Pankaj Gupta
Cofounder And CEO at Yupp
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPankaj Gupta is a seasoned technology founder and engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building consumer products, AI/ML systems, and large-scale infrastructure across startups and giants like Google and Coinbase. He has led engineering organizations supporting hundreds of engineers and hundreds of millions of users—heading Google Pay consumer engineering and scaling Coinbase’s consumer apps to represent the majority of its revenue. A PhD from Stanford and a history of successful exits and acqui-hires (including Halli Labs and earlier startups) give him deep technical credibility across algorithms, NLP, and systems design. He combines product instincts with hands-on ML and blockchain engineering, currently cofounding Yupp to build an AI-driven consumer startup out of Palo Alto. Notably, he’s repeatedly taken projects from zero to tens of millions of users and has a track record of translating research into shipping products and hardware that still ship today. Colleagues describe him as an operator who pairs academic rigor with practical speed to market.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)The Mother's International SchoolPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (52)
garbage-collection10
rust-lang10
substrate10
voting10
foundation10
standard-library10
crate10
blockchain10
compiler10
rust10
allocator10
rust-language10
cumulus9
decentralization9
ethereum9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Polkaverse/Polkaverse
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 5 months
PankajChaudhary5/Portfolio
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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