Aakriti Gupta

(DRI = directly responsible individual / project owner)

• State Management rewrite (DRI) — Epic #17954: drove the rewrite of a state-machine backend for groups and projects to deliver consistent state handling, audit/history tracking, and fewer timeout-related failures.
• Git repository replication v2 (founding DRI) — set the direction for a company-priority replication redesign addressing data-integrity issues in enterprise disaster recovery: planned the work and built the foundational path before handing off on a team change.
• Maintenance Mode (DRI) — delivered the cross-stage Maintenance Mode feature (Epic #2149, shipped in GitLab 13.9), a GitLab Premium-tier capability that lets admins safely pause writes during maintenance and Geo failovers.
• Drove GitLab's Disaster Recovery (Geo) offering to maturity: added replication for new data types via the self-service framework (e.g. vulnerability exports, as DRI).
• Supported large Geo / Disaster-Recovery enterprise customers through complex replication issues and 2-week support rotations.
• Maintainer of the open-source GitLab Rails project.

• Planning & delivery lead for the Groups & Projects sub-team of the Organizations team: introduced planning syncs and a realistic delivery plan that raised the sub-team's say/do ratio (planned vs. delivered) from ~50% to a steady ~85%, giving reliable delivery dates and reducing team stress through a team transition.
• Career-development mentorship: mentored two intermediate engineers with fortnightly coaching 1:1s — one earned database maintainership on the GitLab project; the other was coached toward senior engineer while transitioning back from parental leave.
• Hiring: interviewed engineering candidates.
• Feedback culture: wrote 360-degree feedback for peers and managers.
• Open-source community leadership: reviewed and merged community-contribution MRs from the open-source community, encouraging long-term contributors; ran weekly backlog refinement.
• Process improvement: authored the team's issue-refinement guidelines (clear go/no-go criteria and time-boxing); broke complex requirements into well-scoped, independently shippable issues.
• Authored "How we tested a feature that affected (almost) all parts of GitLab" — GitLab blog (2021), on coordinating cross-team work to QA the Maintenance Mode feature across GitLab.
• Initiated and led GitLab's Google Summer of Code participation (2021) and mentored a student.

• Built the Travis API and backend systems in Ruby.
• Built a service to merge the commercial and free hosted platforms, resolving data-history conflicts and infrastructure merges.
• Led the scheduled builds (crons) feature and improved fair-use detection.

• At Blacklane (being acquired by Uber): migrated legacy stacks to AWS using Chef and Terraform, dockerized services, set up monitoring, and broke a Ruby monolith into smaller services.
• At TD Reply (social-media analytics): ran the Ruby backend and infrastructure provisioning with Ansible.
• Across a couple of early-stage start-ups: built web APIs and contributed to frontends.
• Earlier: internships at 6WunderKinder (Wunderlist) and SlideShare; Google Summer of Code with KDE (2012–2013).