Life's Shake.

Hello, I'm

Yash Gupta

Backend Engineer

I like taking messy production systems — analytics pipelines, metadata services, storage platforms — and making them cheaper, faster, and calmer under load. 7+ years across HPE, Sling, Bloomreach, Kong, and now Apple.

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Bengaluru, India

About me

Building calm systems

Hi, I'm Yash Gupta, a backend engineer in Bengaluru. I grew up curious about how systems hold together — Linux boxes, storage arrays, then the APIs and pipelines that sit on top.

Most of my work has been the unglamorous kind that actually moves the needle: migrating Python 2 estates, cutting cloud spend by more than a million a year, redesigning playback and image services so they take 5× the traffic on the same boxes.

Away from the keyboard I follow equities, tinker with new tools, and keep notes so the next problem is a little less surprising. The field doesn't end, and that's the point.

Skills & expertise

Technical toolkit

Languages & APIs

JavaGoPythonRESTWebSocketsgRPC

Data & Messaging

KafkaSQSRabbitMQRedisMemcachedAirflowSparkHadoop

Cloud & Platform

KubernetesDockerHelmTerraformTerragruntAnsibleGitHub ActionsGitLab CI

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLRedshiftDynamoDBCassandraNeo4j

Observability

GrafanaPrometheusNew RelicDatadogPagerDutySonarQube

Domains

MicroservicesSAN / StorageMedia CMSAnalyticsSearch / e-commerce

Experience

Professional journey

  1. Apple

    Bengaluru, India

    Software Engineer

    Oct 2025 — Present

    • • Building backend systems as part of Apple's engineering organization in Bengaluru.
    GoPythonDistributed systems

  2. Kong

    Bengaluru, India

    Software Engineer

    Jul 2025 — Oct 2025

    • • Worked on API gateway and service-mesh problems in a short, high-intensity stint.
    GoAPIsCloud

  3. Bloomreach

    Remote — Bengaluru

    Senior Software Engineer

    Aug 2022 — Jul 2025

    • • Investigated and optimized analytics pipelines and jobs, saving about $1.1M per year.
    • • Part of the analytics team processing on the order of 7 million events at peak.
    • • Led Events Management: pixel-quality analysis dropped from ~1 day to under 10 seconds; designed the Events Management API and real-time ingestion path.
    • • Independently led the Python 3 migration (plus arm64, Ubuntu 22.04, Airflow 1.3 → 2.4) in under 4 months, ~$20k/year savings and a cleaner security story.
    • • Mentored junior engineers while shipping features on daily/hourly pipelines.
    JavaGoPythonSparkMapReduceAirflowKafkaRedshiftPostgreSQLAWSTerraformAnsible

  4. Sling Media (DISH Network Technologies)

    Bengaluru, India

    Senior Software Engineer

    May 2022 — Jun 2022

    • • CMS team: schedules, channels, programs, series, and images for internal and external Sling systems.
    • • Spot Awards for two consecutive quarters.
    GoPythonKubernetesDynamoDBKafkagRPCNew Relic

    Software Engineer II

    Apr 2021 — May 2022

    • • Co-led the Player Metadata Service redesign: QVT support, 5× RPS on similar resources, API latency under 200ms (~50% faster playback start).
    • • Led Image Service redesign: real-time resize, compression, gradients, and overlays in under 2 months, also at 5× RPS.
    • • Key contributor moving metadata from TiVo to Gracenote.
    GoPythonKubernetesDynamoDBKafkagRPC

  5. Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Bengaluru, India

    Systems / Software Engineer II

    Apr 2020 — Apr 2021

    • • Core team for Recovery Manager (RMC): on-prem service architecture moved toward cloud microservices.
    • • POCs for production web-service designs: Go/FastAPI, gRPC, Kafka, OpenStack TaskFlow, APScheduler.
    • • Copy-data management revamp in under 7 days: restart time −80%, new storage-system add ~30s → ~5s.
    • • Led Python 2.7 → 3.6 migration for the whole codebase in under 3.5 months.
    • • Six recognition rewards during the HPE tenure.
    PythonGoKubernetesPostgreSQLRabbitMQOpenStack CinderSAN

    Systems / Software Engineer

    Jul 2018 — Apr 2020

    • • Storage division: snapshots, backups, restores, volumes, FC/iSCSI — Recovery Manager Central on Cinder.
    PythonOpenStack CinderSAN

Education

Schooling

2014 — 2018

VIT University, Vellore

B.Tech. Information Technology

  • • CGPA 9.46
  • • Merit holder 2014–17 (2nd rank, then 3rd rank consecutively)
  • • Programme Representative, B.Tech. IT 2014 batch (2015–18)

2012 — 2014

Gyan Vihar School

Senior secondary, Science / Maths

  • • Class XII: 92%
  • • House representative for 2 years

Projects

Work lives on GitHub

I am not listing a project gallery here. Repos, experiments, and older university work are on GitHub — that is the source of truth.

Open GitHub

Scheduler

Book time

Pick a slot here — the calendar stays on this page. Email still works if you would rather skip booking.

Get in touch

Let's connect

Tell me the bottleneck — a slow pipeline, a brittle service, or a launch you need to hit. I usually reply within a business day.

Location
Bengaluru, India