# Hemesh Gupta — Software Engineer

Canonical website: https://hemeshgupta.com/

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## Identity

- **Name:** Hemesh Gupta
- **Role:** Software Engineer II at Salesforce, Bengaluru
- **Focus:** Backend engineering, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, developer tools, software products
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Email:** hgpt185@gmail.com
- **Education:** BE Computer Science, BITS Pilani (Nov 2020 – Jul 2024), grade 8.5/10

## About

Software Engineer II at Salesforce, Bengaluru, building backend systems for Tableau Licensing Services. Work spans licensing infrastructure, user services, and cloud migrations, with a focus on reliability and scale. Drawn to hard problems: distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and the kind of engineering which leaves an impact. Builds side projects and writes about things encountered along the way.

## Experience

### Salesforce (July 2024 – Present)
- Software Engineer II (Feb 2026 – Present)
- Software Engineer I (July 2024 – Jan 2026)
Started with Tableau Cloud Manager's User Service, building user lifecycle APIs, saga-based sync to Tableau Pods, bulk operations via Step Functions, and license consumption tracking on multi-region DynamoDB. Then moved to Tableau's Licensing team, working across different licensing services to ship activation, lease management, and freemium licensing.

Selected Salesforce engineering work:
- Architected a cloud-native license token provisioning service on Salesforce Hyperforce with sub-100 ms p99 latency.
- Led a zero-downtime migration of enterprise licensing data from legacy AWS infrastructure to Hyperforce.
- Developed licensing backend capabilities supporting over 170,000 freemium users.

### Porter — Software Development Intern (Jan 2024 – Jun 2024)
Part of the Customer Growth & Engagement team. Built backend services powering cashback, referrals, and transactional flows that scaled to production traffic. Ktor, Dagger, clean APIs, and zero P0s across the internship.

### Salesforce — Software Development Intern (May 2023 – Jul 2023)
Built a config drift detection pipeline for Tableau Cloud pods, pulling configs from GitLab repos and S3, diffing against the golden baseline, auto-filing GUS defects, and alerting teams on Slack. Fully automated, zero manual toil.

### Samsung — Software Development Intern (May 2022 – Jul 2022)
Automated a full regression suite using Selenium and Pytest, replacing hours of manual QA effort per cycle. Cut regression turnaround significantly and freed the team to focus on shipping instead of re-testing.

## Education

### Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani)
- **Degree:** Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science — Pilani Campus
- **Period:** Nov 2020 – Jul 2024
- **Grade:** 8.5/10
- Graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, Pilani campus (2020–2024), building a strong foundation in software development, problem-solving, and innovation.

## Skills

- **Languages:** Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C
- **Backend:** Spring Boot, Ktor, REST APIs, DynamoDB (multi-region), AWS Step Functions, saga patterns
- **Frontend:** React, Tailwind CSS
- **Realtime/data:** Socket.io, operational transforms, MongoDB
- **Tools & platforms:** Git, GitLab, S3, Dagger, Slack, Selenium, Pytest, Django, Salesforce Hyperforce, KMS, Vault, Bazel

## Projects

- [Real-Time Collaborative Editor](https://github.com/hgpt185/google-docs-clone) — Google Docs-style editor with real-time multi-user collaboration using Socket.io and operational transforms. TypeScript, React, MongoDB.
- [ERPLAG Compiler](https://github.com/hgpt185/ERPLANG-Compiler) — Complete compiler for ERPLAG in C: lexer, parser, semantic analyzer, and code generator. Written from scratch with no libraries.
- [chotu: URL Shortener](https://github.com/hgpt185/chotu) — URL shortener service built with Spring Boot. Clean REST API and redirect tracking. Java, Spring Boot.
- [ASCII Image Converter](https://github.com/hgpt185/AsciiImage) — Converts any image into ASCII art. CLI tool and Django REST API, deployed with WSGI. Python, Django.
- [Spring Boot E-Commerce API](https://github.com/hgpt185/spring-boot-ecom-proj) — RESTful product catalog and shopping cart API with CRUD, image uploads, and keyword search. Java, Spring Boot.
- [Packet Sniffer](https://github.com/hgpt185/Packet-Sniffer) — Java network tool for capturing and inspecting live traffic, with port scanning and basic traffic analysis.
- [Personal Website](https://github.com/hgpt185/hemesh-gupta-software-engineer) — Original portfolio built with React, Tailwind CSS, and Framer Motion.

## Profiles

- GitHub: https://github.com/hgpt185
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemeshgupta/
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/hemeshgpt
- Email: hgpt185@gmail.com

## Contact

- Email: hgpt185@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemeshgupta/
- Location: Bengaluru, India

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