India
Vipul Gupta is an engineer, documentarian, and community organizer. His work at Balena solves critical bottlenecks in testing operating systems at scale with open-source hardware-in-the-loop pipelines. When he’s not speaking at meetups, he likes to thoroughly read, meticulously document, and continuously automate. For almost a decade, he's played a major role in sustaining developer communities around Python, Linux, and GitHub technologies. He founded ALiAS, mentoring 3,000+ students to kickstart their open-source journey. With the Mixster initiative, he's helping startups build docs that scale. Vipul is the community lead for GitHub GitTogether meetups and growing the OpenHiL community online. Between conferences and code commits, he can be found documenting his backpacking adventures on his blog.
Organizing the biggest GitHub meetup in the city to recap the biggest GitHub Universe ever, all the announcements, all the insights, summarized for all the developers, researchers, product managers, students and engineering leaders using GitHub in their day to day work.
Event organization / 12-20-2025
Educating engineers and product owners at the city's biggest developer conference, DevFest Noida 2025 on GitHub NEXT's efforts with Continuous AI, Agent Hub and Copilot workflows.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 12-06-2025
Got invited to a GitHub Stars panel for share how we kept contributing to community after College and in our jobs with budding members from the GitHub Campus Experts team attending GitHub Universe. Moderated by PJ Metz, Program Manager of Student Communities, GitHub along with Santosh, Corbin, Jesse from GitHub Stars.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 10-26-2025
Biggest 24 hour hackathon conducted in North East, 350 people participated. Invited as a Judge, heard pitches from top 25+ projects built using GitHub, Pages, Copilot, & Spark Mentored projects and provide guidance to enable students on how they could do better presentations.
Hackathon / 10-10-2025
Helping communities at the grassroots level is always the goal. I found myself working closely with Nitya Pandey, GitHub Campus Expert, to help organize VScode Dev Days Lucknow. I met with the team to advise on blockers faced by growing communities on how to work at scale. Met with other community leaders in the city from GDG, ALiAS Lucknow and more to enable more such events from any and all support I could provide.
Event organization / 09-27-2025
GitTogether meetup organized at Microsoft Gurugram office focusing on open-source AR/VR technologies
Event organization / 09-20-2025
“You can’t improve what you can’t measure — but collecting more data isn’t the point. Making it meaningful is.” A blog post from our podcast session on how we are thinking about GitHub Observability at Balena, Vipul’s team manages hundreds of IoT devices, each with its own embedded Linux OS. That creates a unique challenge: every code change needs to be tested on real hardware using “hardware in the loop” pipelines.
Blogpost / 09-11-2025
Part of my Observability in the Wild series, our discussion reinforced a simple truth: observability is not just about collecting logs, metrics, and traces. It’s about clarity, trust, and collaboration in complex systems. If you can't track it, you can't begin to fix it.
Video/Podcast / 09-10-2025
