About

Akash Gupta is an experienced Software Engineer with a strong academic background in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute Of Technology, Roorkee. He currently works as an Associate Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs, where he is responsible for scaling, rearchitecting, and migrating the Louisa application to AWS. Akash has several years of experience working on distributed systems and developing Rest Web Services using Java, Kotlin, C++, Spring Boot, Framework, and data. He has also worked with databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search using Hibernate, etc as connectors/ORMs. Additionally, he has worked on data warehouses like Snowflake and created Data processing and steaming services using Apache Spark. In his previous role as a Software Engineering Analyst at Goldman Sachs, Akash was responsible for building service architectures, design documents, reactive APIs, data models, and pipelines for Louisa. Louisa is an innovative platform that enables people to search people by expertise skills, keeps users updated with news on their clients (companies, executives, etc), where expertise skills and clients served are automatically inferred by the engine. Akash has also worked as a Strategist in the Securities Division (FICCS) at Goldman Sachs, where he developed tools around allocating ALM funding charges from business level to trader level. He also worked as a model strategist for the margin model of OTC trades (SIMM). His responsibilities included reducing margin posted, finding shortcomings, and making improvements on the model to cover necessary risks, helping clients onboard the model. Akash's TechStack includes Kotlin, Spring, Java, AWS, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Spring Boot, Search, Backend, Spark, Snowflake, Web, Supervised Learning, Redis, Typescript, ML, and Kafka. He has relevant experience of 3.78 years.