Piyush is an Accomplished Engineering Leader with 10+ years experience in Product Development, Software Engineering, & Team Management. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, designing and executing complex projects, and delivering high- quality products that meet customer needs. Recognized several times for driving innovation, improving processes, & delivering results. Currently, Piyush Gupta is the Chief Product & Technology Officer of Jumping Minds.ai, an early stage Mental Health company that offers an AI-based virtual therapy platform. Piyush is responsible for leading the development of the company's technology strategy and ensuring its alignment with the overall mission and vision of the company. He works closely with the CEO and other key stakeholders to build and lead a world-class technology team that can deliver on the company's goals. Piyush has a wealth of experience in product development and technology strategy, having previously worked in various leadership roles in the technology industry. He is a skilled communicator and collaborator, with a track record of successfully executing product strategies that drive user engagement and business growth. Under Piyush's leadership, Jumping Minds.ai has successfully scaled its platform to 1 Million Users, 2 Million Conversations, and won 10 awards. Piyush played a key role in building a team of around 50 folks and raising around 1.2 Million $ in funding. His innovative product features and agile development methodologies have helped to differentiate the platform from the competition and provide personalized therapy sessions that meet the unique needs of each individual. Piyush is passionate about mental health and technology and is committed to making mental health accessible and affordable to everyone. He stays up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the mental health and AI space, ensuring that Jumping Minds.ai remains at the forefront of innovation in the industry. Prior to that, as a Senior Engineering Leader at Disney+Hotstar, Piyush also helped build India's leading OTT app with a massive impact and reach across the country. As a Full Stack Developer, Piyush has played a critical role in developing the platform's applications at massive scale, enabling a socially rich and engaging user experience without compromising on video quality, delivery, or real-time experience even at high scale. Under Piyush's leadership, his team has built massive scale applications that can compete with Netflix in India and SEA with full fervour. His expertise in developing high-performance applications has enabled Disney+Hotstar to establish itself as a leading player in the OTT space. At Hotstar, he was part of the "Social, Gaming & Sports Team" that was focused on powering socially enriched experiences for Hotstar users. His responsibilities included architecture design and development for cloud applications for Hotstar's scale of 50M concurrent users, product improvements and ideas, leading projects and production delivery, improving the quality bar, and mentoring, team building, and culture development with blogs, brown bags, meet-ups, and architecture design reviews as part of the Architecture Council. He was also responsible for other focus areas like prototyping new ideas, automation, cross-functional and cross-platform development, ownership and leading from the front. Prior to joining Hotstar, Piyush was the Mobile Lead at HyperTrack, where he was responsible for leading the Android charter for HyperTrack single-handedly, mentoring other Android developers over time, and developing and supporting other platforms including iOS, React Native, and Cordova. He also had cross-functional collaboration across product, sales, marketing, and customer success. Before HyperTrack, Piyush was an Sr. Android Developer at Shuttl, where he designed and developed Shuttl's Consumer & Driver Android applications with a focus on performance, modularization, and resilience ensuring Android best practices. His responsibilities included developing hands-on Android expertise, improving code quality, contributing to product development & sprint planning, owning manual/automation testing & release cycles. Piyush began his career at Qualcomm as a Software Engineer, where he did driver level programming for Qualcomm's Modem RF chipsets in C/C++ along with features design & development for upcoming/active projects. His responsibilities included bring-up of new Modem Chipsets, architecture & performance issues, and post-production support for Qualcomm's marquee customers. Piyush also made significant contributions to the tech community through his blogs, open-source contributions, and talks. He contributed to open-source projects like hyperlog-android and live-app-android, which got 500+ stars and trended on several forums like HackerNews, XDA forum, Android forums like Android Weekly, Android Arsenal, and Android United slack community. He gave talks at events like Rootconf 2020 on PubSub - Realtime Messaging Service @ Hotstar. Piyush had a range of skills including programming languages like Golang, Python, Java (Android), Javascript (ReactJS), and Swift, and proficiency in AWS, console, command-line tools, AWS SDKs, SQL (RDS), and NoSQL (DynamoDB). He won several awards and achievements, including the Rockstar Award at Hotstar and the Appreciation Certificate at Qualcomm for impressive performances. In addition to his technical expertise, Piyush has also built an entirely automated localization infrastructure that can be deployed globally at the push of a button. This infrastructure has helped Disney+Hotstar to expand its reach and grow its user base worldwide. Piyush's contributions have played a vital role in the success of Disney+Hotstar, and his leadership has been instrumental in building a team of talented individuals who are passionate about delivering high-quality, engaging content to users across the globe.