Anuj Gupta

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in Linux kernel development and storage stack.
Key speaker at multiple prestigious conferences.
Significant contributions to open-source projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack developer specializing in Open Source and AI technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Linux KernelSystem SoftwarePerformance TuningC++Artificial Intelligence (ai)Node.js

Other Skills

AlgorithmsBashCCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Computer VisionDeep LearningDevice DriversFlash MemoryHTML5I/O scalabilityKerasLinuxMachine LearningNVM Express (NVMe)Natural Language Processing (NLP)

About

Linux kernel development with a focus on the storage stack and system software. Upstream contributions : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=Anuj+Gupta Currently part of Global Open Source Team at Samsung. Specialties: Filesystems, Block I/O, I/O scalability, io_uring, NVMe, fio, SSD, flash. Talks and publications: USENIX FAST 2024, LSFMM 2025, OSS North America 2023 and 2025, OSS Europe 2025, SDC India 2022

Experience

5 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 3 mos

Current Experience

Samsung semiconductor

Staff Engineer

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Invited speaker at Linux Storage, Filesystem and Memory Management (LSF/MM) 2025, presented work on parallelizing filesystem writeback.
Upstreamed a new io_uring interface supporting metadata (protection information) transfer alongside data for enhanced storage integrity.

Linux KernelSystem SoftwareI/O scalabilityio_uringNVM Express (NVMe)

Samsung semiconductor india

3 roles

Associate Staff Engineer

Mar 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Upstreaming copy offload functionality in the Linux kernel, involving changes across VFS, block-layer, device-mapper, and NVMe.
Co-authored "I/O Passthru: Upstreaming a Flexible and Efficient I/O Path" published at USENIX FAST 2024.
Developed io_uring attached NVMe queue, bypassing block layer overhead (request, bio) to provide a minimal, high-performance I/O path.
Speaker at Open Source Summit North America 2023, presented "Revamping IOCTL with io_uring."

Linux KernelSystem SoftwareNVM Express (NVMe)Device DriversStorage

Senior Engineer

Aug 2020 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Upstreamed io_uring_cmd, a generic facility to implement asynchronous IOCTLs in the Linux kernel
Developed and upstreamed io_uring NVMe passthrough, offering higher flexibility and efficiency than the traditional block I/O path
Enhanced this I/O path with optimizations such as polling, fixed-buffers, bio-cache, and multipathing capabilities.
Contributed to fio 3.30 release with support for testing and performance benchmarking of this new I/O path.
Presented "The New, Catch-All, Fast Path to NVMe in Linux" at Storage Developer Conference (SDC) India 2022, showcasing the advancements and benefits of the io_uring passthrough.

Linux KernelPerformance TuningScalabilityNVM Express (NVMe)Device Drivers

Student Trainee

Jan 2020 – Jun 2020 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Software Development

Manipal institute of technology

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2019 – Nov 2019 · 2 mos · Manipal

Taught Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms and other technical interview related concepts to students.

C++Algorithms

3 edge technologies

Machine Learning Intern

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019 · 1 mo · Jaipur

Developed Face Detection and Recognition System.
Used OpenCV Haar Cascade Classifier to detect and extract features of the face.
Used FaceNet pre-trained model to compare the face detected with the face features stored in the database.
Stored the face features in MySQL database.
The model also tries to predict age, gender, and emotion using the facial features of the face detected.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)NumPymatplotlibTensorFlowDeep Learningpandas+4

Nuclear power corporation of india limited

CS Intern

May 2019 – Jun 2019 · 1 mo · Rawatbhata Area, India

Developed an online voting application.
Used HTML, CSS, and Javascript for the front end.
Used Node.js to build the back end of the application and MySQL for the database.

HTML5Node.jsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)