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Akshay Gupta
LEAD DATA ENGINEER

Akshay Gupta

IIT Guwahati · B.Tech

Work Experience

MerkleScience

Senior Data Engineer → Lead Data Engineer | 2021–Present

  • 99.99% uptime scalable platform
  • 80% cost reduction via ClickHouse & TigerGraph
  • Kafka + KSQL pipelines (P99 < 1s)

Testbook

Analyst → Senior Data Engineer | 2018–2021

  • Built Data Engineering team
  • Platform contributed 30% revenue

Skills

PythonJavaScalaGo ClickHouseKafkaAirflow AWSGCP

Achievements

Founded Data Engineering at Testbook
MITACS Globalink Research Intern
McM Scholarship

Blog

Understanding Blockchain: The Technology Powering Trust in the Digital Age

04 Jan 2026

In today’s rapidly evolving digital world, blockchain technology has emerged as one of the most transformative innovations of the 21st century. Originally int...

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