Summary
Achin Gupta is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 9+ years building cloud-native, observable, and highly scalable backend systems. He has designed multi-cluster Kubernetes observability platforms and metrics pipelines that cut cloud costs by ~40% and scale across 600+ clusters and over a billion metric time series. Comfortable leading end-to-end systems work, he architects fault-tolerant ingestion and CI/CD automation that turned multi-day deploys into hours while preserving zero-downtime guarantees. He mentors senior engineers across time zones and pairs hands-on coding with practical platform thinking to boost developer productivity. Recently he’s been exploring AI-driven incident diagnosis and AI-assisted CI/CD using the OpenAI SDK, blending ML experiments with production reliability. Outside work he recharges through travel, car camping, and experimenting with vegetarian recipes—bringing a maker’s curiosity to both code and cuisine.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor’s Degree With Hoñors, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree With Hoñors, Computer Science and Engineering at Panjab University
English, Hindi, Punjabi