Manthan Gupta

AI Researcher

Bangalore, Karnataka, India4 yrs 11 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in inference engineering and distributed systems.
  • Led multiple successful projects in AI and data engineering.
  • Strong background in mentoring and team leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Engineer with expertise in AI and Data Engineering within the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend Web DevelopmentData EngineeringSystems Design

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAgent OrchestrationAirflowAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaArtificial Intelligence (AI)Backend DevelopmentC++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)CeleryClickHouseCloud FirestoreCollaborationComputer ScienceCurriculum Development

About

Hi! I am Manthan Gupta, an AI Research Engineer based in Bangalore, India. I spend my days diving deep into the systems that power modern AI, from how models run on GPUs to how agents orchestrate complex workflows. Right now, I am knee deep in inference engineering, writing GPU kernels, and exploring distributed training. My focus in 2026 is on AI agents, distributed systems, inference engineering, LLMs, and GPUs, basically, everything that makes AI systems fast, scalable, and actually useful. I thrive on solving hard problems and that feeling of being completely uncomfortable in a field I know nothing about. That’s where the best learning happens. My approach is simple: build to understand, write to clarify. If I can’t explain it clearly, I probably don’t understand it well enough I play cricket and badminton, watch F1 religiously, hit the gym regularly, and read way too many tech books. Balance is important, even when you’re obsessed with your craft. I am always open to interesting conversations, collaboration opportunities, or consultation work. Whether you’re building something cool, need help with AI systems, or just want to chat about inference engineering, reach out! Feel free to contact me at: ✉️ Email: guptaamanthan01[at]gmail[dot]om

Experience

4 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
10 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Agno

2 roles

Senior System Engineer 2

Dec 2024May 2025 · 5 mos

  • Expanded leadership responsibilities beyond engineering, taking a more active role in product decisions, strategy, and company growth while continuing core contributions as I did as a Senior Systems Engineer.
  • Led backend development and maintenance of the platform, proactively reviewing PRs, optimizing performance, and introducing new features to enhance scalability and reliability.
  • Extended the playground UI, enabling users to test and iterate on their workflows seamlessly, improving debugging and usability.
  • Implemented five advanced chunking strategies (Recursive, Agentic, Semantic, Fixed, and Document Chunking) in the SDK, enhancing text-processing capabilities and improving data efficiency.
  • Integrated Celery into the backend, improving task reliability, scaling background jobs efficiently, and enhancing overall system stability.
Backend DevelopmentPerformance OptimizationUser Interface DevelopmentText ProcessingTask ManagementBackend Web Development+1

Senior System Engineer

Jul 2024Dec 2024 · 5 mos

  • Maintained and contributed to an open-source project with ~20k stars, ensuring stability, addressing community issues, reviewing community PRs, and implementing key features and enhancements, resulting in increased adoption and engagement.
  • Helped implement agent orchestration abstraction workflows within the SDK, abstracting complexities and streamlining integrations, which helped users implement multi-agent orchestration execution in their systems.
  • Expanded SDK capabilities by significantly adding tools, agent storage, and knowledge base integrations expanding the integration library supported by Phidata
  • Developed a playground UI for users to test and iterate on their agents in real-time on a UI, reducing debugging time and increasing developer efficiency.
  • Built a dashboard to compute and visualize key user metrics, enabling data-driven decision-making and improving user engagement.
  • Revamped documentation, identifying gaps and restructuring content, leading to improved user adoption and reduced support queries.
  • Led a large-scale refactor, standardizing nomenclature from "Assistant" to "Agent" and "LLM" to "Model" across the codebase and documentation, enhancing clarity and reducing confusion in the developer community.
  • Established a structured tech spec template, streamlining feature documentation, improving cross-team collaboration, and reducing development cycle bottlenecks.
  • Managed user support across social channels, proactively addressing queries and gathering feedback, improving user satisfaction and community engagement.
  • Increased brand presence on social media by identifying marketing opportunities and engaging with the community, contributing to growth in followers and company visibility.
  • Contributed to hiring efforts, referring high-quality candidates and conducting technical interviews, successfully onboarding new engineers, and strengthening the team.
Open Source ContributionAgent OrchestrationUser Interface DevelopmentData VisualizationDocumentationData Engineering+1

Merkle science

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Joined the Data Engineering Team, contributing to the development and optimization of data infrastructure.
  • Designed and implemented a highly reliable smart reverse proxy, ensuring system availability with a 99.9% service level agreement (SLA) and handling 50 million daily requests.
  • Led the revamp of the BigQuery data warehouse, resulting in significant infrastructure cost reduction. Contributed to the larger initiative of saving $350k annually through the TG architecture revamp.
  • Pioneered the establishment of Data Quality Assurance (QA), addressing a substantial issue. Became the go-to expert for all DBT-related queries and concerns.
  • Successfully migrated from Airflow to Astro, improving the overall developer experience by implementing YAML-based DAGs and enhancing developer velocity.
  • Building a cutting-edge data platform to automate the chain onboarding process, streamlining operations and saving valuable engineering hours within a 3-6 month timeframe.
  • Collaborated directly with the CTO as an individual contributor (IC), actively involved in various projects.
  • Django, Celery, Redis, Postgres, Docker, GCP( Cloud Run, Container Registry, Cloud Build, SQL, Redis, BigQuery), Airflow, New Relic, Clickhouse, TigerGraph, DBT, Astronomer
Data Infrastructure DevelopmentProxy DesignData Quality AssuranceMigrationCollaborationData Engineering+1

