About

Shard Gupta is a dedicated and accountable Engineering Manager with over 13 years of experience, including 2 years in his current role as an SDM at Amazon. He has a strong track record of delivering customer-driven features in a fast-paced dynamic environment. Shard is a leader with both managerial and technical abilities who inspires his team to bring out the best in them. He has experience in handling high-performing teams and working with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth product deliveries by getting it prioritized across the board. Shard is a relentless problem solver with analytical, design, and technical skills who applies them to supervise the entire software development life cycle. He has built products with a strong architectural and design foundation with scale in mind. Shard strongly promotes clean code writing practices, documentation, test-driven development, and agile methodology. His skills include project management, agile practices, partner engagement, managing customer issues and escalations, Python, C++, Nodejs, NoSQL, Kafka, Flask, FastAPI, Docker, distributed systems, microservice, SaaS (software as a service), zero trust, structured syslog, Kubernetes, Wireshark, test-driven development, object-oriented design, Git, Jira, Jenkins, and Monday.com. Shard has worked with various companies, including Colortokens, Inc., where he was a Senior Technical Manager. He built and led a team of 10 back-end engineers and completed 10+ projects successfully with stiff deadlines and great quality measures. He also worked with cross-functional teams, product managers, and multiple stakeholders to define the product roadmap and prioritize customer-centric features. He contributed to several organization-wide activities like getting FIPS compliance for the product and audits. At Landis+Gyr, Shard worked as a Technical Specialist, where he was a technical lead/architect. They were building a communication gateway for energy meters that followed stringent German imposed regulations. Shard has an MTech degree in IT from IIT Kharagpur and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from MITS Gwalior. He has a relevant experience of 15.04 years and has a strong tech stack that includes test, Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes, Docker, NoSQL, Kafka, Jenkins, Microservices, Flask, Software Engineer, NodeJS, Python, Backend, Web, and infra.