Hi, I’m Gaurav Navgire

I’m a Forward Deployed Architect and Senior Solutions Architect at Zensar, based in Pune, India, designing and delivering cutting-edge solutions for the Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) domain.

With 17+ years in the software industry — across both product-based and services-based organizations — I’ve built my career turning complex business problems into robust, scalable technology. That blend of product depth and services breadth shapes how I work: I care as much about long-term architectural soundness as I do about shipping something that solves a real problem today.

What I do

As a Forward Deployed Architect, I work close to the customer — sitting between engineering and the business to make sure the solution actually fits the problem. Day to day, that means:

• Solution & enterprise architecture — translating business goals into designs that are secure, resilient, and built to scale in regulated BFSI environments.
• Cutting-edge delivery — bringing emerging technology and modern engineering practices to real-world financial-services challenges.
• Hands-on partnership — engaging directly with stakeholders to shape, prototype, and deploy solutions, then iterating as their needs evolve.
• Bridging product and services thinking — drawing on years of building products and delivering client engagements to balance reusability with a tailored fit.

Experience

Senior Solutions Architect — Zensar Technologies · Jan 2022 – Present

Forward-deployed architecture and delivery of cutting-edge solutions in the BFSI domain.

VP Engineering — Rubix108 Technologies & Chhoriya Realty · Feb 2017 – Dec 2021

Owned architecture and delivery of B2B and B2B2C SaaS products in the Edu-tech and Prop-tech domains. Built and led engineering teams, designed secure and scalable cloud architecture (Google Cloud Platform), and managed planning, estimation, and infrastructure cost across bare-metal, hybrid, and cloud-native deployments.

Principal Software Engineer — Rubix108 Technologies · Aug 2015 – Jan 2017

Solutions Architect for the end-to-end mobility of the RTOTAL product suite — native iOS and Android apps with offline-first architecture and reactive programming. Full-stack development in Java with Spring Boot, building distributed, event-driven microservices on GCP with Spring Cloud. Implemented OAuth 2.0 authentication/authorization (Spring Security, JWT), evolved a monolith into modular microservices, and set up CI/CD with Jenkins and Docker.

Lead Engineer — Zensar Technologies · Nov 2014 – Aug 2015

Tech lead for a Dynamic Forms mobile solution on Android and hybrid (Cordova) apps. Drove solution design across UI/UX, server, and mobile teams; delivered security solutions at the data, network, and binary levels (including an open-source encryption library); and handled on-site requirement gathering, planning, and delivery.

Senior Software Engineer — AgreeYa Mobility (Mobiliya) · Jul 2011 – Nov 2014

Android framework programmer building a custom secure ROM on Android Jelly Bean, a multi-user framework and custom system service for enterprise containers, and an MDM solution for device management. Enhanced the Android email app with IMAP (RFC 3501) and Lemonade (RFC 5550) support, and led an e-learning platform on Android (hybrid) and desktop (JavaFX).

Software Engineer — Infosys · Dec 2008 - Jun 2011

Delivered solutions on SAP Business Intelligence platforms.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology · 2004 – 2008

Government Engineering College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

Beyond work

Outside of architecture, I’m a lifelong gamer — co-founder of Playground eSports, a video-game blogger and hobbyist game programmer, certified in Gamification from the University of Pennsylvania (Coursera).

Let’s connect

I’m always happy to talk architecture, BFSI technology, and building things that last. You’ll find me on the links in the sidebar — reach out any time.