About

Shivam Gupta is a skilled Senior Software Engineer at Unacademy with over 3 years of relevant experience in the field. He is a Computer Engineering graduate from Delhi Technological University and has published 3 research papers in SCIE journals, one of which earned him a foreign grant. Shivam's expertise lies in designing, building, scaling, and managing high-traffic services, such as notification systems, in-house monitoring and logging solutions, in-house secret management solutions, deployment engines, and numerous Kubernetes clusters serving production traffic. He is a quick learner and constantly strives to improve his skills to achieve perfection. During his tenure at Unacademy, Shivam has made significant contributions to the company's growth. He designed and implemented Sphere portal, which facilitated 1-click service onboarding, resulting in a 99.83% reduction in required developer effort. He also conceptualized and developed the MySQL bastion service, enabling developers to have fully audited and time-bound access to production MySQL databases. Additionally, he designed and implemented a disaster recovery setup for the in-house secret management service (Vault), reducing downtime to less than 60 seconds. Shivam has also worked as a Software Development Engineer at Unacademy, where he laid the major foundation of K8S, enabling Unacademy to containerize services. He implemented an in-house logging system that is designed to ingest more than 300TB/month, built an in-house secret management solution on Vault with the best possible response times, and re-architected and scaled Jenkins with master-worker architecture in K8S. He has also handled production outages and taken actions to mitigate them. Shivam's technical skills include Software Engineering, MySQL, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD, Docker, Research Scientist, Sentiment Analysis, Golang, product manager, Elastic Search, and Microservices. He is a dedicated and passionate individual who is always willing to learn and grow.