Shashank Gupta

Shashank Gupta has a diverse work experience spanning multiple companies and roles. Shashank began their career as an Analyst Intern at American Express in 2011. Shashank then worked as a Software Engineer at Zscaler Inc. from 2011 to 2013, focusing on developing and maintaining load balancing and proxy engine side modules for the Zscaler Cloud.

In 2014, Shashank served as a Senior Research Assistant at CA Technologies, where they worked on Apache Cassandra and developed a distributed database management probe for NIMSOFT server.

Shashank then joined CommVault as a Software Development Intern in 2014, working on cache performance improvement for vm restore jobs through NFS. Shashank implemented an LRU-based cache with mutex locks and implemented features for recovery and restart from the last state in case of interruptions.

From 2015 to 2016, Shashank worked as a Software Engineer at EMC, specifically in the Isilon Storage Distributed File Systems team. Shashank primarily focused on the Jobs Management modules on the File System Server for the OneFS distributed FileSystem.

In 2016, Shashank joined Commvault again as a Software Engineer, specifically working in the Windows Server Team on Jobs Management and parallel scheduling framework on Commvault Server.

From 2017 to 2021, Shashank worked at Zscaler as a Staff Software Engineer, primarily focusing on backend infrastructure for machine learning and artificial intelligence on the Zscaler Cloud. Shashank developed feature extraction infrastructure and machine learning algorithms for high-performance on the cloud, processing billions of transactions daily.

In 2022, Shashank worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Arkose Labs before transitioning to their current role as a Staff Software Engineer at Lookout.

Shashank Gupta completed their Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in the years 2007 to 2011. Following that, they pursued a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Computer Science at Stony Brook University from 2012 to 2014. Additionally, Shashank holds certifications as a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) from Red Hat and a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) from Cisco. The exact months and years of obtaining these certifications are not provided.