Abhishek Gupta
Software Engineering Manager - Cost Efficiency at Databricks
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbhishek Gupta is a seasoned infrastructure and efficiency-focused engineering manager with 15+ years of experience building cloud-native, high-performance systems and leading teams at Databricks, Meta, and Schlumberger. He has a rare blend of hands-on architecture and people leadership, growing teams and delivering fleet-wide efficiency tools, autoscaling and load-balancing improvements that have realized hundreds of millions in savings. A CS PhD from UIUC and IIT Roorkee gold medalist, he combines deep research pedigree (30+ papers, 10+ patents) with practical impact—re-architecting user mapping for Messenger and driving capacity sufficiency for Instagram, WhatsApp and AI infra. At Schlumberger he moved 3D visualization and HPC workflows to the cloud (100x faster production optimization) and successfully handed prototypes into product lines. Known for creating visibility and education programs that translate technical metrics into VP-level decisions, he pairs technical credibility with clear stakeholder influence. Based in San Jose, he remains an active practitioner of cloud runtimes, Kubernetes, and performance engineering while scaling high-impact efficiency initiatives.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignXINE229 - Leading Innovation Organizational Leadership, XINE229 - Leading Innovation Organizational Leadership at Stanford University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
planets9
docker8
kubernetes8
cosmology7
go7
ppl6
scheduling5
mesos2
kubernetes-monitoring2
redmine2
gerrit1
issue-tracking1
utility1
charm1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
guptaabhish/hpcaware-cloudsim-3.0
Aug 2012 - Jun 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
guptaabhish/guptaabhish.github.io
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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