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Meenakshi Gupta

@meenakshigupta1

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Senior engineering manager leading AWS microservices and data platforms for measurable performance gains.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead teams building AWS cloud-native backend and data platforms, owning architecture and delivery governance. I want to modernize legacy systems, improve performance and cost, and create engineering standards that scale with the organization.

I’m an engineering leader with 13+ years designing and scaling Java and Spring Boot applications across AWS cloud-native microservices and distributed systems. I focus on reliability, scalability, and architecture that keeps delivery predictable.

Currently, I lead 25+ engineers across five backend and data-platform teams, while owning architecture, technical strategy, engineering standards, and delivery governance. I drive modernization from legacy monoliths to AWS microservices with standardized deployment, monitoring, dashboards, and operational controls.

My work consistently delivers measurable outcomes—$1.9M annual AWS cloud savings, 95% runtime reduction, and petabyte-scale processing capabilities. I’ve also streamlined critical workflows from 5 hours to 15 minutes by building automation and observability, and improving runtime performance by 40% with better engineering efficiency.

I’m deliberate about engineering excellence: system design, performance engineering, resilience, TDD, and disciplined code reviews. I bring a platform mindset that strengthens secure AWS integrations, FinOps governance, and high-volume ingestion pipelines to accelerate insight delivery from months to minutes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Engineering Manager

Current

Nielsen

Aug 2024 - Present (2 years)

Leads an engineering organization of 25+ engineers across backend and data-platform teams, owning architecture, technical strategy, planning, and execution governance. Modernizes legacy monoliths to AWS cloud-native microservices and designed petabyte-scale real-time processing and automation/observability to reduce critical workflows from 5 hours to 15 minutes.

AWS Cloud Native Event Driven Architecture Kubernetes CI CD Infrastructure as Code Observability Monitoring Platform Governance FinOps

Senior Technical Lead

Paytm

Jul 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years 1 month)

Led and coached 10+ engineers delivering core financial backend services and cloud-native platform capabilities. Architected Java and Spring Boot microservices, introduced Spark/EMR/EventBridge/Fargate for scalability and resilience, and owned end-to-end service design through production delivery.

Java Spring Boot Microservices Spark EMR EventBridge AWS Fargate Service Design SDLC

Software Development Engineer-3

PayPal

Jan 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Led engineers responsible for mission-critical checkout and payment backend systems focused on correctness, availability, and maintainability. Improved software quality through engineering standards and design/code reviews and established a technical debt program to reduce developer toil.

Engineering Standards Development Design Reviews Code Review Technical Debt Management SDLC

Software Development Engineer-2

Expedia Group

Apr 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 8 months)

Optimized high-volume ingestion pipelines to reduce processing time from 3 hours to 1 hour and designed secure AWS cross-account integrations for shared platform services. Implemented secure networking and cloud infrastructure practices to support reliable backend and data-platform operations.

AWS Secure Cross Account Integration Cloud Infrastructure Backend Operations

Senior Software Engineer

MakeMyTrip

Apr 2017 - Mar 2018 (11 months)

Developed distributed backend capabilities for pricing prediction supporting a core travel-platform use case. Worked on backend systems for data-driven travel pricing functionality.

Distributed Backend Systems Price Prediction Backend Development

Senior Consultant

hCentive Technologies

Jan 2013 - Nov 2014 (1 year 10 months)

Developed Java-based healthcare rules-engine modules using test-driven development and maintainable object-oriented design practices. Built components for healthcare domain rule processing with a focus on maintainability and test coverage.

Java Healthcare Rules Engine Test Driven Development Object Oriented Design Modules

Associate Module Lead

Adception Infotech

Apr 2012 - Jan 2013 (9 months)

Built and scaled a startup web platform integrating payment workflows and search optimization capabilities. Led module-level efforts to deliver platform functionality for payments and search.

Search Optimization Scaling

Software Engineer

CPA Global

Dec 2010 - Apr 2012 (1 year 4 months)

Developed Java application modules and built advanced SQL reporting solutions for enterprise users. Delivered backend application functionality and reporting capabilities using SQL.

Java SQL Enterprise Reporting