About

RK Gupta is a highly experienced and accomplished software engineering leader with a proven track record of success in delivering high-quality results. With over 24 years of relevant experience, RK has worked at both global software product enterprises and fast-paced start-up ecosystems. He has in-depth knowledge of new generation data-center technologies like Distributed systems, Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and DevOps. RK has a team-first attitude and is passionate about building and leading high-performing engineering teams. He focuses on timely delivery with data-driven quality metrics and risk mitigation. RK is also proficient in organization CapEx and OpEx planning and has partnered with GTM, Product Management, and Field teams. He has strong customer focus and has experience in engaging with large enterprise customers across the globe. RK has expertise in Cloud technologies such as VMWare, GCP, AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), and Microservices. He is also well-versed in DevOps/ Developer Productivity tools like Git/BitBucket, Bamboo, JUnit, Robot framework, Jenkins, and Gerrit. RK has worked with Data Engineering tools such as Statistics, Hadoop, Kafka, and ELK. He also has experience with Distributed Systems such as Paxos and Raft. RK has worked with Virtualization (VMWare/HyperV), CoreOS, Linux, FreeBSD, SAN/ vSAN, NFS/SMB/S3, and data protection/backup systems. He is proficient in languages such as C, Perl, and Python and productivity tools like Microsoft Office suite, Google Suite, Zephyr, JIRA, Confluence, and Rally. RK has also worked with performance tools such as FIO, VDBench, Perfmon, SAR, and IOMeter. Currently, RK is the Director of Software Engineering at Confluent, a company that focuses on Data in Motion and platforms. Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at Cohesity and as the Director of Software Engineering, Cloud Platform at Dell. RK has a strong background in Data Engineering, DevOps, AWS, Bamboo, Product Management, Hadoop, Kafka, Jenkins, Microservices, GCP, Python, Senior Software Engineer, and C. Overall, RK is a seasoned software engineering leader with strong delivery capabilities, a team-first attitude, and a focus on timely delivery with data-driven quality metrics and risk mitigation. He has a proven track record of success in building and leading high-performing engineering teams and partnering with GTM