Hemant Gupta
Principal Software Engineer at Oportun
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolHemant Gupta is a Principal Software Engineer with 17+ years of experience building and leading high-performance engineering teams across cloud, blockchain, payments, and consumer platforms. Previously AVP of Engineering at CoinDCX, he scaled and led a third of the engineering organization (190+), built the Okto DeFi Wallet and cold-custody solutions from scratch, and owned non-trading domains like payments, compliance, and onboarding. He combines hands-on system architecture and product delivery with strong operational rigor, having driven critical platform work at Amazon, MakeMyTrip and Sabre. Based in Bengaluru and shaped by an IIT (ISM) Dhanbad CS background, Hemant is passionate about security-first engineering and fostering cultures of collaboration and continuous learning. A self-described learner, he blends deep technical craft with practical leadership that turns high-risk domains such as crypto custody into reliable, customer-facing products.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
Github Skills (7)
python6
linux5
conda5
package-management4
ecosystem3
package-manager2
os-agnostic1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
HemantKGupta/Better
Oct 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:14 pushes in 4 years 1 month
HemantKGupta/Threads
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 5 days
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