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Pankaj Gupta

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, data infrastructure, and cybersecurity

QualysInstitute of Engineering and Technology, LucknowSan Ramon, CA12 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks Remote

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Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on experience building and scaling high-throughput platform infrastructure, including a Qualys core data platform using Kafka, Cassandra, OpenSearch, Ceph, and API gateways. He combines architecture depth with people leadership, and has led complex cross-team initiatives such as rolling out a Kubernetes-based container platform across 20 application teams using a phased migration strategy.

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Key Strengths

  • Architected and delivered large-scale data platforms at Qualys
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems and infrastructure scalability
  • Hands-on technical leadership across architecture, implementation, and production delivery
  • Performance optimization and cost-conscious platform design
  • High-availability and disaster recovery planning
  • Cross-team platform rollout leadership across 20 application teams
  • Phased modernization approach that avoided big-bang migration risk
  • Data-driven engineering management with code review and architecture review cadences
  • Collaborative coaching and structured performance improvement for managers
  • Startup product prioritization experience balancing customer impact, resources, and cost

Reference Highlights

Strongly Recommended
  • deep knowledge of distributed systems
  • strong scalability expertise
  • high-quality implementation
  • architectural thinking
  • thorough code reviews
  • hands-on technical leadership
  • reliable
  • proactive
  • strong mentoring of junior engineers
  • rational decision-making
  • able to analyze pros and cons of design decisions
  • brings teams together
  • goes above and beyond
  • effective at validating ideas through prototypes
  • customer-focused roadmap contribution
  • strong project organization and estimation
  • continuous delivery mindset
  • contributed to a business-critical system
  • helped enable processing of billions of metrics per minute
  • contributed to capabilities that were a key factor in Cisco's acquisition of AppDynamics

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Experience

Sr. Vice President, Head of Platform & AI InfrastructureQualys · Jan 2019 – Present
Senior Manager, R&D – Cloud & Platform EngineeringVMware · Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Director, Software Engineering (IoT & Data Platforms)Ayla Networks · Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
Principal EngineerAppDynamics · Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

Education

Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknowbachelor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Awards

  • Patent 9886337: Quorum-based distributed anomaly detection and repair using distributed computing by stateless processes
  • Patent 10176069: Quorum-based aggregator detection and repair
  • Patent 10944655: Data verification based upgrades in time-series systems
  • Patent 11044764: Roaming of a device between stationary and mobile devices

Skills

LangGraphLangChainChromaDBRetrieval-Augmented GenerationMLOpsMachine LearningCybersecurityVector DatabasesAWSAnomaly detectionPyTorchTensorFlowKubernetesAPI gatewayperformance tuning

Languages

English

Publications

4 publications

Distributed anomaly detectionDistributed computingTime-series systemsData verificationDevice roamingAutonomous agent reliability

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Pankaj GuptaExecutive engineering leader specializing in AI, data infrastructure, and cybersecurity