Ashish Gupta

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India29 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Flipkart's Retail Technology group to $1 billion revenue.
Managed India R&D center, co-authoring 8 patents.
Developed microcode for Cisco's 7600 router.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in E-commerce and Wireless Technology sectors.

Contact

guptazii@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

E-commerceData AnalysisEmbedded SystemsProject ManagementSoftware DevelopmentNetworking

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsArchitectureCC++Cloud ComputingDevice DriversDistributed SystemsElastic SearchEmbedded SoftwareEncryption ModuleEnterprise SoftwareEthernetHadoopIP

About

Building out the India R&D center for Rubrik. 20 years of technology experience split across the US and India. Most recently, as VP of Engineering at Flipkart, founded the Retail Technology group helping drive revenue growth from $50 million/year to $1 billion/year in 5 years. My team replaced manual, MS-Excel based processes with in-house designed, scale-out, predictive-model based decision-support systems for critical business decisions such as Inventory Planning, Vendor Selection, Pricing, Promotions and Buying, handling 70% of the company’s revenue and a scale of half-million requests/sec. Previously, managed the India R&D center for Firetide, a Silicon Valley wireless startup where he grew the India team to 55 engineers, that went on to co-author 8 patents in wireless routing software. Before that, in Cisco, was in the 7600 router datapath team writing microcode for a 16-CPU, 64-bit VLIW ISA network processor which handled 4 Million packets/sec in software.

Experience

Rubrik

2 roles

Managing Director India & Head of Engineering

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Heading Rubrik India site with primary responsibility of Engineering. Also helping achieve global success in non-Engineering by leveraging the best of India.

Vice President Of Engineering

Feb 2017 – Aug 2024 · 7 yrs 6 mos

Lightspeed india

Panel Expert - Lightspeed Access Program

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Empanelled expert helping Lightspeed portfolio company founders and tech teams with challenges Engineering and management of Eng teams.

Freight tiger

Advisor

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Yellow messenger

Advisor

Nov 2019 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Advising the Engineering leadership

Flipkart.com

Vice-President, Engineering

Jul 2012 – Feb 2017 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

Founded the Retail Technology group, which has helped solve some of the most interesting problems in eCommerce.
Created the technology differentiators for Flipkart in the following problem domains:
Demand Forecasting
E2E Planning
Pricing
Promotions
Performance Marketing (SEM, Affiliates)
Competitive Intelligence
Retail (Buying, Accounting and Pricing)
Technologies used:
Hadoop, MapReduce, Storm, Kafka, Elastic Search
Machine Learning
Stochastic & Multivariate Analysis using R

HadoopMapReduceStormKafkaElastic SearchMachine Learning+5

Firetide networks

GM - India R&D Center

Nov 2007 – Jun 2012 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

GM-level responsibility of all product delivery and people management for the India R&D team
Delivered 7 wireless products from scratch in 5 years
Grew the team from 18 to 43 people
Conceptualized the wireless mobility solution for Bangalore Namma Metro's in-car real-time video surveillance. Pitched the technology to the customer and helped win the contract.
India R&D Team has co-authored multiple patents in wireless software

Mobera systems, india

Project Manager

Jan 2006 – Nov 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos

Manage multiple project teams and customer-interfaces for projects involving research, design and development of embedded software on networked systems. Projects include network security protocol-stack implementations and wireless embedded applications.

Embedded SoftwareNetwork SecurityWireless ApplicationsEmbedded SystemsProject Management

Firetide inc, los gatos, california

Technology Lead

Jun 2005 – Dec 2005 · 6 mos

Develop embedded software algorithms and protocols on a wireless mesh access point, to solve throughput and network efficiency problems.

Embedded SoftwareWireless Mesh Access PointEmbedded SystemsSoftware Development

Cisco systems, san jose

Senior Software Developer

Sep 1998 – May 2005 · 6 yrs 8 mos

Packet-processing microcode design and development for Metro Ethernet features for Cisco 7600 routers. Features include IP, IPv6, MPLS, MPLS-VPN, AToM on POS, ATM and GigE network-processor based linecards. Responsible for packet-classification and packet-rewrite parts of datapath. Evaluated competing network-processor architectures for the next generation linecard datapath architecture team.

Packet ProcessingMicrocode DesignNetwork ProtocolsNetworkingSoftware Development