Gaurav was introduced to GW-BASIC when he was 12yrs old and he fell in love with its simplicity. Over 20yrs later, he has programmed in most of the major languages, on every popular operating system and probably for every popular device today.
He works in the Mobile and Emerging Products (MEP) group at Yahoo headquarters and more specifically in the Mobile SDK team whose charter is to create optimized reusable solutions that are incorporated across Yahoo mobile apps, run on dozens of variety of devices and used by hundreds of millions of users every month.
He started his career in 2002 with Adobe Systems India working in their engineering solutions group. In 2005, he started his own company, Edujini Labs, focusing on corporate training and collaborative learning. He holds a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Speech Signal Processing from IIT Kanpur, India.
He is the author of the books "Reflections by IITians" and "Getting Started with NoSQL". He runs his personal blog at http://www.m10v.com. He currently lives in Silicon Valley.