Bhupesh Bansal
Head Of Engineering - Square Banking
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolBhupesh Bansal is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and consumer products that have scaled to 100M+ users. Currently Head of Engineering for Square Banking after leading multiple major Square engineering organizations, he combines operator-scale leadership (managing orgs of 80–300+ engineers and 150+ backend services) with hands-on systems expertise. He has been part of three startups that reached exits or IPOs and founded an AI workflow startup that automated CRM workflows, demonstrating entrepreneurial grit alongside enterprise impact. Early career contributions include co-authoring open-source infrastructure like Project Voldemort and improving its storage and rebalancing internals—work that influenced large-scale storage patterns. Bhupesh blends product-focused roadmap execution with deep backend engineering, particularly around core trading, payments, and pricing platforms. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs technical depth from USC and IIT Kharagpur with leadership training from Harvard Business School Online.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer science, MS Computer science at University of Southern CaliforniaSpecialization in Leadership & Management, Specialization in Leadership & Management at Harvard Business School OnlineXI - XII Science stream, XI - XII Science stream at S.M.J.P.SB.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Github Skills (7)
data-storage10
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
testing9
distributed-systems9
metadata-management9
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Github contributions (5)
voldemort/voldemort
Jan 2009 - Jan 2010
An open source clone of Amazon's Dynamo.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:278 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Bhupesh primarily focused on modifying and improving the read-only store functionality of the Voldemort system, as evidenced by the changes to RandomAccessFileStore. They also introduced code changes in the RoutedStore and implemented features such as data restoration, delete partitions support, and added JMX for the defaultStoreClient. Furthermore, the user contributed to the AdminClient by bootstrap code and added support for rebalancing all stores.
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