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...