Gautam Gupta
Co-founder & CTO at Highbeam
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolGautam Gupta is a seasoned software leader and co-founder/CTO with 16 years of experience building product-led engineering teams and AI-enabled finance products for consumer brands. Based in New York, he leads Highbeam, applying hands-on technical strategy to help brands "build their brand, keep their cash" through smart fintech and AI integrations. His earlier engineering roles span fast-growth payments and commerce platforms including Alloy.ai, Venmo, Shopify and Paytm Labs, giving him deep experience across backend systems and transaction flows. An active backend engineer, he has contributed to the well-known open-source LimeSurvey project, porting legacy Yii PHP functionality and improving survey management and MySQL backup flows. Gautam combines startup grit and product focus with an ability to operate across code, data, and infrastructure—often tackling migration and reliability work that’s critical but not always visible. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Waterloo and brings a practical, execution-oriented approach to scaling technical teams and systems.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (4)
yii10
mysql10
php10
database-design9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey
Nov 2011 - Sep 2012
🔥 LimeSurvey – A powerful, open-source survey platform. A free alternative to SurveyMonkey, Typeform, Qualtrics, and Google Forms, making it simple to create online surveys and forms with unmatched flexibility.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:131 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gautam primarily contributed to porting functionality from the old Yii PHP framework to the newer version. The commits involved modifying admin controllers and views related to survey management, specifically focusing on the "Delete Survey" feature and MySQL database backups. The user's work directly involved the creation and modification of PHP files, suggesting expertise in back-end development using the Yii framework. The contributions also included database configuration changes.
reactmysqlresponsive-designjavascriptphp
highbeamco/unit-node-sdk
Dec 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:10 reviews, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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