Akarsh Gupta is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building data-driven, scalable applications across startups and enterprise teams. He has progressed from early backend and big-data roles to senior technical leadership at Twilio, specializing in high-performance REST services, ETL pipelines, and recommendation systems using technologies like Java, Scala, Spark, Kafka, and the Hadoop ecosystem. Known as a team-oriented engineer and clear communicator, he pairs hands-on implementation with architecture and mentoring responsibilities, driving production-grade systems and integrations with payment and shipping platforms. Notably, he has improved analytics and personalization pipelines that materially increased sales and operational efficiency in prior roles, and he brings an uncommon blend of enterprise rigor and startup-speed delivery informed by an MS in Information Technology.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Information Technology at shri shankaracharya engineering college
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