About Kumar Gaurav
Okay Kumar, so tell me about yourself
Alright! To start with, you can call me Kumar or Gaurav, both works! (Some people go with full name, or initialst too...)
I am a little too busy in my life to mind any of that...
Born and brought up in parts of Central India, studied at RKVV, Bijuri, KV Baikunthpur, and then at DPS Bhilai. I shifted to and stayed in Delhi before joining MSRIT (now Ramaiah Institute of Technology) in Bangalore.
Graduated in 2018, I started working with startups and enjoyed it sooo much, that now I prefer to work with satrtups.
I am based out of HSR Layout now and enjoy the vast community of founders and investors here. Made some really good friends here too.
I interned and worked full time briefly as Business Development Executive with a Flipkart funded startup (TinyStep), quickly moving to the Software realm which I enjoy. Worked for 5+ years in capacity of FullStack Software Engineer with startups of various size and scale (details below).
I absolutely enjoyed working close to founders.
To harness my new found interest in Entrepreneurship, I left Quizizz in Jan'23 and started building my own company. Lots of learnings, realised what I am good at (tech, product, analytics) and what I need to work upon (cold-communications, sales, marketing, strategies, market-research).
Recently, I joined SnapTrude.
Software Engineer
- building fullstack web applications since 2018.
- contributed to Vuejs, particularly their CLI tool, among a few other open-source projects.
Previously employed with
| Employer | Years |
|---|---|
| Quinbay (formerly Coviam) | 2018-2021 |
| Quiph Media (SuperShare) | 2021-2022 |
| Quizizz | 2022-2023 |
PS: Q Factor
Check for the companies I have worked with starting with Q 😄
Entrepreneur
- Twople - a marketplace of activities
- Build and ran operations.
- ~500 Monthly Active Users and ~50 Monthly orders
- Formed Qruze - a community of car and road trip enthusiasts
- Quido - researched and worked on childcare and Early childhood development.
- Prospecto AI - Automation and intelligence platform for outbound based sales.
I am always happy to share my learnings, and experience building any and all of these.