Summary
Apoorva Gupta is a software engineer and technical architect with a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native, data-intensive systems across product and platform teams. At Qualtrics they led architecture and operational excellence for 60 engineers across 50+ microservices supporting a $300M ARR product, discovering a zero-day vulnerability, driving cross-team secure development improvements, and delivering an operational scorecard used to set KPIs. They’ve re-architected high-throughput job pipelines (Kafka, Kubernetes, KEDA) to cut costs, built semantic search and CDC pipelines that unlocked new revenue streams, and prototyped AI agent features using Claude, Hugging Face embeddings, and Temporal. Known for hands-on mentorship and clear technical communication, Apoorva pairs deep debugging curiosity with product ownership and a track record of moving prototypes into production. Located in New York, they combine strong managerial instincts with IC-level delivery, often volunteering cross-team mentorship and internal tech talks to onboard and elevate engineers.
10 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 Washington
B.S.E. Computer Science, B.S.E. Computer Science at University of Michigan
Hindi, Japanese