I am Vipul Gupta 👋

I am a product owner with 7+ years of niche expertise in building hard-tech applications, scaling open-source communities and leading developer education efforts.

My diverse experience comes from wearing multiple hats at startups, taking ownership in uncertainty and solving complex problems with first principles thinking. I am a generalist, excelling in full stack development, product management, release engineering, DevOps, documentation, developer education, community management, and growth.

With each pivot in my career, I have delivered my best work from taking on new challenges, embracing the uncertainty, and excelling against the odds.

Technical Expertise: Scaling from 0 to 1 to 100

As a skilled operator, my core engineering experience lies in building highly scalable, reliable applications with Node.js/TypeScript/Python for resource-constrained environments. I built and maintained the first-ever open-source Hardware in the Loop system for a leading IoT fleet management company.

While mastering hardware, firmware, and operating systems during this stint, I also created a fully automated generative documentation system before LLMs became mainstream, saved millions of dollars in cloud & engineering costs through strategic projects, and presented my learnings (and mistakes too) at major international conferences as a speaker.

Open Source Leader: GitHub Star ⭐

Contributing since 2016, my origin story starts with open-source. I initially aspired to be an architect in urban planning, but fell in love with the idea of a community coming together on a grassroots level to build software — for everyone, for free. I've collaborated with the best minds in the industry through Mozilla Festival, HackMIT, Google Summer of Code, AMA Mentorship program & Google Code-in. I was recognized as a GitHub Star in July 2025 for my contributions to the online and offline open-source communities.

I bring a strong sense of ownership with a unique blend of "firestarter" energy to any collective I join. My guiding principle is eliminating problems, not just continually solving them. Working remotely for over 8 years, I have driven teams to achieve measurable results in every organization I've been part of.

Present day

I am the Senior Software Engineer & Developer Education lead at Balena. I also run Mixster, an initiative to "right" the docs, build scalable content pipelines, and do friction logging for startups and organizations. I'm always exploring new challenges at the intersection of product, people, and code.

On the weekend, I am the community lead for GitTogether Delhi-NCR community and scaling up the Open Hardware in the Loop community. My weekends are split volunteering for PyCon India as comms lead, mentoring college students through ALiAS, a 3000+ early-career developer community focused on ethical open-source contributions. Previously, I was the lead organizer for PyDelhi and iLuGD.