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Atul Gupta

A passionate techie who loves building scalable systems, empowering high-performing teams, and bridging the gap between deep tech and business impact.

Java Go Python Kotlin AWS Spring Boot Kubernetes System Design
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Background & Philosophy

I'm a techie at heart with a strong foundation in software engineering and a passion for building things that scale. My journey — from writing production code in Java, Go, and Python to leading cross-functional engineering teams — has shaped a philosophy centred on architectural excellence, developer velocity, and high-impact delivery.

An alumnus of NIT Durgapur, I bring deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and machine learning. I'm passionate about building systems that scale — both technically and organizationally — and about mentoring engineers who want to push boundaries.

When I'm not architecting systems or reviewing code, you'll find me exploring the intersection of AI/NLP and FinTech, writing about engineering leadership, or contributing to open-source projects.

Skills & Technologies

A curated set of tools, languages, and frameworks I work with daily.

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Backend & Systems

JavaSpring BootGoPythonKotlin MicroservicesREST APIsgRPCDistributed Systems
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Cloud & DevOps

AWSDockerKubernetesCI/CD TerraformGitHub ActionsGrafanaPrometheus
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Databases & Data

PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticSearch KafkaDynamoDBSQL
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Tools & Practices

GitJMeterIntelliJPostman JiraConfluenceDatadogSonarQube
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Leadership & Practices

Team BuildingSystem DesignCode ReviewsAgile / Scrum MentoringTech StrategyIncident ManagementOKRs

Featured Projects

Systems and tools I've built or led — from validation engines to developer utilities.

VKYC AI Platform

End-to-end Video KYC platform with 4 polyglot microservices (NestJS, Go, Python, FastAPI) and 4 frontend apps. Features a 19-state lifecycle engine, WebRTC SFU via Mediasoup, 7-layer fraud shield, live Whisper STT co-pilot, and 98.7% OCR accuracy on Indian documents.

📈 Automated 80% of KYC verifications

NestJSGoPythonWebRTCDeepFaceRedis Streams

Scalet

Real-time team communication platform built with a Go backend and React 18 frontend. Features WebSocket hub/client model with clustering, workspace isolation at SQL level, glassmorphism UI with Framer Motion physics, and a pluggable preference engine.

📈 Designed for thousands, scales to millions

GoReactWebSocketPostgreSQLRedis

Simulation

Universal dynamic mock service platform. Smart policy builder with conditional routing (regex, JSONPath), response latency simulation, stateful sequences, transparent proxy for unmocked routes, and real-time analytics. React bundled into a unified Spring Boot JAR.

📈 Eliminated external mock dependencies

Java 17Spring BootReactAWS SQSMonaco Editor

Experience & Education

Oct 2025 — Present

Engineering Manager

Credit Saison India

Leading high-impact engineering teams building scalable lending platforms. Driving architectural strategy, team growth, and cross-functional delivery in the FinTech space.

Oct 2024 — Oct 2025

Associate Engineering Manager

Credit Saison India

Managed core services and validation engines. Bridged technical design with delivery excellence, mentoring IC engineers and driving system reliability improvements.

Apr 2024 — Oct 2024

Staff Engineer

Credit Saison India

Owned critical platform architecture decisions. Led design and implementation of high-throughput validation engines and scalable microservices powering the lending pipeline.

Apr 2023 — Apr 2024

Lead Software Engineer

Credit Saison India

Led backend engineering for core FinTech products. Designed distributed systems, drove code quality initiatives, and mentored junior engineers.

Jun 2021 — Apr 2023

Senior Software Engineer

Credit Saison India

Built and scaled backend services for digital lending. Introduced Go-based microservices for performance-critical workloads and established CI/CD pipelines.

Jul 2018 — Jun 2021

Software Engineer

Altisource

Designed and developed enterprise-scale software solutions for the real estate and mortgage industry. Built distributed systems handling millions of transactions.

B.Tech — NIT Durgapur

Education

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

Foundation in computer science and engineering principles. Active participant in coding competitions and technical communities.

Technical Writing

Thoughts on engineering, leadership, and the tech I work with.

What I'm Working On

A snapshot of where my energy is going right now.

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Scaling the Lending Platform

Leading architecture decisions for the next-gen lending pipeline at Credit Saison — targeting 10x throughput with zero-downtime migrations.

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AI-Powered Document Processing

Exploring LLM-based approaches for financial document understanding — going beyond traditional NER into contextual reasoning.

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Writing & Mentoring

Publishing technical articles on system design and engineering leadership. Mentoring senior engineers preparing for the IC-to-EM transition.

Let's Connect

Whether you want to discuss engineering challenges, leadership insights, or just say hello — I'd love to hear from you.

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