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Pulkit Gupta
Pulkit Gupta

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Building for Developers, Thinking Like a Product Engineer

My journey at Atlan over the past year

Over the last year, I’ve grown from writing frontend code to fully owning product features that power workspace onboarding workflows and infrastructure scale.


🚀 What I Work On

At Atlan, I contribute to our Internal Developer Portal (IDP) — a platform that helps onboard new customer workspaces, manage infrastructure at scale, and bring cost transparency across teams.

This means building tools for developers — and ensuring they’re reliable, scalable, and easy to use.


💡 From Engineer to Product Thinker

What started as a frontend engineering role soon turned into something much bigger.

I started picking up backend tickets. Then I started thinking about how features connect. Then I started owning entire problems end-to-end — and began thinking like a Product Engineer.

It wasn’t just about building things.

It was about building the right things.


🛠️ Tech I Touched

Daily Stack

  • Go (Backend)
  • Vue.js (Frontend)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Loft
  • Argo CI/CD
  • AWS Cloud Services

🏆 Highlights from the Year

Reduced tenant onboarding time by 30%

By introducing QA automation in our developer onboarding workflow.

Built dynamic tenant scaling (Atlas)

Designed and delivered full-stack support for on-demand tenant scaling inside our IDP.

Improved cost transparency and infra scalability

Always thinking about the bigger picture — not just building features, but building with intention.


🧠 What I Learned

→ Real ownership drives better outcomes

→ Collaboration is about alignment, not just hand-offs

→ Writing good docs is just as important as writing good code


🔮 Looking Forward

I’m still a Software Engineer by title, but I work and think like a Product Engineer.

Next goals:

  • 📦 Deepen my product thinking
  • 💬 Build with more user empathy
  • 🛠️ Solve harder, more meaningful platform problems

🤝 Let’s Connect

If you’re building internal platforms, developer tools, or solving scale challenges, I’d love to hear from you.

💬 Drop me a message on LinkedIn

📁 Check out my portfolio


Thanks for reading! And if you’ve walked a similar path, I would love to hear your learnings too.

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