Anoop Gupta is an experienced engineering leader with 8+ years in senior management roles and a long history of hands-on systems work, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Sysdig in San Francisco. He has built and led teams through cloud-native and systems-focused product development, drawing on earlier technical leadership at Riverbed and engineering roots at ViaSat and SPAWAR. Anoop blends strategic delivery with deep practical knowledge of Linux systems and build infrastructure—evidenced by contributions to the popular Sysdig repo around kernel crawler fixes and package/build compatibility for container-focused tooling. He’s comfortable navigating both people and technical complexity, from package/repo management to disabling problematic builds for kernel compatibility. With an MS in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from USC, he combines formal networking expertise with pragmatic DevOps and infrastructure experience. Colleagues would describe him as a leader who keeps one foot in the codebase while scaling teams and products.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at University of Southern California
Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:17 commits, 31 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Anoop primarily contributed to infrastructure-related tasks, focusing on build processes and package management. They fixed syntax errors in the kernel crawler script and updated URLs for Fedora updates. The user also made modifications to temporarily disable probe builds for certain kernel versions and added missing repositories for AmazonLinux, indicating work related to build system configuration and compatibility.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.