Ekansh Gupta

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India3 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Reduced Postman app load time from 40s to 15s.
Developed a file upload system handling over 200K uploads.
Implemented spam detection reducing spam from 5.6K to <30 daily.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-stack Engineer specializing in SaaS applications with a focus on API development.

Contact

ekansh.gupta@postman.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

ReactNode.jsAwsData Models

Other Skills

Amazon EKSCC++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Database ManagementDatabase Management System (DBMS)Docker ProductsEntrepreneurshipGitHTMLJavaLeadershipManagementMobXModel Context Protocol (MCP)

About

Highly motivated and skilled Full-stack engineer with about 4 years of experience in development and delivering large-scale and distributed applications. I am currently working as a Software Engineer II with Postman, contributing to the ease of the API development lifecycle by enhancing the overall developer experience of building, testing, and managing APIs. A major contributor to Collections, Documentation, and Schema documentation: • Built Request workbench, handling ~70% of overall traffic • Collection template: increasing user base by ~2% MoM • Owned initiatives for Postman app performance improvements: bringing down app loaad time from 40s to 15s. • Developed Postman WYSIWYG editor, enabling seamless editing experience (50k+ daily active users) • Built cost efficient file upload system (10L+ uploads), keeping in mind platform security aspects • Custom SSL certificate management • Managing team's infrastructure and its engineering aspect • Mentoring other junior and fellow engineers Interested in 1. Software Development / Research. 2. Entrepreneurship opportunities. Skills: Javascript, Typescript, Python, React (ReactJs), Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, AI, ML, Large Language Models, API Design, Data Structures, Algorithms

Experience

Postman

3 roles

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

❖ Improved postman app performance, bringing down app loadtime from 40s to 20s
❖ Developed file upload system in NodeJs with S3 & CloudFront having 200K+ uploads
❖ Developed, code owner of, PostmanEditor, built using plateJs in React, having 40K+ daily active users (Features delivered: File upload, Video Embed, Click-to-edit, Offline editing, Link unfurling)
❖ Developed Spam detection system using data Models bringing down spam from ~5.6K/day to <30/day
❖ Improved Schema Documentation performance bringing down loading time for large schema to 1/3rd
❖ Developed, enterprise only, Pre-publish secret scan for public documentation, 1K+ daily scan
❖ Carried out database migration to free up ~40% space from collections (core) RDS cluster
❖ Developed Custom SSL certificate issuance & management system for user-registered custom domains to host public documentation, using LetsEncrypt APIs & AWS Lambda

Node.jsReactAWSDatabase ManagementSpam Detection

Software Engineer

Jul 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Built File Upload System from scratch (50K+ uploads every month)
Spam control measures (Reduced spam from 5.6K/day to <30/day)
Improved user experience and increased adoption of Postman editor from 100/day to 3.6K/day
Schema documentation performance improvements (Reduced load time of large documentation by 1/2)
Custom SSL certificate management
Secret scan for publish flow

Node.jsReactAWSSchema DocumentationSSL Management