About

Jiten Gupta is a technology leader with over 15 years of experience in building software products and distributed systems. He is currently the Director of Engineering at Swiggy, where he leads the engineering team to build and design distributed systems for web scale. Jiten is passionate about solving complex problems and developing systems operating on high volumes of data and scaling them. Jiten has experience in managing and maintaining software products and APIs processing millions of transactions. He is also well-versed in holiday readiness and peak season traffic planning, multi-tenant SaaS platform development, scaling back-end databases, DB sharding, replication, and Restful API development, rate limiting, and security policy enforcement. Additionally, he has expertise in performance testing, tuning, and benchmarking. Prior to his current role, Jiten served as Senior Software Engineering Manager at Swiggy and Engineering Manager 2 at PayPal. At PayPal, he was responsible for building the backend platform for processing all payments via PayPal. He owned services and datastore used to fulfill more than 30+ million payment transactions for 25+ million merchants per day. His major use cases and platform builds included transaction idempotency, fail-fast, journaling, system of records, and lookups. He also owned KPIs such as latency and availability. Jiten's tech stack includes Java, Oracle, and Cassandra. Jiten holds a degree from St. Joseph Bilimora. He is a senior software engineer with expertise in Java, backend, web, and Cassandra. With 18.20 years of relevant experience, Jiten is a highly skilled technology leader who excels in building and managing complex systems.