Gaurav Saxena is a Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services currently working on Amazon Redshift, Amazon's fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. Gaurav is leading Redshift's move towards a touch-free autonomous system and has architected several features in this space like automatic workload management, intelligent scaling and automatic materialized views. Gaurav has published many research papers and patents in the field of ML for systems. Gaurav received his masters in computer science from University of California, San Diego and bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.