Akhil Gupta

Vice President, Infrastructure, Dropbox

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Akhil Gupta is the Vice President of Infrastructure at Dropbox, responsible for Dropbox's physical and technical infrastructure, technology operations, and network security. In this role, Mr. Gupta and his team ensure that the hundreds of petabytes of data stored in Dropbox are safe and available to Dropbox's users around the world.

Prior to Dropbox, Mr. Gupta oversaw Google's search ads infrastructure and products, where he was responsible for building and scaling the infrastructure that serves ads on Google dot com. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology and a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.