Kartikaya Gupta

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[ This resumé was last updated in August 2022 ]

Summary

Excited about building platforms, services, and systems to enable great products
Significant experience with C++, Rust, Java, Bash, Kotlin, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and many other languages
Over 10 years of experience working remotely and in globally distributed teams
Extremely comfortable with async communication and working in the open-source world

Work Experience

Cash App - Remote

Software Engineer, CloudPlat :: Developer Experience (Jan '21 - current)
- Developed expertise in the Gradle build system and supported hundreds of developers and repositories with build issues and build time optimizations
- Maintained and built out tooling to aid product development in a Kotlin polyrepo environment deploying to Kubernetes

Mozilla Corporation - Toronto, Ontario and Remote

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Graphics Team	(Mar '18 - Nov '20)
Software Engineer, Platform Graphics Team	(Oct '13 - Feb '18)
Software Engineer, Mobile Platform Team	(Oct '11 - Sep '13)

Architected and implemented many key features of the Gecko rendering engine's "Asynchronous Panning and Zooming" module; official module owner
Worked on significant portions of code integration, infrastructure, and tooling for bringing the Rust-based WebRender graphics engine to Firefox
Helped fix myriad Firefox infrastructure, build system, and product regressions
Inherited and continued development on Searchfox, the primary source code browser for the Firefox code base, mostly in my spare time
Contributed to many upstream open source projects (e.g. pdf.js, git2-rs) across a variety of languages and ecosystems as needed

Research in Motion, Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario

Software Developer, Browser Development (Jun '07 - Jun '10)
- Architected the standards-compliant Mango rendering engine for the BlackBerry browser (shipped on BlackBerry OS 4.6 - 5.0)
- Implemented various components of the Mango engine, including the DOM, parsers, and Javascript bindings

Co-ops and Internships

Software DeveloperSlipStream Data, Inc. - Waterloo, Ontario(Sep - Dec '06)
Software Engineer, AdWords FrontendGoogle Inc. - Mountain View, California(Jan - Apr '06)
Software DeveloperSlipStream Data, Inc. - Waterloo, Ontario(May - Aug '05)
Software Developer, J9 Virtual MachineIBM Canada, Ltd. - Ottawa, Ontario(Sep - Dec '04)
Junior Software Developer, Systems GroupResearch In Motion, Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario(Jan - Apr '04)
Junior Software Developer, Systems GroupResearch In Motion, Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario(May - Aug '03)

Selected Personal Projects

Creator and maintainer of various Rust crates, including the popular mailparse crate
Wrote multiple tools for personal use in a Java monorepo, including a personal finance tracker, password manager, and encrypted file backup system
Using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Perl, PHP, Rust, and SQL on a constantly-evolving personal information management system including a webmail interface, address book, and calendar

Formal Education

Master of Mathematics (Research Paper Option) in Computer Science (Networking and Distributed Systems Group), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Sep '10 - Aug '11
Bachelor of Software Engineering in Honours Co-op Software Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Sep '02 - Jun '07. Graduated with distinction on Dean's Honour List with cumulative average of 90.8%
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International School Manila, Makati, the Philippines, Jun '02. Graduated with 3.95/4.0 unweighted GPA and 41/45 points on the IB diploma

Selected Activities and Interests

Working with management company and other board members to address owner and resident concerns

Member of Ambitious City Toastmasters Club (Apr '14 - Sep '16)
- Completed all requirements for the Competent Communicator and Competent Leader training manuals
- Served as VP of Public Relations and Seargent-at-Arms
Travel: lived in 9 countries; traveled extensively to over 25 countries