Nishant Gupta

CTO

Austin, Texas, United States17 yrs 10 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 14 years of leadership in fintech and crypto.
  • Expert in building high-performing engineering teams.
  • Active angel investor in innovative tech startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech expert with strong leadership in engineering and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipFintechInvestment StrategyArchitectureCloud ComputingHealthcareEngineeringResearchEducationSoftware EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentProject ManagementFinanceManagement

Other Skills

.NETAWSAWS TechnologiesAdaptationAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Angel InvestingArtificial IntelligenceBudget DevelopmentBuild AutomationBusiness AnalysisCC C#

About

Engineering leader with 14 years in fintech and crypto, focused on building high-performing teams and products at scale. Now also dipping into angel investing, backing early founders in fintech, onchain, and health-tech. Always open to connecting with builders and operators.

Experience

Investor

Angel Investor

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos

  • Formic, Rhino, Dimension Labs, Autopilot and more…
Angel InvestingFintechHealth-techInvestment StrategyFinTech

Coinbase

2 roles

Head of Engineering, Onchain Financial Products

Promoted

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

  • Eng lead of retail onchain products!
  • Specific functions and teams:
  • Lend
  • Borrow
  • Smart Contract Wallet
  • Staking Growth
  • Staking Platform and Payouts
  • Wrapped assets and liquid staking
Engineering LeadershipOnchain Financial ProductsTeam ManagementTechnical LeadershipFinTech

Engineering Manager

Oct 2021Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Remote

  • Leading engineering organization for all retail staking products.
Engineering ManagementStaking ProductsTeam LeadershipTechnical LeadershipFinTech

Rocket

3 roles

Head of Strategic Architecture( Sr Engineering Manager)

Promoted

Feb 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Leading Rocket Servicing
Strategic ArchitectureEngineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipArchitecture

Engineering Manager

Jun 2016Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Directly leading a team of engineers who work on stretch goals in fast paced and rapidly changing environment. My team focuses on building developing our disruptive concepts into products which are transforming the FinTech industry.
Engineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentTeam LeadershipTechnical LeadershipFinTech

Software Solution Architect

Aug 2015Oct 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Design and architect systems which are highly scalable, available, resilient using AWS native technologies.
  • Engage closely with the engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable execution schedule.
  • Led multiple enterprise wide projects like Rocket Mortgage which changed how we do mortgages.
  • Led multiple virtual teams for engineers to determine the release orchestration tool which requires understanding for developer tooling end to end.
  • Mentor software architects helping them develop their leadership and architecture skills.
Software ArchitectureAWS TechnologiesMentoringArchitectureCloud Computing

Stryker

Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

  • Designed and implemented a multi-zonal multi-layer secured cloud architecture for the 4 million predicted devices in the field.
  • Designed a web based application to remotely configure and manage 4 million devices in the field.
  • Setting up and maintaining a Development Environment.
  • Designed and tested benchmark experiments for the medical device system with the research team.
Cloud ArchitectureDevice ManagementWeb Application DevelopmentCloud ComputingHealthcare

Securiport

Software Enginner / System Admin

Oct 2012Aug 2013 · 10 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Involved in all the phases of SDLC from Software Requirements Analysis Phase to Design, Development, Testing, Integration, Implementation (UAT & production) and Maintenance.
  • Deploying Rational Team Concert for Source Code Management, Build Automation, Release Management, Work Item Management & Iteration Plan Management
  • Deploying Rational Quality Manager for Test Management.
  • Developing a Development and Build Process while coinciding with the client’s change management process.
  • Managing the build automation process and overseeing build deployments to all environments.
  • Setting up and maintaining a Development Environment
  • Involved in application enhancement in terms of Speed, improved security, Error Logging, Exception handling, Code Reuse with Object oriented design, Reusable Service Oriented Components and deployment.
SDLCBuild AutomationTest ManagementSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Western michigan university

2 roles

Research Assistant

Promoted

Sep 2008Jun 2014 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

  • Designed, simulated and delivered hardware circuitry for a condition based maintenance system including a data acquisition card for a customized fatigue sensor. The circuitry of the data acquisition card required sensing the data from the sensors and sending it over the wireless medium to the CC1101 receiver. The software components required programming the firmware logic for the data acquisition card using the Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller.
  • Designed and tested benchmark experiments for the condition based maintenance system with the research team.
Circuit DesignData AcquisitionWireless CommunicationEngineeringResearch

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2008Jun 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos · Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

  • Taught C#.Net and java to freshman CS/IT class and related computer science concepts.
  • Prepared assignments, recite laboratory sections and handled examinations and quizzes.
  • Encouraged students to be effective communicators, quality software developers and complex thinkers.
TeachingSoftware DevelopmentEducationSoftware Engineering

Hipc

Assistant to Financial Co-chair

May 2008May 2010 · 2 yrs · Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

  • Developed an annual operating budget with the financial chair.
  • Set long-range financial goals along with funding strategies to achieve them
  • Worked with the financial chair to determine the financial implications of the plan and plot them into a multi-year organizational budget that will financially support the implementation of the strategies.
Budget DevelopmentFinancial PlanningFinanceManagement

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Assistantship — Computer Science

Aug 2007Aug 2008

The L N Mittal Institute of Information and Technology

B.Tech — Communication and Computer Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2007

Saint John School

High school

Jan 1989Jan 2003

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