Crework

Core Team

Nov 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Spearheaded the formation of a core team dedicated to launching a comprehensive web development cohort.
  • Successfully launched and facilitated three intermediate-level web development batches, along with a beginner cohort, totaling over 100 students.
  • Developed and curated the curriculum for both cohorts, providing mentorship and instruction in backend development.
  • Conducted thorough screening interviews to select top candidates for the cohort program.
  • Played a vital role in strategic decision-making processes that significantly impacted the startup's growth and success.
  • Devised and implemented a highly effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy and social media marketing plans to enhance outreach and attract a wider audience.
Curriculum DevelopmentMentorshipStrategic Decision MakingMarketing StrategySystems Design

Qoohoo

Product Engineer Intern

Sep 2021Apr 2022 · 7 mos · Remote

  • Qoohoo is a passion ecosystem empowering creators & their followers to engage in exclusive communities with immersive experiences to learn various crafts, skills & expertise.
  • When joined the product was getting revamped on Frontend & Backend with a plethora of features getting added for the new release.
  • Build scalable APIs for multiple use cases and systems from scratch that can easily handle traffic and are easy to plug in multiple new things in the future if required.
  • Some of the systems that I built end-to-end are Push Notifications, User Bank Account Validation, Report User, Live Audio & Video, log in with phone, etc, for the application which also includes bundling of push notifications based on rules, personalized notifications, etc.
  • Right now handling the complete Backend requirements with a Senior Software Engineer.
  • Django, Celery, Redis, AWS, Sentry, FCM, GetStream
API DevelopmentMicroservicesBackend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentBackend Web Development

Indmoney

Software Engineer Intern

May 2021Aug 2021 · 3 mos · Remote

  • It took 15 days for creating every alert, invoke API, and maintain reliable communication
  • Automate this process so that Product Managers can set up these alerts through a UI
  • Given whole ownership to revamp the Mutual Funds related communications.
  • Built a microservice and a generic pipeline that detects changes in the database and send alerts making it easier for all the other teams easier to communicate with users
  • Reduced time from 15 days to 10mins to set up a notification on database changes and easier
  • Built POC for Super-STP product working on backend and frontend
  • Python Django, Java Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS, SQL

Sanscript india

2 roles

Flutter Application Developer

Nov 2020Dec 2020 · 1 mo · Work From Home

  • Deliver a full-fledged application and website for the user and admin panel in the edtech space.
  • Worked on front-end, back-end, integrating third-party plugins.
  • Heading the team by setting deadlines, segregating work, and deciding upon crucial points.
  • Used Flutter for the front-end and Firebase for the back-end to deliver the application.

Mentor

Oct 2020Nov 2020 · 1 mo · Work From Home

  • In this 1 month internship, my role was to help the participants with their contribution throughout. Solve their doubts regarding anything related to the project, implementation of a particular feature. I would also review the pull requests of everyone and merge them into the repository. With this, I was also actively participating in the open-source program and topped the leaderboard with 170 points, and was awarded the best contributor badge.

Computer society of india student chapter, bennett university

2 roles

Student Mentor

Oct 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Provide advice and guidance to core members of CSI on a wide range of issues throughout the year.
  • Contribute to the development of the chapter by suggesting new ideas to build community and organize engaging events.

Vice President

Aug 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Hack the mountain's

Mentor

Oct 2020Oct 2020 · 0 mo

  • Mentored more than 15 teams out of which 3 went on in the top 10 and 1 out of them won the hackathon. Also won the Best Mentor Award for my contribution

Bottle co.

2 roles

Full Stack Mobile Engineer

Jul 2020Oct 2020 · 3 mos

  • One of the first employees at a SaaS startup aiming to build
  • team management software.
  • Selected to work on the front-end and back-end of the mobile
  • application using Agile Methodologies.
  • Throughout the internship was recognized for delivering the
  • user stories on time, keep the spirit of team-high, and eventually offered a full-time role.
  • Used Flutter for the front-end and Firebase, Node.js, MongoDB for the back-end to deliver the application.

Full Stack Mobile Engineer

May 2020Jun 2020 · 1 mo

  • One of the first employees at a SaaS startup aiming to build
  • team management software.
  • Selected to work on the front-end and back-end of the mobile
  • application using Agile Methodologies.
  • Throughout the internship was recognized for delivering the
  • user stories on time, keep the spirit of team-high, and eventually offered a full-time role.
  • Used Flutter for the front-end and Firebase, Node.js, MongoDB for the back-end to deliver the application.

Girlscript foundation

Mentor at Girlscript Education Outreach Program

Apr 2020May 2020 · 1 mo

  • GirlScript Education Outreach Program for Flutter noticed 200+ registrations where I taught Flutter to them via online webinars over a period of 2 weeks from scratch to intermediate level of expertise

Incubate ind

Mentor at Mobility Developer Tech Camp

Dec 2019Dec 2019 · 0 mo

  • Headed a group of 29 college students where the motive was to build an open-source project and mentored them to build this project while teaching to collaborate in a team and taking them through the whole development cycle

Tensorflow

Google Code-in Mentor For Tensorflow

Nov 2019Feb 2020 · 3 mos

  • Google Code-in was a contest that introduced pre-university students (ages 13-17) to open source software development. As a mentor, my role was to help them contribute to open source and give constructive feedback to improve them as a developer and also explain to them the advantages of open-source

Girlscript foundation

Winter Mentorship at Girlscript

Nov 2019Nov 2019 · 0 mo · Remotely

  • 1 on 1 mentorship to college students over a period of a month where I helped them learn Flutter and mentor them to understand the whole process of learning a new framework in the most effective way

Education

Bennett University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Software Engineering

Aug 2018Aug 2022

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