Kshitij Gupta

Software Engineer at Netflix

New York, New York, United States
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Kshitij Gupta is a software engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in distributed systems and large-scale data movement, now building online data stores on Netflix’s data platform. Previously on MongoDB’s cluster scalability team, he contributed to core sharding, resharding, and consistency fixes in the widely used mongodb/mongo codebase, tackling deadlocks and complex chunk operations. A Waterloo CS alum based in New York, he has a strong track record of internships and production work across cloud and backend services at companies like Carta, Autonomic, and Ritual. He blends deep systems-level debugging with product-minded engineering, often surfacing subtle consistency and performance issues before they impact users.
code9 years of coding experience
job5 years of employment as a software developer
bookBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (10)

databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
relational-databases10
sharding10
nosql10
sql-database10
mongodb-database10
database10

Programming languages (2)

C++JavaScript

Github contributions (5)

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mongodb/mongo

Jun 2020 - Jan 2023

The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer / Database Engineer
Contributions:118 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kshitij's contributions focus on implementing and debugging core database functionalities within the MongoDB project. They worked on fixing errors, enhancing code, and addressing issues related to sharding and chunk operations. Their work includes addressing deadlock scenarios, fixing typos, and creating commands related to resharding and data consistency. The user's contributions appear to be directly related to the internal mechanics of the MongoDB database system.
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Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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Kshitij Gupta - Software Engineer at Netflix