Tara Sana Gupta

Overview

Currently at Grab, where I lead real-time systems with a team of 6. Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with Elixir and Go. I read too many books about cities.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Nov 2024 - Present
   Grab · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Moved 86% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped 20 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
2. Principal Engineer

   Apr 2023 - Nov 2024
   NAB · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Led or co-led 22 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
3. Engineering Manager

   Apr 2020 - Apr 2023
   UOB · 3 yr · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 13 a week to 2.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Jul 2017 - Apr 2020
   Gojek · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 6.
   • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
5. Principal Engineer

   Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
   PropertyGuru · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   • Backed 58 founders at pre-seed and seed.

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Education

1. University of Malaya

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   1999 - 2003