Avinash Gupta

CTO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India10 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led engineering for platforms serving over 5 million learners.
  • Expert in building scalable and reliable infrastructure.
  • Passionate about empowering engineering teams and product innovation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech leader with a strong focus on infrastructure and team empowerment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Infrastructure Design & ManagementTeam BuildingProject ManagementLeadershipPeople ManagementSystem DesignCloud InfrastructureProduct Development

Other Skills

0-to-1 product launchesAI/ML-driven engagementAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentCC++Data StructuresDevOpsDjangoDocker ProductsElasticSearchGo (Programming Language)GolangGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)

About

I'm a founder-turned-engineering leader passionate about building scalable platforms, empowering engineering teams, and solving real problems at scale. At PW (PhysicsWallah), I lead product engineering and infra for platforms serving 5M+ learners, ensuring uptime, performance, and reliability across regions. My focus areas include: • Infrastructure design & management • Revenue & Growth initiatives • AI/ML-driven engagement • PW e-commerce platform • Team building & 0-to-1 product launches • Improving developer efficiency Previously scaled embedded insurance, agency & merchant platforms at PasarPolis across SE Asia. On a mission to make engineering purposeful, reliable, and human-centric. Always open to conversations on leadership, tech strategy, and scaling cultures.

Experience

Pw (physicswallah)

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • PW is an edtech company on a mission to provide affordable education.
  • I oversee the Platform team, Revenue & Growth, E-commerce, User Engagement, and AI/ML (application development) product verticals.
  • The Platform team is responsible for the entire PW and subsidiaries infrastructure.
Infrastructure design & managementRevenue & Growth initiativesAI/ML-driven engagementPW e-commerce platformTeam building0-to-1 product launches+1

Director of Engineering

Sep 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • I led the Backend Platform team, User Engagement & Saarthi product verticals, and media delivery platform and oversaw the standardization of backend systems and spearheaded central engineering initiatives.

Pasarpolis

4 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2022Sep 2022 · 5 mos

  • Pasarpolis is an insurance technology company on a mission to democratize insurance for people of South East Asia.
  • I handle two major business verticals in Pasarpolis - Mitra and B2B2C. I oversee the deliverables of both the engineering teams and help envision products keeping in mind organization's vision.
SQLKubernetesDocker ProductsSystems DesignProject ManagementLeadership+1

Engineering Manager

Sep 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • I lead the Technology Team of Pasarpolis Mitra - agency business of Pasarpolis. Launched in July 2020, the platform is growing immensely month on month with total agents crossing 40,000 already. I'm actively involved in finalizing the product map with the Product Team and leading the execution of those features to deliver on time. We are growing the platform both vertically in terms of new features and horizontally to cover more insurance products and providers.
SQLKubernetesDjangoDocker ProductsProject ManagementPeople Management

Tech Lead

Apr 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • I worked here in my capacity as Tech Lead handling the entire client integration side of things. We sell half a million insurance policies (and growing) daily. I along with my team create integration systems for the clients. The role is challenging to handle the multiple product integrations simultaneously as well as creating a scalable system that can handle the huge traffic from our esteemed clients some of which are the unicorns of South East Asia. The work is interesting as each integration is a result of combined and complementary efforts from the Business, Product and Technology team.
SQLKubernetesDjangoDocker ProductsSystem DesignProject Management+1

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2018Mar 2019 · 8 mos

  • I joined in early stage when the development centre in India was setup. I majorly worked on building the framework in GoLang to onboard B2B clients of the company via Tech Integration. I owned the services completely and managed onboard various clients while also scaling the framework.
  • I also worked on system that enabled instant claim processing for flight delay and cancellation insurance products by collecting data from various sources.
SQLKubernetesDjangoDocker ProductsGo (Programming Language)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)+4

Halobee

Co Founder and CTO

Aug 2016Jul 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

  • HaloBee is a one stop platform for shoppers and diners. We are on a mission to digitize the offline retail industry. The best place to start? MALLS!! With a footfall of more than 1 Crore per annum, Malls are the hubs of product searching and shopping. With absolutely zero digitization, the Malls suffer from the gap between the stores and their potential customer. HaloBee is here to fill this gap with its mall discovery platform – HALOBEE.com!!
  • On one hand, HaloBee gives the customers a chance to discover products, brands and deals in their favourite shopping malls (www.halobee.com) and on the other hand, HaloBee allows the stores to reach out to their highest potential customers (www.halobeestores.com). It’s a WIN WIN deal for both. Retail is changing and HaloBee is here to lead that transformation!
DjangojQueryLeadershipAndroid DevelopmentPeople ManagementProduct Development

Oracle india pvt. ltd

Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2015Jul 2016 · 1 yr · Noida Area, India

  • Oracle Web Services Manager is a tool that handles security of web services as a part of Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack. My key responsibilities included handling the build infrastructure of the product. I worked on automating some workflows, tracking the unit test infrastructure, integrating other Oracle specific products and handling the continuous integration and version control of the source code. I also spent time working on issues specific to secure token services.

Technex, iit (bhu) varanasi

Co Convener

Aug 2014Mar 2015 · 7 mos · Varanasi Area, India

  • Technex is the annual Techno-Management festival of IIT(BHU) Varanasi with a legacy of more than 75 years. The festival witnesses huge crowd from all over the country. As a Co Convenor, my responsibilities included managing the various teams of the festival through respective heads, conducting various pre-fest activities for publicity, handling the technical team and managing the overall smooth operation and organisation of the festival including more than 35 events, exhibitions and pro-shows within 3 days.

Viaedge software technologies (i) pvt. limited

Project Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Knowledge Representation

Iiit hyderabad

Summer Research Intern

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, India

  • Natural Language Processing

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Engineer’s Degree — Electronics Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

K.D.B. Public School

High School

Jan 2009Jan 2011

St. Xavier's School

High School

Jan 1996Jan 2009

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