KHUSHI GUPTA

I’m a Software Development Engineer specializing in Node.js, focused on building high-throughput REST APIs, real-time services, and production-grade systems. I prioritize performance, reliability, and correctness, and I’m comfortable navigating trade-offs across database design, API contracts, and system reliability.

In my current role, I architect and maintain concurrent, production workloads with consistent sub-200ms response times. I design idempotent API contracts and retry mechanisms to prevent duplicate operations, and I build event-driven notification pipelines that improved delivery reliability from ~85% to 99.5%—without synchronous blocking.

I also lead reliability improvements by profiling query bottlenecks, optimizing PostgreSQL indexing strategies, and reducing p95 query latency by ~40%. I own end-to-end deployment on AWS through CI/CD pipelines, monitor system health, and resolve production incidents independently with full accountability.

Earlier, I delivered similar impact as an SDE Intern—improving response time by ~20%, reducing downtime by ~30%, and optimizing slow SQL under peak concurrency. I bring the same end-to-end mindset into projects like Automyte, where I shipped an event-driven, idempotent workflow automation system with background workers, failure recovery, and AWS deployment.