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Shourya GuptaSG

Shourya Gupta

Développeur Backend | Python | Golang | Scraping

€450/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Shourya

Software engineer who loves building backends and services that scale. Over the last 8 years I've worked as CTO for multiple startups across different domains owning the complete backend.

I specialize in:

FastAPI and Go backend development
• High-performance REST APIs
Web scraping and anti-bot bypass systems
Async Python systems
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis
• Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Setting up dockerized deployments and CI/CD
Real-time analytics and data pipelines

If you are looking for a serious backend engineer for your product, lets talk.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Mercor
    Software Engineer
    TECH
    January 2026 - Today (5 months)
    San Francisco, United States
    • Built Go and Python systems that modeled real-world engineering workflows for use in advanced LLM training.
    • Created multi-turn conversational datasets by simulating realistic developer–AI interactions.
    • Reviewed and corrected LLM generated code, ensuring correctness, security, and best engineering practices.
    • Identified weaknesses in LLM responses and produced corrective feedback loops to improve model behavior.
    • Refactored large open-source codebases for performance, improving their suitability as training data.
    Golang Python LLM Back-End development
  • Slayhop
    Lead Software Engineer (CTO – Startup Role)
    SOCIAL NETWORKS
    February 2023 - May 2025 (2 years and 3 months)
    Las Vegas, United States
    • Led backend engineering and system design of the platform helping TikTok creators grow with personalized content recommendations and track their growth by providing detailed analytics.
    • Developed event-driven FastAPI services using RabbitMQ and Redis, across analytics, recommendations, notifications, search, authentication (JWT and OAuth 2.0)
    • Built a payments and subscription system, integrated NMI payment gateway, and merchant APIs.
    • Implemented Redis caching to cut API latency by 60% and pub/sub to power real-time analytics via SSE.
    • Optimized MongoDB schemas and improved query performance by almost 40% by adding compound indexes, reducing document size and also set up read replicas for high read throughput.
    • Implemented Pydantic models to enforce data validation and consistency between request/response schemas.
    • Built a Qdrant-based recommender for 50M+ videos, serving personalized content suggestions to creators.
    • Designed data mining infrastructure processing 1M+ TikTok profiles daily using Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, with retries, logging, and monitoring via Flower.
    • Set up dockerization and CI/CD with Github Actions, reducing deployment time by 80%.
    • Integrated monitoring and observability using ELK and BetterStack, reducing downtime by 70%.
    FastAPI Web Scraping React.js MongoDB Redis
  • Upwork
    Software Engineer & Consultant
    February 2020 - Today (6 years and 4 months)
    • Created 1000+ custom web scrapers across e-commerce, fashion, travel, real estate, marketplaces, and social media platforms for 200+ diverse clients, achieving 98% client satisfaction rate
    • Built web dashboards using React to visualize scraped data for clients, featuring trend analysis charts, and exportable reports, enabling stakeholders to monitor business metrics and make data-driven decisions
    • Developed price monitoring system for Amazon using Playwright, capable of tracking 100K+ products daily
    • Built robust ETL data pipelines using Pandas and custom validation Python scripts
    • Built crawlers for social media websites such as Instagram and X (Twitter) for extracting targeted URLs while maintaining 100% platform compliance
    • Designed distributed task queue systems using Celery framework and RabbitMQ with intelligent worker management for horizontal scalability and fault tolerance across data centers, handling 10M+ tasks daily
    • Successfully reverse-engineered 150+ complex APIs and implemented advanced bot protection bypass techniques including CAPTCHA solving using Tesseract and OpenCV, browser fingerprinting, custom headers, cookies implementation, and session management
    • Deployed comprehensive monitoring using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK Stack) for real-time system health and performance tracking
    Python FastAPI Web Scraping React.js MongoDB

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Education

  • Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
    Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
    2019
    Computer Science

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