Aakriti Gupta

Senior Backend Engineer with a track record of building distributed systems and working in cross-functional teams. I am looking to transition into an engineering manager role by leveraging my extensive industry experience and leadership skills.

Key Skills

• Leadership and team management
• Project planning and execution
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Focus on code quality
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting
• Effective communication and mentorship
• Technical: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis

Industry Experience (2013 - Present)

Senior Backend Engineer, Geo Replication

GitLab | June 2019 - Present

• Drove GitLab's Disaster Recovery offering to Maturity, ensuring robustness and reliability
• Maintainer for GitLab's open source Rails project, with domain expertise of Rails and Geo replication
• Led and developed the Maintenance Mode project, fostering cross-functional collaboration, including all stages at GitLab for knowledge sharing, reviews, documentation and testing
• Organized co-working days for German co-workers, enhancing team cohesion and productivity.
• Spearheaded GitLab's participation in Google Summer of Code in 2021, mentoring students and driving project success.

Platform Engineer

Travis CI | May 2016 - May 2019

• Developed the Travis API and backend systems in Ruby and Elixir, contributing to open-source projects.
• Engineered a service in Elixir to merge commercial and free hosted platforms, resolving data history conflicts and infrastructure merging.
• Led the development of scheduled builds (crons) feature.
• Enhanced fair use detection algorithms and

Backend and Infrastructure Engineer

Blacklane | December 2014 - April 2016

• Migrated legacy stacks to AWS using Chef and Terraform, optimizing infrastructure management.
• Dockerized services for development environments and implemented monitoring systems with Stackdriver.
• Decomposed Ruby monolith into smaller services, improving s

Backend Engineer

Early Stage Start-ups | May 2013 - November 2014

• Developed web APIs and contributed to web frontend at multiple early stage start-ups), gaining experience in multifaceted roles.
• Worked at TD Reply, a social media marketing analytics consultancy, managing Ruby backend and infrastructure provisioning with Ansible.

Earlier Experience (2012 - 2013)

Internships at 6WunderKinder and SlideShare, along with participation in Google Summer of Code (KDE).

Education

Masters in Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology
Major: Interactive Intelligence
Spring 2016 - Summer 2018

Bachelors of Technology

DA-IICT
Computer Science majors
Autumn 2009 - Spring 2013