Sahil Gupta

About Me

I'm the Group Software Development Lead for Cloud Services at Appian i.e. responsible for all development of our cloud infrastructure. Almost all of Appian's production workload is managed and run by my group of engineers.
I manage, support and align 5 autonomous squads (>30 direct and in-direct reports) within Cloud to ensure effort is focused on positive outcomes for our customers, Appian and our engineers.
I lead, build and manage effective teams with high employee satisfaction, low attrition, and continuous staff growth. Regularly receive highest leadership & management ratings via Glint survey results.
Impact driven and versatile business leader who can focuses on delivery and execution on any major business initiatives.
Led software engineering teams as Tech Lead and Engineering Manager.
I also encourage innovation that will increase customer value and technology leverage. My goal is to build the right thing for Appian and our customers.
Completed Appian MBA - an invite-only senior leadership development program for rising managers at Appian
Pursuing a Masters in CS from Georgia Tech (GPA 4.0).

Technology Updates

AWS Certified Professional Architect with advanced cloud computing skills to build highly fault tolerant, cost effective and scalable solutions.
In my spare time, I actively research on and study about Machine Learning and apply it actively at work.
Working with cutting edge technology to automate challenging problems in cloud operations including but not limited to predictive (using Machine Learning) and reactive auto-scaling of web layer, building elastic web layer, monitoring infrastructure health and performance, metrics analysis using data analytics, application deployment, infrastructure and cloud operation automation, etc.
I also work on projects (applications to solve daily problems) by developing software/applications which are scalable, maintainable, and highly available. One such example is ARAMAIS, which is a suite to automate a lot of operations which restaurants perform and gathers metrics to improve performance of their operations significantly. This suite is currently available on mobile but will soon be available on web as well with both types of platforms backed by cloud deployment. If you are interested to know more about this and want me to give you a demo, send me your information by filling this form (this will require completing an NDA if I find your request interesting.

Leadership Updates

Between 2020 to 2021, I was an Engineering Manager for a team of 12 engineers, and managed 6 direct reports. During this time:

Managed team's vision, growth, and roadmap prioritization
Principal recruitment lead and point of contact to manage team's talent acquisition of all levels
Provided technical leadership on key projects
Coached team members and provide support on career development
Earnt UPenn's entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship certification via Coursera to improve my soft skill set in management and understanding long term enterprise success by minimizing risk in this competitive technology industry.

Between 2018 to 2020, I was the Technical Lead for the Shared Infrastructure Squad at Appian Cloud responsible for Web Layer, monitoring, analytics, centralized logging, routing, etc.

As a manager, responsible for growth management and career development of direct reports.
Management of team's backlog, roadmap, prioritization and vision.
Development of several critical features and services.

Technology Skills

MSc Computer Science, Georgia Tech (GPA: 4.0)
BSc Computer Science, Georgia Tech
Certified AWS Professional Solutions Architect
Software - Java, C/C++
Machine Learning Enthusiast
Public GitHub Contributions (Most of my software contributions are proprietary and cannot be shared. I can share more recent projects from my MSc program upon request)
Strong foundations and extensive experience with Networking, Security, Computer Architecture and Algorithms.
Web and Mobile Applications - Android, HTML, CSS, PHP
These are some of the many tools I have learnt during my career. They merely empower us to automate and solve problems. Most important key to computing is growth mindset, attitude, willingness to learn and explore.
I build software and enterprise level applications that are simple to use, beautifully architected such that they are decoupled, scalable, available, maintainable and fault tolerant while ensuring they are highly concurrent in their processing for fast end-user experience.
I develop and bring ideas to reality by leading technology projects which solve day to day problems through automation.

Background

Graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with an MSc in Computer Science and BSc in Computer Engineering.
I am extremely passionate about new technologies and love innovating.
Born and brought up in New Delhi, India. After going to the prestigious school Delhi Public School (one of the largest, and elite school society in India, and worldwide) and watching my sisters go to best universities in the world, I decided to get one of the best education in engineering at Georgia Tech.
Enjoy scuba diving, traveling, taking part in volunteering organizations, photography and meeting new people. You can get to know more about my hobbies in My Hobbies tab on the top of this page.

Values and Principles