About

Anant Gupta is an experienced software engineering professional with a passion for building robust, scalable solutions to complex problems. With over 8 years of relevant experience, he has worked with Agile methodology in all phases of software development. He is a backend engineer with expertise in Java, Python, Django, Spring, Flask, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, RESTful API, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Maven, GIT, Jenkins, Deep Learning, Scipy, Scikit-learn, R, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Visualization, AWS, HTML, JSP, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Grafana, Kibana, Sumo Logic, and Datadog. Anant has a Master's degree in Computer Science from The State University of New York at Buffalo, where he completed a summer internship with the Payments team at PayPal HQ. He also has experience working at Bank of America as a Software Developer and as a Software Coach, helping student entrepreneurs implement their ideas. Currently, Anant works as a Software Engineer at Wish, where he is the backend lead building and optimizing experiments on top of the existing campaigns system that delivers hundreds of millions of messages every day across various platforms. He is cross-collaborating with multiple stakeholders, proposing and implementing multiple campaigns to boost GMV growth and taking ownership of designing multiple backend services. Anant is also actively involved in triaging production bugs to ensure their timely resolution, mentoring other backend engineers, implementing new processes in the team, and hiring new engineers. Prior to Wish, Anant worked at PayPal as a Software Engineer, where he designed and implemented some amazing and feature-rich new products from scratch, which are being used by millions of users. He also took ownership of developing multiple backend services, API implementation, and proactively monitoring and tuning the performance of these services. Anant was recognized with multiple spot awards and a best performer award at PayPal. Anant's education history includes a Master's degree in Computer Science from The State University of New York at Buffalo, a degree in Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies from the University at Buffalo School of Management, and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from VJTI. He also completed a Deep Learning Specialization from Coursera. In summary, Anant Gupta is a highly skilled and experienced backend engineer with a proven track record of designing and implementing complex solutions. He is a valuable asset to any team looking to build robust, scalable solutions to complex