Namaste, World! I am
Ayush Gupta
I build things for the web & mobile.
I’m a Frontend Engineer and a passionate photographer.
I solo travel, photograph & craft stories, write blogs and have an eye for design.
Senior Software Engineer at Circle.
01. About Me
Howdy! I’m Ayush Gupta, fondly known as GuptaJi.
I do art & crafts. My art flows through my camera lens, while my craft shines in building performant & delightful web & cross-platform mobile app experiences with frontend engineering.
I am a Senior Software Engineer at Circle, building software that helps businesses use digital dollars and stablecoins safely at scale.
Previously, I led a high-caliber remote mobile team at Leap Wallet, an early stage web3 startup and one of the top-rated wallets in the Cosmos ecosystem, where we focused on true interchain support so users could move across blockchains with confidence.
Here are a few technologies I love working on:
- React
- NextJS
- TypeScript & JavaScript
- React Native & Expo
- GraphQL
- HTML5 & CSS3
02. Fun Facts
I had the opportunity to live with The Untravel Show creators when I was working from Shangarh. In their Shangarh movie, I give a brief interview about my experience of working from mountains.
I can solve a 3x3 rubik’s cube fully, currently in around 65 seconds. I learned it in 10th class when I did a mathematics project on it.
In a React Native competition held by a healthcare company, my team (Prateek and I) once finished in 2nd place worldwide.
In a competition, I once took home 11 ETH. What I did with them is another story!
I’m a Level 7 Google Local Guide with 2.4M+ contribution views, 2M+ of which are on my photos.
As a birthday present for my ex-girlfriend who adored pandas, I once created a Panda GIF Generator web app in 3 hours.
I primarily listen to independent hindi music because I love them. If you have similar taste, visit my music page.
I enjoy creating & designing my Instagram stories, and I’ve occasionally spent more than two hours on a single story. In order to see them, check out my Instagram highlights!
I once created a political Tinder application for voting that featured satirical biographies of politicians. It received a lot of positive feedback on Instagram.
Now that I’ve lived in and independently travelled through Rishikesh, Bir, Dharamkot, Shoja, Shangarh, Goa, etc., I can now consider myself a solo traveller.
I’m also quite interested in designing, in addition to development. I used to read a lot about design, which helped me to hone my eye for it. I’ve received praise on it several times from the design team at my workplace. The logo I created for Scriptified was also my very first!
I enjoy trekking, and when I lived in Bengaluru, I frequently went on night treks (check out my instagram highlights to see them). I have already completed hikes to Raghupur Fort and Triund, to mention a couple. My bucket list still includes places like the Valley of Flowers, Har ki Dun, the Great Lakes of Kashmir, Hemkund Sahib, Kedarnath, and others. Soon!
Over 75 times, people have used one of my photos as their phone wallpaper and shared a screenshot with me. Explore all of them on my ‘wallpapers’ instagram highlight. If you use it, don’t forget to send me a screenshot; I treasure them :)
For a joke I wrote on Twitter, I once received a ₹1 tip through my tip jar on Twitter. Someone else tipped me ₹2 for my art & shitposting, when I posted this story on Instagram. I can now declare with certainty that I have made money off of shitposting!
My first ever tech blog I wrote on Medium back in 2018 has 177K+ views, 97% of which came from google searches. For the keyword “css grid, flexbox,” it used to appear as a featured snippet on Google. The same article was also recommened on the OG CSS Tricks website. Receiving such a response as a newbie in the tech was astounding for me!
03. Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer @ Circle
- Build & scale reliable internet finanicial products that powers Circle Payment Network enabling near-instant, global money movement for financial institutions worldwide, including stablecoins and digital dollars businesses use every day.
- Leverage & build AI-native tooling for the Frontend stack to improve developer productivity, to ship and iterate faster.
- Partnering across engineering, product, and compliance to ship secure, high-quality experiences in a regulated fintech environment.
- Contributing to systems and features with a strong focus on quality, observability, and sustainable engineering practices.
Mobile App Lead @ Leap Wallet
- Spearheaded a high-performing remote mobile team building Leap & Compass Wallet cross-platform mobile apps, achieving exceptional user satisfaction with 4.9 & 4.7 ratings (Google Play/App Store) and growing the user base to 800K+ active users.
- Extensively focused on orchestrating comprehensive mobile performance optimization initiatives, resulting in significant improvements in app speed, stability, and user experience through data-driven production monitoring.
- Delivered transformative performance gains including 90% reduction in chain switching times, optimized home page loading & scroll peformance, streamlined onboarding flow, and optimized core features (stake, swap, send, onboarding, and more) through strategic re-rendering optimization.
- Architected robust performance monitoring infrastructure with platform-specific dashboards tracking critical metrics including warm & cold app startup times, frame rates, stall rates, time to interactive, navigation performance, and custom app-specific KPIs.
- Led development of major feature launches including Stake v2, virtualized home page, BTC integration, swaps referral program, and deep linking support. Implemented significant technical improvements spanning animations, app size optimization, security audit fixes, developer tooling, and systematic bug resolution from multiple feedback channels like sentry, support, socials, partners, and more.
- Established comprehensive analytics dashboards monitoring user engagement, feature adoption, conversion funnels, and custom metrics to drive product & engineering decisions through quantitative insights.
- Owned end-to-end mobile release management across Android & iOS platforms, successfully shipping 40+ production versions within 6 months while effectively navigating App Store review processes and resolving platform-specific challenges.
- Recognized for meticulous attention to detail, data-driven decision making, exceptional communication skills, thorough documentation practices, and consistent ability to deliver high-quality results at pace.
