SAHIL GUPTA

About Me

I am the Director and Group Lead for Agentic AI at Appian. We are baking Agentic AI patterns across the Appian Platform to bring AI to work. Agent Studio will be made generally available soon for all enterprises to adopt.
I led and developed the infrastructure, services and best practices for AI Assisted Software Development at scale using Amazon Q Developer and Kiro. In just 4 months, I developed it from a prototype to full rollout to 650 engineers & PMs (software, quality, UX). It is actively used by all engineers for all stages of software development, leading to significant productivity boost per team (varying from 5%-40%).
Completed my MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech 🎓, specializing in Machine Learning & AI 🤖 and Computing Systems 💻.
Achieved AWS Certified Professional Architect with advanced cloud computing skills to build highly fault tolerant, cost effective and scalable solutions.
I have built and led multiple teams from scratch. I was one of the first/early engineers 🧑‍💻 in our Cloud Platform team ☁️ in 2014. From 2022-2023, I led the delivery and migration of our Cloud offering from a monolithic/hub-spoke Cloud architecture to a Cloud Native architecture 🌐.
At work, my teams and I ensure that all of Appian's services remain always available 🌟, accurately serve user requests 🎯, secure all transactions 🔐, and perform optimally 🏅.
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

Technology Updates

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.

Leadership Updates
2024: I was the Director and Group Lead for the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) group at Appian 🚀, responsible for product security 🔒, performance ⚡, reliability 🛠️, and availability. My group consists of 5 teams 👥, totaling 43 direct reports, 5 managers 👔, and a group of 46 members.

2021-2023: I was the Director and 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 were managed and run by my group of engineers.

2020-2021: 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

Cloud Expert with 10 years of experience. Certified AWS Professional Solutions Architect (highest level).
Machine Learning and AI expert.
MSc. Computer Science, Georgia Tech (GPA: 4.0) in Machine Learning and AI
BSc. Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
Software - Python, Java, C/C++/C#
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 Application development for 4 years - 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.
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