Neil Gupta
Engineering Manager at Roblox
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Gupta is an engineering manager and founder with 13 years of experience building scalable, user-focused products across startups and large platforms. Currently leading Trust & Safety, Infra, and Mobile teams at Roblox to scale Guilded, he combines hands-on full-stack engineering with strategic leadership. He has founded hardware and software startups (Hiome, Tabule) and led a major rearchitecture of Canvas LMS into microservices at Instructure, demonstrating both product and systems-level expertise. An active contributor to the Canvas open-source project, he has improved data import reliability and user-facing flows, bridging backend models and frontend UX. Based in Chicago, he brings an unusual blend of consumer hardware experience, enterprise-scale architecture, and rapid prototyping instincts honed through multiple founder roles.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Psychology Minor in Entrepreneurship, B.S. Computer Science Psychology Minor in Entrepreneurship at Illinois Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at The Harker School
English, French, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
react9
apidoc9
api9
postgresql8
handlebars7
html7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Jun 2016 - Mar 2019
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:185 commits, 27 pushes, 24 tags in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on improving the outcomes import functionality and related UI components in the Canvas LMS platform. They implemented features like sending email notifications and displaying flash alerts upon import completion and failure. The user also enhanced the user experience by incorporating links to CSV format documentation and addressed several bugs related to the outcomes import and grading functionalities, ensuring data integrity and usability. Their contributions involved changes across backend models and frontend components, showcasing a full-stack development approach.
lmsinstructurecanvas-lmsgerrit-mirror
TeamGuilded/react-native-fast-image
Jan 2022 - Feb 2024
🚩 FastImage, performant React Native image component.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
react-native-image
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