Summary
Akshat Gupta is a software engineer with eight years’ experience building large-scale, production-grade systems and AI-driven operational tooling, now working at Amazon in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has delivered measurable business impact across Dell and RSA—saving seven-figure sums by automating ML-driven incident detection, cutting incident resolution times through AI-Ops, and boosting adoption and engagement for high-traffic platforms. Comfortable spanning backend engineering, SRE, and product ownership, he has led cross-functional teams to ship analytics, ETL, and gamified web platforms used by thousands of employees and customers. His early work includes EEG-based emotion recognition for DRDO and a production OCR-to-Braille pipeline that reduced conversion time from days to hours for thousands of beneficiaries, reflecting a knack for applying ML to real-world problems. Academically grounded with top honors from Shiv Nadar University and UC Berkeley (MIMS, product & data focus), he blends rigorous technical skill with user-centered product discovery.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Management and Systems, Product Management and Data Science focus, 4.0/4.0, Master of Information Management and Systems, Product Management and Data Science focus, 4.0/4.0 at University of California, Berkeley
High School, 96%, High School, 96% at Delhi Public School Rohini
4.0/4.0, 4.0/4.0 at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at Shiv Nadar University