Resume · Updated May 2026
Naman Gupta
Backend engineer · Bangalore · Open to senior IC roles (remote US/EU or India)
Summary
Backend engineer at Vegapay shipping credit-card management infrastructure — pipelines, reporting services, and APIs for regulated financial data. BITS Pilani (ECE + Economics). Decade in competitive programming (ICPC qualifier, rank #205) and a parallel discipline in quant research (35+ shipped alphas, global rank 26 on AlphaVerse, top 0.5%). Published research in IJSRCSEIT. MITACS Globalink fellow at Université Laval.
Experience
Vegapay Technology
Jan 2025 — Present
Software Engineer · Bangalore
- Architected and shipped a scalable reporting service end-to-end — system design, data modeling, backend implementation. Drove first-request p99 latency from 150ms down to 30ms (~80% cut) via adaptive service warming and auto-scaling.
- Built the SFTP → Kafka → S3 ingestion pipeline on Chronos. Persists structured metadata to Postgres and raw files to S3 with content-hash idempotency.
- Stood up a QA automation framework that cut regression time by 95% and enabled fully automated production releases.
- Runner-up, Vegapay company-wide hackathon (2025).
MASTH (UltraHive Healthcare)
May — Jul 2022
Chatbot / ML Intern · Remote
- Built CBT-driven conversational modules in DialogFlow for a mental wellness chatbot serving ~1K users.
- Shipped a Flutter front-end with personalized activity tracking into the production Play Store app.
goGlocal
Mar — May 2022
Backend Developer Intern · Remote
- Designed a Postgres schema handling 1.5M+ records with 70% test coverage.
- Shipped REST APIs sustaining 20K+ daily requests at 150ms average latency for an e-commerce marketplace.
Algoix Technologies
Jul — Aug 2021
Full-Stack Developer Intern · Remote
- Built a recruiter–learner–mentor platform from scratch in Django. 20+ data access endpoints serving 5K+ users.
Selected Work
- 2025Vegapay Reporting & Ingestion — Java 21, Spring Boot, Kafka, Chronos, Postgres, S3. ↓80% latency, 30ms p99.
- 2023Cross-Market Alphas— 35+ signals, US + China equities. Sharpe 1.25–2.91, cross-corr < 0.7. Top 0.5% global (rank 26).
- 2023NER for Legal Privacy — SpaCy + NLTK hybrid pipeline. Published in IJSRCSEIT.
Distinctions
- 2023 MITACS Globalink Research Fellowship — Université Laval, Canada
- 2023 ICPC Qualifier — overall rank 205, university rank 2
- 2023 AlphaVerse Premier League — global rank 26 (top 0.5%)
- 2023 WorldQuant International Quant Championship — global rank 302 (Stage 2)
- 2023 Meta Hacker Cup — global rank 1984
- 2022 Google KickStart — global rank 1024
- 2025 Vegapay company-wide hackathon — runner-up
Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
2020 — 2024
B.E. Electronics & Communication Engineering and M.Sc. Economics. Founded the Alphas research group.
Stack
Java 21 · Spring Boot · Kafka · Chronos · PostgreSQL · AWS (S3, EC2) · Python · Django · Flutter · SpaCy · NLTK · TypeScript · React · Next.js
Last updated May 2026Live version · namangupta.me