Hi, I'm Gaurav Rane

Software engineer in California. I document what I'm learning here — mostly through short notes, sometimes through longer blog posts and side projects.

Now learning

Latest from the learning log

Consistency Spectrum explained in Distributed Systems

System Design
Distributed Systems
Backend

Recent notes

Blog

Understanding Concurrency, Parallelism and Multitasking in Computer Science

Explore the fundamentals behind these similarly sounding concepts in the world of Computer Science
- concurrency
- parallelism

Projects

SpeakWise

Help users improve their speaking skills through practice, feedback, and coaching — powered by LLMs.

Work

Dec 2020 - Current

PayPal Inc.

Full Time
Member of Technical Staff - 1 (April 2024 - Present)
- Serving as a technical lead within the team for fewer initiatives.
- Work in Progress
Senior Software Engineer (Dec 2020 - April 2024)
- Work in Progress

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