Karthik Arjun Gupta

Overview

VP of Engineering at Summit Learning, focused on data pipelines. Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely. Most at home with Airflow and Snowflake.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Dec 2023 - Present
   Summit Learning · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 34% in two quarters.
   • Grew the data platform team from 5 to 27 engineers.
2. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2022 - Dec 2023
   HP · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 4.
   • Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Principal Engineer

   Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
   Cisco · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Previously an operator for 12 years before investing.
4. Principal Engineer

   Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
   Spotify · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Led or co-led 29 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Sit on 7 boards.
5. Staff Data Engineer

   Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
   Salesforce · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Replaced 28 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

1. Virginia Tech

   BS, Electronics and Communication
   2001 - 2005