I am Vipul Gupta 👋

I am a product owner with 6+ 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

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 shaped who I am

Contributing since 2016, my origin story started 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 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 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

5 days a week, I am the product owner & documentation 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.

My weekends are spent as comms Lead for PyCon India, mentoring college students through ALiAS, a 3000+ members open-source community fostering open-source and organizing meetups for GitHub GitTogether Delhi-NCR community. Currently, scaling up the Open Hardware in the Loop community.