Karan Gupta

About Karan Gupta

Have worked on complex production grade systems across a variety of disciplines such as backend engineering, modern frontend engineering and data engineering, database migration, cloud migration etc. Having experience with many different tech stacks and domains allows me to be flexible in moving across the company stack and look at problems from a wholistic perspective and come up with ingenious solutions.At the moment trying to make life easier for data analysts and data engineers and help them do their best work by building a cohesive and friendly data platform around Databricks that manages common headaches and frees up data analysts to focus on extracting value out of the data. Platform development work is focused on- Data catalogging- Governance and access management- Ingestion framework- Data consumption for external users- Performance optimization- System integrationsDisclaimer: All opinions are my personal opinions especially the ones on my blog

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer (Associate Director)

   UBS

   Mar 2025 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Building a Modern Data platform by pairing the Databricks stack (PySpark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) with Spring Boot REST APIs and Gitlab CI / CD for Data Scientists & Analysts in the realm of Supply chain, Real estate and Work experience. Focused on using simple and low level abstractions to solve common problems faced in this arena.Charter- Slow is smooth; smooth is fast- Developer experience over ego trips- Do NOT break user space

Education

• Delhi College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Mathematics and Computing

  2015 — 2019

• Sardar Patel Vidyalaya

  CBSE 10+2, Science

  2001 — 2015