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Ashish Gupta is a highly skilled technical lead with over 10 years of experience in the development, design, and delivery of business-impacting projects. He has an extensive background in scaling and running world-class tier 1 cloud services, with a deep understanding of the technical details of systems and products. Ashish has a proven track record of leveraging cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure with a focus on reliability, scalability, auto-scaling, configuration management, continuous delivery, and deployment. Ashish has led the end-to-end design and development of several business-impacting projects, including AWS EC2, AWS Fraud Prevention, Amazon Prime, and Amazon last mile logistics. He has also launched Entity search for Amazon last mile logistics and Student Graduation Platform for Amazon Prime. Ashish has designed and developed multiple interactive applications with highly scalable micro-services and distributed back-ends. Ashish has experience in creating mission-critical products for various startups. He created a new platform to redefine the process of manual authentication of customers for Paytm by DIY authentication, which helped scale Paytm's business to a billion users. He also designed mission-critical flash ordering systems and order booking systems for Snapdeal, which helped scale Snapdeal's e-commerce business for flash sale and high traffic days. Ashish has experience in building highly scalable products using traditional stacks (like Spring-Hibernate-RDBMS) as well as modern stacks (Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, and multiple NoSQL stores). He has also scaled the cart for Snapdeal's e-commerce business to handle multimillion carts per day with sub-millisecond latency for cart APIs by replacing and migrating the database from MySQL to MongoDB. Ashish is a self-motivated and results-oriented team player who has driven multiple refactors and re-engineered multiple solutions. He reduced Elastic search storage space and overall cost by changing data serialization and revisiting indexing strategy and improved TPS by 10X for various query patterns. Currently, Ashish is working as a Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon. He has previously worked as an SDE II at Amazon and as a Senior Software Engineer at Paytm. Ashish holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. His technical skills include Software Engineering, AWS, Search, Spark, Big Data, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Elastic Search, Spring, Microservices, and Azure. Ashish has 10.87