Manu Gupta
Software Engineer at Oracle
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolManu Gupta is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, currently driving backend development for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Resource Manager Service. He has led teams and shipped production features at AWS for Snowball, ECS and EKS Fargate—improving launch reliability, multi-tenancy via IAM, and security for ephemeral volumes. Manu’s open-source contributions span notable projects like containerd’s nerdctl (build/load improvements and multi-tag support) and the Athens Go module proxy (adding OpenTracing across many storage backends), reflecting a strong focus on observability and container tooling. He combines deep systems-level expertise (kernel mount optimizations, image handling) with product-minded delivery from his prior full-stack and product roles in healthcare and consumer wellness. Based in Seattle, he pairs rigorous academic training from Manipal and the University of Michigan with a practical track record of turning complex infrastructure problems into reliable, production-ready solutions.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science And Engineering, 8.87 / 10, BE, Computer Science And Engineering, 8.87 / 10 at Manipal Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Information Science/Studies, 3.7, Master's degree, Information Science/Studies, 3.7 at University of Michigan - School of Information
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Github Skills (32)
docker10
buildkite10
distributed-tracing10
proxy10
proxy-server10
opentracing10
containerization10
dockers10
containerd10
go10
golang10
buildkit10
image-management10
command-line-interface9
mongodb-database9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gomods/athens
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
A Go module datastore and proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 reviews, 63 commits, 177 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Manu primarily focused on adding OpenTracing instrumentation to various storage backends within the `athens` Go module proxy. This involved integrating OpenTracing calls within the core file system, S3, GCP, Azure, Minio, RDBMS, and Mongo storage implementations. Furthermore, the user implemented context threads to pass through storage get methods. The work improved the observability of the module proxy by adding distributed tracing capabilities.
dependenciesproxy-serverproxyhaikugo
containerd/nerdctl
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:197 reviews, 22 commits, 49 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Manu primarily contributed to enhancing the `nerdctl` tool, focusing on improvements to its build and load functionalities. They implemented validations for `nerdctl load` when encountering empty standard input, ensuring a better user experience. Furthermore, the user added support for multiple tags in `nerdctl build` and addressed issues related to image handling during the build process, which demonstrates the user's proficiency in build processes and image management within containerization environments. The user also added features related to volume inspection.
docker-imagecomposemultiarchcliipfs
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