Summary
Abhishek Gupta is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building low-latency, high-throughput microservices and large-scale data platforms that handle terabytes of batch and streaming workloads. He is deeply hands-on in JVM ecosystems (Java, Clojure) and distributed systems such as HBase, Cassandra, Hadoop/Spark, Kafka and Flink, and has driven cost and performance optimizations like shrinking a MongoDB fleet into a compact Cassandra cluster. At Helpshift he leads data-platform engineering and mentors teams while delivering analytics APIs and production-grade data services; previously he led catalog and reviews systems at Snapdeal and executed a 100M-document migration for an enterprise CMS. Known for pragmatic tradeoffs between latency, throughput and operational simplicity, he combines systems-level tuning (JVM/GC/Cassandra) with product-focused delivery under tight timelines. Based in Karnataka, India, he blends deep backend expertise with proven technical leadership across startups and large enterprise projects.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Durgapur
Abhinav Bharati High School
English, Hindi