About

Shashank Gupta is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with over 8 years of relevant experience in the industry. He has a strong technical background in building large-scale, low latency, and high availability systems from scratch. Shashank is an expert in optimising resource costs such as compute, storage, network, and memory, as well as designing efficient large-scale systems. Shashank has extensive knowledge in distributed systems, writing SOLID code, problem-solving, algorithms, and data structures. He has the ability to focus on the customer perspective and work backwards from the customer, bringing more than just technical development to the table. His skills have had a high impact on the product roadmap, allowing him to influence peers, insist on high standards, and improve team culture and standards. Currently, Shashank is leading the design and development of supporting files larger than 50MB in Excel Online, impacting over 25 million daily sessions. He is also leading the Excel Live syncing design and development across all platforms. Previously, Shashank worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, where he led the design and development of systems to automate the transportation compliance generation and transmission process across Amazon's entire European Fulfilment Network. He also defined the protocol between Amazon and other carriers for Amazon to store export documents across all of Amazon's export shipments. Shashank has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Computer Science from Manipal Institute of Technology. He is skilled in software engineering, AWS, Java, testing, Javascript, and backend development. Shashank has a passion for designing and developing large-scale, low latency, and high availability systems.