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Nishant Gupta

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Angel Investor at Investor
📍 Austin, Texas, United States

Nishant is the Head of Engineering for Onchain Financial Products at Coinbase, bringing 14 years of experience in fintech and crypto. He specializes in building high-performing teams and scaling complex products like staking and digital asset payouts. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Outside of his core role, Nishant is an active angel investor, personally backing early-stage founders who are building in the fintech, onchain, and health-tech sectors. He is passionate about connecting with and supporting new builders and operators in these spaces.

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Current Role
Angel Investor
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
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Onchain Financial Products
As the Head of Onchain Financial Products, he leads engineering for Coinbase's retail DeFi, lending, and smart contract wallet offerings.
Scaling Infrastructure
He authored a blog post on rebuilding Coinbase's payout systems to process over 1 billion transactions a year, showcasing his focus on high-throughput architecture.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Angel Investor
Investor
2-2024
Head of Engineering, Onchain Financial Products
Coinbase
10-2021 - 2-2024
Engineering Manager
Coinbase
2-2019 - 10-2021
Head of Strategic Architecture( Sr Engineering Manager)
Rocket
6-2016 - 2-2019
Engineering Manager
Rocket
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Education
8-2007 - 8-2008
Assistantship
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2004 - 2007
B.Tech
The L N Mittal Institute of Information and Technology
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