Summary
Harshit Gupta is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in scalable distributed systems, backend platforms, and high-performance APIs, currently building developer-platform capabilities at Postman. He has a track record at Amazon Ring of reducing API latency dramatically, improving response times and throughput, and increasing partner integrations that contributed significant recurring revenue. Comfortable across Go, Java, AWS, DynamoDB and Python, he designs cloud-native services and real-time data pipelines that prioritize reliability and operational simplicity. Harshit’s career began in cloud engineering and machine learning internships, which shaped his focus on production-grade data flows and developer tooling. He actively explores AI-assisted development tools and contributor-focused projects, blending pragmatic backend engineering with curiosity about developer experience. Based in Bengaluru and grounded in an IIT Roorkee engineering background, he enjoys tackling hard distributed-systems problems that scale to millions of users.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
96.83%, 96.83% at St.John's School B.L.W. Varanasi
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Intermediate, PCM, 94%, Intermediate, PCM, 94% at Sunbeam School Bhagawanpur