Rachit Gupta, a senior technical architect at Guardian Life Insurance, is a skilled enterprise architect who has worked with big companies like Dollar General, Nike, Guardian Life, and Mutual Of Omaha.
He has also been honored as the “Most Visionary Enterprise Architecture Leader – 2025” by CToday Awards. He is known for building smart, scalable systems using AI and cloud technology. Throughout his career, Rachit has helped bring new ideas to life, improved business operations, and saved over $750 million by making systems more efficient and effective.

A Journey of Impact and Innovation

Rachit’s career has been driven by a strong focus on meaningful change and smart solutions. At Dollar General, he led the creation of DG GO!, a mobile self-checkout app that changed how customers shop in-store. His work on the backend and connecting the app to the billing system helped boost sales by $60 million, cut staff needs by 30%, and saved $125 million in running costs. It also made customers happier, improving satisfaction by 40%. He also improved the company’s system for working with suppliers. Using tools like Apache Camel and AWS Lambda, he made inventory handling faster and cut vendor setup time by 40%. This upgrade helped the company save more than $400 million a year by reducing losses and extra labor.

Automation-Driven Excellence

At a leading retail brand, Rachit worked on automating how stock was shared across stores. He built a system that used advanced calculations to predict where products should go. This reduced manual work by 70%, made stock placement 30% more accurate, and supported 40% more product types all while saving $40 million in labor costs every year. At Nike, Rachit built strong and flexible cloud systems for popular apps like Nike Run Club and SNKRS. He used Kafka technology to manage huge amounts of data smoothly and quickly, ensuring the apps worked well even during busy launches around the world.

Current Role at Guardian Life and Other Contributions

At Guardian Life, Rachit is the Solution Architect for GuardianWell™, a digital platform that helps employees access wellness and benefits. The platform is built using microservices and follows strict health data rules (HIPAA-compliant). It handles over 250,000 records a day, serves more than 1 million users, runs 99.98% of the time without issues, and responds to user requests in under 200 milliseconds even at peak times. This has made it much easier for employees to learn about and use their benefits.

Alongside his platform work, Rachit holds a patent titled “Data Processing Device for Real-Time Testing and Validation of Machine Learning Models in CI/CD Pipelines”, highlighting his contributions to AI-integrated DevOps and intelligent automation in enterprise systems.

Guiding Principles and Leadership Values

Rachit leads with a mindset focused on automation, strong technical skills, and constant learning. He prefers guiding through mentorship rather than just giving orders and has helped build successful remote teams. His work includes cutting cloud costs and adding smart monitoring through AI. As a Senior IEEE Member and judge at global tech events, he believes in sharing knowledge and lifting up the tech community.

Recognitions and Industry Outlook

In 2025, Rachit was especially inspired by the Turing Award winners in reinforcement learning, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, and the TIME100 AI Impact Awards all of which highlighted technology being used in powerful and ethical ways. Looking forward, Rachit sees the future in AI-powered systems like platforms that fix themselves, adjust automatically, and run on serverless models. With growing interest in edge computing and multi-cloud setups, he believes the next big shift will be real-time, smarter systems that work faster and cost less.

Advice for Aspiring Professionals

Rachit advises newcomers to start with the basics of Linux, networking, and system design before jumping into tools like Terraform, Python, and CI/CD pipelines. He stresses the importance of learning how systems work instead of just learning tools. “Stay curious and humble,” he says. “Don’t just follow trends, solve real problems, think about the bigger picture, and always connect your work to business needs.”