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Anurag Gupta

Co-Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India11 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built high-performing teams to tackle complex challenges.
  • Led significant product developments at major tech companies.
  • Expert in trust and safety, performance, and reliability.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on product reliability and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Start-up LeadershipTechnical Project LeadershipTechnology Leadership

Other Skills

Start-up VenturesSoftware InfrastructureData StructuresAlgorithmsJavaAmazon Web Services (AWS)Distributed SystemsScalable ArchitectureMicroservicesElasticSearchCassandraHBaseNode.jsPostgreSQLMySQL

About

I love building high performing, focused teams to tackle challenges and solve problems. I am an Engineering leader with 10 years of experience across building consumer products, solving challenging problems on trust and safety, performance & reliability, data analytics and infrastructure at BigTech and Start-ups. Outside of work, I am interested in geopolitics, start-ups, business, history, sports and a big coffee nerd.

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Onpoint

Co-Founder & Chief FREEquent Flyer

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

Start-up LeadershipStart-up Ventures

Ai planet

Consultant

Dec 2024Mar 2025 · 3 mos · Remote

  • Built AI Agents to enhance software development, testing and code review

Whatsapp

Technical Lead

Jan 2021Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Built WhatsApp Flows to help businesses create tailored user journeys within WhatsApp
  • Built milestones for engineering, product, design teams & delegated work appropriately. Scaled the engineering team operations & communication via standups and dedicated channels. Built metrics to measure & improve product experience and monitor infra reliability and performance.
  • Planned and drove the privacy & integrity reviews, collaborated with respective partner teams to unblock product launches. Drove improvements to the privacy review process, guided engineers to be more effective in reviews.
  • Interfaced with businesses to help them onboard, troubleshoot and deliver flows to their users.
  • Mentored 20+ engineers to help them achieve their career goals at Meta.
Technical Project Leadership

Facebook

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Spearheaded the efforts to make Workplace, an enterprise communications product by Meta, more reliable and performant.
  • Partnered with Workplace Rooms, live, chat & search teams to identify core flows and reliability blockers, built perf and reliability metrics and worked with the teams to improve the metrics. Fixed logging bugs, added relevant logging, analyzed the funnel to identify opportunities to improve user experience and reliability.
  • Ran the workplace SiteEVent (SEV) program by organizing SEV reviews and improving SEV detection and mitigation metrics. % of SEVs detected improved from 10.7% to 28% in a single quarter and P75 Time to detect improved from 144 hours to 39 hours.
  • Established the foundations of Workplace Trust & Safety
  • Built the child exploitation imagery detection and reporting pipeline which included running a classifier to check all media, enqueuing human review jobs when needed and eventually reporting to a govt body NCMEC.
  • Partnered with the Account abuse team to build a checkpoint system to provide a way for users to prove their identity to get access to their Workplace accounts without needing manual or human support.
  • Led and built a Unified Locations Product to manage all Infra Locations at Facebook.
  • Built consensus with multiple teams and migrated data from various sources to a single source of truth. Resulted in excellent data quality, consistent user experience and a single team to own and manage the product.
Technology LeadershipSoftware Infrastructure

Media.net

Senior Software Engineer

May 2017Nov 2017 · 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Media.net is a technology company comprising of 1000+ employees exclusively focused on developing innovative monetization products for digital publishers.
  • Designed and helped build a multi-stage advertisement analysis pipeline to extract attributes such as is the ad animated or does it play audio/video automatically by replaying the ad with a headless browser.

Zeta india

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Zeta, part of the Directi Group, is a fintech start-up dealing with digitised employee benefits, rewards, and digital payments.
  • Led the development of a new product called Spotlight, a B2B Gifting and Rewards platform. Delivered the product within 2 weeks of inception making it the fastest product rollout ever at Zeta. The product is built on top of a proprietary microservices framework.
  • Designed and built the analytics pipeline which
  • Handles data reporting, storage and querying.
  • Allows easy addition of data stores to add redundancy and failure tolerance & isolation
  • Provides easy access to data via Apache Hive, Zeppelin, Elasticsearch, Kibana
  • Provides a platform for alerting on anomalies or other patterns from data in Elasticsearch. This was a game changer because this was the only way to peek under the system and identify problems, their source.
  • Was adjudged as an outstanding engineer in annual review and appraisals process in August 2016.

Directi

Software Developer

Jun 2013Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • I was hired in Directi's web presence business unit which was later acquired by Endurance International Group.
  • Led the integration of domain marketplaces such as Afternic (world’s largest marketplace) and Sedo. This cut short the time to buy/sell domains from up to 5 days to a few minutes. Collaborated with Afternic's development team in the US, product managers and other stakeholders to deliver the integration.
  • Integrated OpenSRS APIs in OrderBox (Endurance’s Domain and Hosting management Platform). This allows 100k+ customers to migrate and manage their domains via OrderBox and saves cost to integrate the APIs on their end.
  • Implemented and launched a suite of ‘bulk’ features in OrderBox such as adding privacy protection to domains that allowed customers to easily perform these operations on thousands of domains in one go.
  • Integrated several new gTLDs and ccTLDs (.at, .wien, .uk and more) with Orderbox

Amazon

Software Development Engineer - Intern

Jun 2012Jul 2012 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • # I was hired in Channel Sales Support Team as an Software Intern where I developed a generic keyword based web crawler to fetch details about Sellers selling their products on e-commerce platforms such as shopbot.ca, ciao.co.uk and more.

Education

Delhi Technological university

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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