Gautam is a Senior Software Engineer with Ask.com as a part of the Search Core and Distributed Systems Platform Division. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral member of Infrastructure Systems Research Lab at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received Ph.D. (with Prof. Brent Kang) in Information Technology and Masters in Computer Science from UNC Charlotte. He received Bachelors of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTU, India.