Kartik Gupta
About
Hi, I'm Kartik Gupta, an AI and backend developer. I love breaking things more than making, because the best I've learnt always came from taking systems apart. I've been working on scalable backend, and Iām now diving deeper into infra and DevOps because I want to understand how great systems run end-to-end. Iām looking for roles where I can learn fast, work with strong engineers, and ship things that actually matter. If you are hiring, let's talk.
Experience
- AI Agent & Backend Engineer at Swiggy (Jan, 2026 - Present)
- Built backend services for AI-agent workflows and an internal alternative to Langfuse, enabling versioning, debugging, and evaluation; used SQS, Kafka, and Redis for async execution and caching.
- Identified redundant LLM invocations and inefficient multi-turn flows, and refactored orchestration logic to reduce unnecessary turns and optimize context usage, lowering execution cost by ~50%.
- Improved response times by restructuring async task execution ā introducing worker pools and better concurrency control ā reducing latency and speeding up complex request turnaround.
- Built internal dev tools for the team.
- Backend and AI Agents developer at Upsurge Labs (Bhindi.io) (July, 2025 - Jan, 2026)
- Engineered, optimized, and maintained 150+ AI agents, building evaluation loops and prompt refinement pipelines that improved factual accuracy and reduced hallucinations.
- Developed and maintained a REST API for internal dashboards and CI/CD pipelines, providing real-time visibility into agent performance and analytics.
Projects
TABLY
Excel runs the world. I added AI automation to eliminate repetitive spreadsheet tasks and let teams focus on insights, not busywork.
faster-docs
Google Docs excels at real-time collaboration, but its performance drops on low-quality networks. I built a collaborative editor powered by WebTransport, offering faster transport and more resilient sync under unstable network conditions. Only if google docs was opensource.
Why did I build thisVeriStream
Forwarded WhatsApp messages often carry unverified claims. We built a real-time misinformation detection system that evaluates the factual accuracy of these messages and flags content meant to induce fear or panic.
Achievements
- 3x Hackathon Winner
- Winner of Truth Tell Hackathon (World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit)
- Gold medalist in IBM ICE day for assistive technology for autism
- Smart India Hackathon 2023 Finalist