Summary
Rakesh Gupta is an experienced IT leader and hands-on consultant with over a decade delivering software, QA, and program management across enterprise and consumer-facing products from Seattle. As Owner & Managing Consultant at ValuePlus Consulting since 2004, he has led geographically dispersed teams and driven QA transformations, test automation, and Agile practices for clients including LiveNation/Ticketmaster, Cricket Wireless, Yahoo!, and Linden Lab. He combines deep technical know-how with pragmatic project leadership, consistently reducing time-to-market and costs while improving quality. Rakesh’s background spans distributed SOA architectures, ecommerce, and open source integration, and he’s comfortable stepping into both coding and management roles to unblock projects. Not obvious from titles alone, he built enduring QA processes at Microsoft-era projects and scales teams across onshore/offshore boundaries. He brings a customer-first mindset and a knack for translating complex technical requirements into reliable, auditable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Birla Institute of Technology and Science
MS, MS at State University of New York at Buffalo
c#, java, groovy, python, php