Sandesh Gupta

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable DBaaS platforms.
Proven track record in leading diverse engineering teams.
Strong background in system design and architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on engineering management and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementDistributed SystemsDbaasCloud ComputingEngineering LeadershipSystem DesignFeature DevelopmentUser ExperienceProduct LaunchSupply ChainSoftware DevelopmentArchitectural DesignApplication Development

Other Skills

Building highly scalable, low latency, high throughput, fault tolerant Distributed SystemsLeadershipPeople ManagementSystem design (HLD + LLD)DBaaS scaling for ultra high r/w qpsData relayersScalable & Layered architecturePerformance bottlenecks reductionPerformance ManagementTechnical guidanceLeading a diverse team of engineersFostering technical growthStrategising tech-stackLayered architectureCapacity planning

About

Disclaimer: Opinions, views, posts and comments are personal and not representative of the employer. Current: Engineering Manager, Building NoSQL as a Service (DBaaS) platforms at Flipkart Flipkart Certified Kubernetes Developer, Pega Certified System Architect, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS-BizTalk), Udacity Nanodegree in Machine Learning, Coursera Mastery Badge in Cloud Computing Skills: Building highly scalable, low latency, high throughput, fault tolerant Distributed Systems, Engineering Management, Leadership, People Management System design (HLD + LLD), DBaaS scaling for ultra high r/w qps, Data relayers, Scalable & Layered architecture, Performance bottlenecks reduction, Pega PRPC framework, Oracle ADF framework.

Experience

11 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Flipkart

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos

● Building a highly scalable DBaaS platform ground-up on Hybrid Cloud, serving multi-million read write qps with triple nine uptime guarantee.
Production scale achieved with DbaaS: https://aerospike.com/news/aerospike-database-on-kubernetes-enabled-95-million-transactions-per-second-on-e-commerce-platform-for-festive-sale/
● Technical guidance and leading a diverse team of engineers, including SDEs, SREs, UI developers, and Operations executives. Responsible for performance management, fostered technical growth, and drove their career development to ensure both individual and team success.
Conference Speaker:
ETCIO Annual Conclave 2025, 7th Edition, Southeast Asia
Highlight Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/LciBUNns1Is
Details: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/etcio_etcioac25-cioleadership-digitaltransformation-activity-7333002539149250561-APn7/
APJ Summit:
Video: https://youtu.be/d-VI4mJIsHY?t=845
Details: https://aerospike.com/resources/videos/vid-flipkart-scaling-aerospike-at-flipkart-with-k8s/

Building highly scalable, low latency, high throughput, fault tolerant Distributed SystemsEngineering ManagementLeadershipPeople ManagementSystem design (HLD + LLD)DBaaS scaling for ultra high r/w qps+4

Engineering Management/Tech Lead

Jan 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

● Technical guidance and leading a diverse team of engineers, including SDEs, SREs, UI developers, and Operations executives. Responsible for performance management, fostered technical growth, and drove their career development to ensure both individual and team success.

Technical guidanceLeading a diverse team of engineersPerformance managementFostering technical growthEngineering ManagementEngineering Leadership

SDE - IC roles

Jul 2017 – Dec 2023 · 6 yrs 5 mos

● Strategising tech-stack, Monoliths to Microservices and legacy systems rearch, System Design (HLD+LLD), Layered architecture, Capacity planning, Campus & lateral hiring, SDLC best practices.
● NFR scaling for Big Billion Days
● Built features from scratch for alternate commerce experience at Flipkart targeting mid-tier cities user cohort. Ex: Group buy at discounted price.
● Early days of flipkart I was initial few member of grocery team which has launched "Supermart" in 2018 into first 5 metro cities in India. I have also remodelled and introduced few new warehouse constructs 'Pallet' in the supply chain.
● Introduced and lead the development of sharded datastore capability in Data pipeline of e-kart org of Flipkart, required to support the scale for sale events, as various transactional teams across supply chain continues to opt for the strategy to horizontally scale their transactional systems with sharded design. Designed and built the components from scratch, to support the same. Being the primary SME, work with transactional usecase stakeholders wanting to onboard their sharded database to org’s data pipeline.

Strategising tech-stackSystem Design (HLD+LLD)Layered architectureCapacity planningSDLC best practicesSystem Design+1

Pegasystems

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Pega case management engineering team.
● I am working as a member of team which is primarily responsible for developing, enhancing, maintaining, stabilizing and refactoring in PRPC product area – Notification framework, Pega pulse, Attachments infrastructure, case type locking in Case Management area.
● Extensive usage of collection frameworks and multithreading, we get to work and try various POC in these areas for continuous enhancement of Case Management area, drilldown to best design Patterns.
● Implemented restful Web Services in the core product for FCM feature.
● Performance improvement of an extensively used and customer centric feature in the core product by optimizing various SQL queries and adopting best execution plans in the four major RDBMS – oracle, Microsoft SQL server, DB2 and Postgres.

Developing and enhancing PRPC productImplementing restful Web ServicesPerformance improvementSoftware DevelopmentArchitectural Design

Oracle india

Senior Application Engineer

Jul 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

● Developemnt of applications available in cloud, on-premises, and on-demand environments.
● Building application using Oracle ADF(Application development framework) and J2EE technologies which involves usage of well suited data structures and relevant algorithms.
● Development of a robust application which deals with mutli-million records and migrates them from legacy high-maintanance infrastructure to Oracle's next generation infrastructure, at a same time, providing comprehensive user interface for initiating data upload, monitoring progress, and reviewing errors, with real-time information provided.
● Quick proof-of-concepts to contribute towards the innovation part of the product.
● Performance improvement of the applications with iterations and pre-run steps involved on the rdms side of the app architechture when data volume is huge.
> Above involves extensive usage of multi-threading on both application side and jvm side, without severe performance impacts .
> Adapting the SQL queries to best execution plans.
> Periodic refreshing of statistics to handle performance degradation with bulk data.

Development of cloud applicationsBuilding applications using Oracle ADFPerformance improvementApplication DevelopmentCloud Computing