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Gaurav Garg

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VP Engineering at Benchling
📍 San Jose, California, United States

Gaurav Garg is the VP of Engineering at Benchling, an experienced leader with over 20 years in building and operating large-scale SaaS products. His expertise covers AI, cloud platforms, and scaling teams at companies like Workday and Groupon. Colleagues describe him as a great, collaborative, and effective leader.

He is passionate about applying technology to improve lives and is focused on attracting top R&D talent to Benchlings teams in San Francisco and Boston.

Unique fact: Gaurav is the author of 5 US patents, including innovations in scalable event processing and data privacy.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
VP Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
San Jose, California, United States
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AI in Biotech
He is actively leading the launch of BenchlingAI, bringing AI agents and ML models directly to scientists' workflows through partnerships with companies like Anthropic.
Platform Engineering
His career centers on building cloud platforms and improving developer experience, having led platform and infrastructure engineering at Workday, Groupon, and Cisco.
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Career

Work history

4-2023
VP Engineering
Benchling
5-2020 - 4-2023
VP Engineering, Platform and Cloud
Workday
2-2017 - 3-2020
Sr. Director, Platform & Infrastructure Engineering
Groupon
2-2014 - 1-2017
Director, Cloud Engineering
Cisco Systems
2-2012 - 1-2014
Director, Platform Engineering and Operations
Cisco Systems
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Education
Executive Education
Stanford University
Master of Science (M.S.)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
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