Ankit Gupta

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in edge security and optimization.
Proven experience in building scalable streaming platforms.
Strong background in API development and integration.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Fintech and Streaming Technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Edge SecurityProductizationEdge OptimizationContent DeliveryStreaming PlatformsLoad BalancingApi DevelopmentPayment SystemsBle SystemsData ManagementSystem MaintenanceData ExtractionFinancial AnalysisDistributed SystemsOpen Source Contribution

Other Skills

site speededge optimizationsasset cachingcontent formatsdeliveryRBStreamsKafkaprobabilistic load balancingmulti-protocol publisher supportauto scalingstreamingredBus PaymentsredBus Customer Manager APIredBus Central APIAPI enabled BLE system

About

Part of Edge Foundation team at Walmart. My interest areas include PL theory, distributed systems and algorithm design. Open source at https://github.com/gptankit

Experience

15 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Walmart

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working on site speed, edge security and productization

site speededge securityproductizationEdge SecurityProductization

Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2020 – Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working on edge optimizations, asset caching, content formats and delivery

edge optimizationsasset cachingcontent formatsdeliveryEdge OptimizationContent Delivery

Redbus

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Managing redBus Payments & Refunds team. Working on RBStreams - Kafka-based streaming platform with probabilistic load balancing, multi-protocol publisher support and auto scaling.

RBStreamsKafkaprobabilistic load balancingmulti-protocol publisher supportauto scalingStreaming Platforms+1

Tech Lead

Mar 2016 – Mar 2019 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working on services spanning booking and non-booking flows - redBus Payments, redBus Customer Manager API, redBus Central API

redBus PaymentsredBus Customer Manager APIredBus Central APIAPI DevelopmentPayment Systems

Lyvcast

Co-Founder

Oct 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building Lyvcast - An API enabled BLE system with improved range detection and plug and play communication. We engaged with leading retail stores during this time to understand customer sentiments and offline buying dynamics.

API enabled BLE systemrange detectionplug and play communicationBLE SystemsAPI Development

S&p capital iq

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

Working on managed shares extraction and maintaining the data delivery systems to the S&P Capital IQ platform and excel plug-in.

managed shares extractiondata delivery systemsData ManagementSystem Maintenance

Software Engineer

Jun 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Working on data extraction application used by research teams to scrape multi-class financials of companies (capital structure, splits and depositary receipts).

data extraction applicationscraping financialsData ExtractionFinancial Analysis

Microsoft

Research Intern

Sep 2009 – Dec 2009 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Building controls on MMC framework for administering client-side functionalities of OpenAFS - A distributed file system developed at Carnegie Mellon University. It was a small step towards Microsoft's goal to contribute more towards the open source community.

OpenAFSMMC frameworkclient-side functionalitiesDistributed SystemsOpen Source Contribution