Shekhar Gupta

Shekhar Gupta is a software engineer at Pepperdata, a company specializing in big data observability and automated optimization.12 He joined Pepperdata in August 2015, immediately after completing his PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data systems from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.13

Gupta's expertise lies in Hadoop frameworks, improving the performance of Hadoop clusters, and optimizing Spark workloads.1 Before joining Pepperdata, he worked on a project at the Xerox PARC Research Center, focusing on improving big data stacks.1

At Pepperdata, Gupta is known for his meticulous approach to writing production-grade code, following strict guidelines for testing and code reviews.1 He values the company's culture of listening to new ideas, regardless of an employee's experience level.1

Gupta is based in Livermore, California, and has over 500 connections on LinkedIn.34 His GitHub profile (username: shkhrgpt) shows that he has 9 repositories available.5