yrs ago

Coin-sized child-tracker

A tiny BLE device that slipped into a child's clothing. The companion phone app combined BLE for nearby distance & direction (~30m) with GPS for precise location. Built before "find-my-anything" was a category.

BLE · iOS · GPS

Rebuilding now

Auto photo-clusterer for trips

Tag a friend's face once — the app auto-clusters by face + location, creates a virtual album, and shares all relevant photos in one tap. Two-way: I get my photos from their roll too. Could extend to auto-collages and trip videos.

React Native / Flutter · ML on-device

Want to collaborate? Email me with your profile and how you'd like to contribute. Considering MIT or Apache-2.0 if open-sourced.

Currently

What's on the bench.

Building

Agent platforms

Comparing where to design AI agent workflows for production, and what makes a tool-calling layer actually reliable.

Scaling

WebLedger.in

Fintech for accountants. Cloud, mobile, web — supporting practices across India.

Speaking

Tech communities

Internet 2.0 SMP Dubai (2024), AI Summit (2025), and meetups closer to home.

Practising

Yoga & writing

Certified yoga teacher. Off-keyboard hours go to mat work, reading, and turning thoughts into posts.

Elsewhere

Where to find me.

Best places to reach me online.

Fifteen years of building software, leading teams, and asking better questions.

1st Rank · Chief Technology Officer Certification, IIT Kanpur.

Chief Technology Officer · Divam Technologies

Co-founder & CTO · WebLedger.in

Lead Technical Consultant · TarkaLabs