RK Gupta

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 4 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led transformation of observability engineering.
  • Scaled engineering teams from 0 to 140.
  • Implemented AI-driven solutions for operational excellence.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud data platforms and engineering leadership.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSoftware EngineeringData EngineeringLeadership

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesApache KafkaApache SparkBackup SolutionsBig DataBusiness ProcessBusiness TransformationCI/CDCassandraClickhouseCloudCloud DevelopmentCloud PlatformData AnalysisData Replication

About

Executive leader with extensive experience in B2B enterprise software, specializing in Cloud Data Platforms and Distributed Systems. Proven track record of building and scaling products and teams from 0 to 1 in both large enterprises and high-growth startups—driven by a strong culture of innovation. Skilled in driving operational excellence across horizontal engineering functions, including Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Cost Optimisation, and Release Management. A collaborative partner to GTM, marketing, and product support, with a passion for fostering innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement in product engineering. TECHNOLOGY LANDSCAPE Cloud : AWS, GCP Data Platform: Confluent, Kafka, Redpanda, Spark, Flink, Trino, Apache Iceberg, S3, Snowflake Platform Engineering: Java/Go, Microservices, DevOps/IDP/Observability (Clickhouse, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus) Data Analytics (Microsoft/Google Suite, JIRA, Confluence Tableau, Metabase) GenAI: RAG, Agentic Observability.

Experience

Intuit

Director of Software Engineering

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Global Head of Observability Engineering
  • 1. O11y Transformation: V1.0 - > V 2.0
  • 2. Telemetry Data lake (Clickhouse, S3, OpenTelemetry, Trino)
  • 3. GenAI: AI SRE ( Alert to RCA)
Observability EngineeringTelemetry Data lakeGenAICloud ComputingSoftware Engineering

Platformops

Founder

Aug 2024 – Jul 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Solving platform incident and operational pain with power of GenAI, OpenTelemetry and Click house.
GenAIOpenTelemetryClickhouseCloud ComputingSoftware Engineering

Hevo data

2 roles

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Head of Engineering

Advisor

Mar 2023 – Jun 2023 · 3 mos

Confluent

Director of Software Engineering

Mar 2020 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Grew India site from 15 engineers to 140 engineers
  • Transitioned delivery of Confluent Platform (OnPrem) to India
  • Led and delivered hybrid platform capabilities resulted in acceleration of enterprise customer adoption
  • Took the role of executive sponsor for largest enterprise customers and improved the NPS
  • Achieved highest employee NPS consistently for Bangalore site
Global DeliveryCloud ComputingSoftware Engineering

Cohesity

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Rolled out 1.0 as a service for Data replication, backup and filesystem on Cohesity planet scale distributed system (inspired from Google File System)
  • Led the release management transformation at global level and introduced real time release readiness scoreboard
  • Grew my function from 0 to 35 engineers. Helped in scaling India site to 200 engineers
  • Established the Developer productivity function to improve the engineering productivity

Dell emc

Director, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform

Jul 2004 – Nov 2017 · 13 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Responsibilities:
  • Built the Cloud Platform Engineering team from ground up
  • Delivered first storage as a service offering to enterprise customer
  • Rolled out first on-prem data analytics platform using portfolio of DellEMC products
  • Undertook control plane architecture refactoring of data protection to handle 4X concurrent backup of - VMs. Validated enterprise capabilities by dogfooding to EMC IT first. (ARR grew from 250M to 350M ARR)
  • Proposed and designed Backup appliance product to avoid server side support pain. Partnered with CTO and executive leadership
  • Managed OEM partnership with Fujitsu Germany for product growth in EU
  • Partnered with Field and Sales for product demo and PoC in APAC region.

Novell

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Everything about TCP/IP

Tata steel

Communication Engineer

Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs · Jamshedpur Area, India

  • Scada

Education

University of Rajasthan

BE — Electronics and Communication

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

EGMP — General Management

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