Kshitij Gupta
Software Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKshitij Gupta is a systems-oriented software engineer with nine years of experience, currently working on the data platform at Netflix in New York. He spent four years on MongoDB’s sharding team—rising from intern to engineer—and has made substantive open-source contributions to the MongoDB core codebase. His work centers on backend and database engineering, including implementing resharding commands, fixing deadlocks, and hardening chunk and sharding logic, which reflects deep expertise in concurrency and distributed systems. Earlier roles ranged from building gRPC/REST services for connected vehicles to improving product onboarding and equity-vesting workflows, giving him broad backend and product-facing experience. A University of Waterloo CS graduate with distinction, he’s known for tackling subtle consistency and scalability edge cases that others often miss.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, with Distinction, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, with Distinction at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (11)
databases10
c-language10
data-base10
mongodb10
relational-databases10
nosql10
sharding10
sql-database10
mongodb-database10
c-programming-language10
database10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:118 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kshitij's contributions focus on implementing and debugging core database functionalities within the MongoDB project. They worked on fixing errors, enhancing code, and addressing issues related to sharding and chunk operations. Their work includes addressing deadlock scenarios, fixing typos, and creating commands related to resharding and data consistency. The user's contributions appear to be directly related to the internal mechanics of the MongoDB database system.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
kshitijng/fb-auto-login-no-more
May 2019 - Feb 2024
Don't auto login to fb when you visit after closing a tab. Chrome Extension
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 10 months
visitclosingchromechrome-tabauto-login
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