Akhil Gupta

Akhil Gupta leads engineering for Databricks AI, where he works on infrastructure for training and serving machine-learning models. He previously led engineering and enterprise teams at Dropbox and was a principal engineer at Google, working on search-ad infrastructure. He co-founded Rubicon, whose team joined Databricks to build storage systems for AI.

Career

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Based in: San Francisco
Elsewhere

Databricks

Jun 2023 — Present

VP of Engineering, Databricks AI

Rubicon

May 2021 — May 2023

CEO and Co-Founder

Dropbox

General Manager and VP of Enterprise
Aug 2019 — Dec 2020
Vice President Of Engineering
Aug 2015 — Aug 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
Head of Infrastructure
Jun 2012 — Jul 2015
San Francisco, California, United States

Google

Feb 2005 — May 2012

Principal Engineer

University of Maryland

Master's studies in software

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)

Bachelor's studies in software

Products & media

dropbox.tech

Scaling to exabytes and beyond

Akhil’s account of building Dropbox’s custom storage infrastructure explains the engineering choices behind a migration at exabyte scale.

Writing

range.co

Navigating uncertainty as an engineering leader

A written companion to Akhil’s conversation with Jean Hsu on asking for help, building a mentor network, and moving from engineering leadership to cross-functional work.

Writing