About

Virna Gupta is a hands-on and results-driven IT leader with over 18 years of experience in leading and delivering innovative, high-performing, and cost-efficient solutions for engineering initiatives across the full stack. As an Engineering Leader at Twitter, she has built and led multiple world-class teams to deliver ad products that were featured in Twitter's shareholder letter, driving millions of dollars in revenue. Her teams are full stack, including backend and client (iOS, Android, web). Virna has extensive experience in leading and delivering Big Data solutions both on-premises and cloud (AWS, GCS) using DevOps. She has a strong background in building innovative full-funnel ad solutions for advertisers, delivering value iteratively with speed using agile principles, lean startup methods, and efficient team structures. In her previous role as Senior Engineering Manager at Spotify, Virna hired, coached, and built high-performance engineering teams. She delivered technical solutions for critical business requirements of calculating royalties and worked closely with financial accountants to gather requirements and deliver results. She also has experience in leading testing of AWS DataLake and microservices, partnering with Data Catalog and Data Quality teams. As Manager of Data Engineer at Capital One, Virna hired, mentored, and developed several teams of Data Engineers and DevOps Engineers. She directed several projects using Agile Execution: CI/CD, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Hadoop on EMR. She also led performance and cost optimization initiatives in AWS DataLake, using Datadog to capture metrics and provide automated recommendations to lower costs. Virna holds a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Applications from IIT. She has a diverse tech stack, including AWS, Android, iOS, Backend, Web, DevOps, Microservices, Senior Software Engineer, Postgres, Data Engineering, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, test, Hadoop, Elastic Search, Jenkins, and ETL. With 23.29 years of relevant experience, Virna is a highly skilled and accomplished Engineering Leader.