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Taranjit Fateh Gill

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CTO at Alder Labs · Distributed databases · RocksDB, C++

Works at
Alder Labs
Location
Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
11+ years experience
Education
Christ University
Languages
English, Hindi
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

CTO at Alder Labs, focused on distributed databases. Wrote the Rust service that now handles 28 million requests a day. I write short fiction no one reads.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on Rust
  • Second opinions on consensus decisions
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Offshore staffing offers

Usually replies within a day

Skills
performance engineeringRustRaftC++consensusRocksDB
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Building out storage at Alder Labs: data engineers wanted in Gurugram

Role
Data engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
₹42-55 LPA
Team
Storage, 6 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Clear written communication
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp ₹34-80 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Gurugram, India · remote OKrocksdbconsensusc++
Open

Experience

  1. CTO
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Alder Labs · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 12 a week to 4.
    • Shipped 26 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2025
    Amazon · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 13 a week to 3.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
    TCS · 3 yr · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 32 a week to 1.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
    Salesforce · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
    • Backed 58 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
    Cognizant · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 24% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. Christ University
    BBA, Information Technology
    1998 - 2002

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