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Gaurav
Totla.

Lead Software Engineer

5+ years building scalable automation frameworks, secure backend services, REST APIs and reliable CI/CD pipelines with Python, testing and DevOps practices.

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# developer.py

class GauravTotla:
  def __init__(self):
    self.role = "Lead Software Engineer"
    self.experience = 5 # years
    self.location = "Bangalore 🇮🇳"

    self.stack = [
      "Python", "FastAPI",
      "Robot Framework", "Selenium",
      "Jenkins", "Docker", "AWS"
    ]

    self.automation_first = True

1,300+

Test Suites Orchestrated

60%

Faster Regression Cycles

90%+

Regression Coverage

// 01. about

The engineer
behind the automation.

I'm a Lead Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable automation solutions, backend services and CI/CD workflows across enterprise environments.

My core strength is combining Python-driven automation, backend engineering and DevOps to turn complex validation workflows into reliable, repeatable systems.

At Collins Aerospace, I've worked on distributed Linux environments, REST APIs, CI/CD optimization, infrastructure provisioning and large-scale test orchestration.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Complete DevOps Ansible Automation Training

Linux Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Docker for the Absolute Beginner — Hands-on — DevOps

B.Tech in Computer Science — Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur

whoami.json

{
  "name": "Gaurav Totla",
  "title": "Lead Software Engineer",
  "based_in": "Bangalore, India",
  "experience_yrs": 5+,
  "specialties": [
    "Automation Frameworks",
    "Backend & REST APIs",
    "CI/CD & DevOps",
    "Test Orchestration"
  ],
  "currently": "Lead Software Engineer @ Collins Aerospace",
  "automation_mindset": true
}

// 02. skills

My technical arsenal.

Programming

PythonJavaScriptC++ShellHTMLCSS

Automation & Testing

Robot FrameworkSeleniumPyTestPlaywrightPostman

Backend

FastAPIFlaskDjangoREST APIsAPI Integration

DevOps & Cloud

JenkinsDockerAnsibleAWSGitSVN

Databases & OS

MySQLSQLAlchemySQLiteLinux

Engineering Practices

CI/CDRegression TestingTest OrchestrationQARelease ValidationGen AI / LLMs

// 03. experience

Where I've shipped.

2021 — PresentCurrent

Lead Software Engineer

Collins Aerospace · Bangalore

Stack: Python · Robot Framework · Selenium · Flask · FastAPI · Jenkins · Docker · Ansible · AWS · Linux

Engineered scalable Python automation frameworks using Robot Framework, Selenium and Flask for reliable validation across distributed Linux environments.
Deployed applications on AWS EC2 with Nginx, configuring Linux servers, networking, permissions and backend process management.
Designed a Python orchestration tool to execute, analyze and consolidate 1,300+ test suites, reducing regression cycles from ~10 days to 4 days and accelerating delivery by 60%.
Architected secure Flask REST APIs to streamline automation workflows and reduce manual validation effort by 50%.
Implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker and Git for unit, integration and UI testing.
Optimized pipelines through parallel execution and tuning, reducing total test runtime by 40% while improving stability.
Automated 300+ manual test cases and maintained 800+ automated scenarios, increasing regression coverage beyond 90%.
Authored Ansible playbooks to provision distributed Linux simulators, reducing environment setup from 3–4 hours to under 10 minutes.
Used Gen AI / LLMs to generate test scenarios, edge cases and test data, improving coverage and reducing manual test-design effort.

// 04. projects

Things I've built.

📰

News Blog

Live on PythonAnywhere

A Django-based full-stack news platform with secure authentication, content management, post creation and editing, dynamic commenting, and an ORM-driven backend.

PythonDjangoHTMLCSSORMLive

GitHub → Live Demo →

🔗

URL Shortener

A full-stack URL shortener built with React and Python, backed by SQLAlchemy and SQLite, with REST APIs for URL creation and deletion and AWS EC2 deployment behind Nginx.

ReactPythonSQLAlchemySQLiteREST APIAWS EC2Nginx

GitHub → Live Demo →

⚙️

Test Orchestration Platform

A Python-based orchestration solution for executing, analyzing and consolidating 1,300+ test suites, cutting regression cycles from roughly 10 days to 4 days.

PythonRobot FrameworkCI/CDLinuxJenkins

Read the impact →

// 05. contact

Let's connect.

I'm interested in opportunities where I can combine Python, automation, backend engineering and DevOps to build reliable systems and improve engineering velocity.

✉️

gauravmaheshwari59840@gmail.com

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