Senior Frontend Engineer @ Razorpay
- Implemented Progressive Canary Analysis & Rollout of our GraphQL server with automated zero-touch rollbacks. It helped to detect issues early with decreased blast radius & confidently ship to production
- Wrote full tech spec of progressive canary analysis & releases of GraphQL server with whole architecture & deployment flows, whose details were loved by many. Deep dived into DevOps Kubernetes infrastructure, implemented 10+ end-to-end deployment pipelines on Spinnaker, created Grafana dashboards while adding canary releases of GraphQL.
- Optimised CI build times of iOS app reducing it by 20% and reduced the app size with it as well.
- Saved ~8m of developer’s time per commit by fixing an issue with deployment of our GraphQL service in stage environment.
- 75% reduction in android build times by making an architectural modification, saving up to crucial 90mins of build hours in a month, for a single developer.
- Led the successful major version migration of apollo-server, NodeJS v18 & Rover CLI which is used by our three client apps. Improved Developer Experience with it by adding a GraphQL Schema Change Summary in every PR.
- Responded to a sensitive security incident with our CI-CD tool in a close span of the incident reported to resolution in just 2 days, for such a complex task.
- Gave a live workshop presentation about making use of our analytics tool Amplitude to various pods in the organisation. Built various dashboards to help my mobile engineering team make more data-driven decisions.
- Wrote full-fledged tech spec for a major architectural re-design of our mobile app & contributed in it’s implementation, which majorly helped in reducing GTM time for Payment Pages & QR Code feature in the app
- Owned the development & release of our app’s new hero payment product Payment Handle end to end which became first-touch transaction product leading by 78.06% compared to numerous other payment products.
- Implemented QR Code as a payment acceptance method in the mobile app from scratch, without any direct involvement of Product & Design.
- Wrote the spec for an Event Delight framework & implemented in the app which got appreciated across leadership & design.
- Won ₹50K bounty in an internal hackathon with a team of four where we built a new mobile application in a week that served all of the requirements the bounty project needed.
- Rolled out and managed various major releases of our mobile app as a Release Champion on both Android & iOS platforms.
- Came up with the idea of in-app quick actions for internal hackathon & developed it, which solves the current pain point of feature discoverability & actions in the app.
React Native Developer @ FirstCry
- Single handedly built Polls feature with multiple poll templates in FirstCry Parenting.
- Optimised homepage render time & performance of Shopping section.
- Implemented universal search in FirstCry Parenting.
- Research & Development on creating an efficient library like App Center to deliver OTA updates to React Native mobile applications.
- Built digital products listing for CPID pages.
- Worked on new features & improvements in FirstCry mobile app.
Programmer Analyst Trainee @ Cognizant
- Polished foundations of Java Full Stack Web Development.
- Scored 100% marks in hands-on full stack web application project during training.
- Cultivated the ability to lead & manage 30+ people being the CR of the batch.
- Worked on a Java based client project using Drools engine and SpringBoot.
- Technologies I worked with included Java, SpringBoot, Drools, Maven, Git, and Oracle SQL.
React Native Developer Intern @ Enappd
- Quickly learned React Native and it’s concepts from the ground up.
- Solely developed an online music streaming app starter template with sublime UI and UX.
- Among the only two interns who got to work on React Native projects despite having no experience in it.
- Mentored 15+ Hybrid App Development Trainees with their projects and problems, out of which one developed a Note taking app with all functionalities under my full supervision.
- Authored articles on web technologies and development which have over 75K reads and 2.3K claps on Medium.
- Enacted Agile Development strategy as the app was tested regularly by testers on every platform and I had to resolve the bugs/issues found with continued development process.
- Grew in an dynamic startup environment,managed project with deadlines of each task using Trello and communicated using Slack.
Ionic Developer @ Dream Animators
- Attained remote development skills and experience, besides college.
- Worked collaboratively on a single app using versioning systems like Git.
- Acquired ability to communicate digitally, manage time & work as a team player
04. Featured Projects
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Featured Project
Atomberg - Raycast Extension
Control your Atomberg smart home appliances directly from Raycast with ease and security. Includes device management, speed control, timer management, and secure authentication.
- Raycast Extension API
- React
- TypeScript
- Tanstack Query
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Featured Project
Scriptified
A blazing fast Progressive Web App built in NextJS and Tailwind CSS. Built for publishing our curated weekly newsletters on JavaScript & React.
- NextJS
- Tailwind CSS
- TypeScript
- Strapi
- React
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Featured Project
Audrix
Online music streaming app starter template with cross-platform tested proficient UI having authentication, storage & real-time database connectivity; sold 110+ times.
- React Native
- React Navigation
- NativeBase
- Firebase
05. Popular Articles
How An App Crash Made Us Build Another App - Story of Scriptified
The behind the scenes of launching & building Scriptified with NextJS and TailwindCSS
How To Play GIF In Your Terminal
A tutorial on playing GIF in your terminal using gif-for-cli in Linux or Mac OS
Beginner’s Guide To CSS Grid And Flexbox
An overview and comparison between CSS Grid and Flexbox layout techniques in CSS.
06. Education
Bachelor of Technology @ Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology
- Branch - Information Technology
- Aggregate - 72.92%
- University - Rajasthan Technical University, Kota
- Medium - English
Senior Secondary Education @ Central Public School
- Percentage - 79.0%
- Board - CBSE
- Stream - Mathematics & Science
- Medium - English
Secondary Eduacation @ Global Public School
- CGPA - 9.8/10
- Board - CBSE
- Medium - English
07. What's Next?
Get In Touch
I’m an email away for opportunities or collaboration, tech discussions, mutual networking or to meet over a coffee.
Curious about my setup? Head over to my uses page.
Like indie music? You’ll definitely love music page.