Utkarsh Dixit

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built data engineering team from scratch.
  • Achieved 99.95% uptime for critical services.
  • Secured $2M infrastructure investment through strategic presentations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI/ML infrastructure expert with strong platform engineering capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Platform EngineeringFinopsData EngineeringDevopsAi/ml InfrastructureCloud ArchitecturePlatform ReliabilityCost OptimizationQuality EngineeringApi Automation

Other Skills

API TestingAWSAWS EKSAgile MethodologiesApache BeamApache SparkAutomated Software TestingBigQueryBug TrackingCost AttributionData AnalyticsDatadogDataflowDockerEKS

About

I build engineering teams and cloud platforms that scale. Over the past 12+ years, I've gone from writing Selenium tests to leading platform engineering initiatives supporting $400M+ in annual recurring revenue. My journey has taught me that the best infrastructure is invisibleโ€”it just works. ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œ ๐——๐—ผ I specialize in three areas: ๐Ÿ—๏ธ ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด - Built Internal Developer Platforms reducing deployment time from weeks to days - Led DevOps transformation across 150+ engineers (weekly โ†’ daily releases) - Architected multi-cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP ๐Ÿค– ๐—”๐—œ/๐— ๐—Ÿ ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ - Designed MLOps platforms supporting 50+ LLM models (2M+ daily requests) - Improved GPU utilization from 45% to 82% through smart autoscaling - Built end-to-end pipelines from data ingestion to model deployment ๐Ÿ’ฐ ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ข๐—ฝ๐˜€ & ๐—–๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป - Reduced cloud costs by 32% ($2.4M annually) without performance loss - Implemented chargeback models and real-time cost attribution - Built culture of cost awareness across engineering teams ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—œ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜ โœ… Built data engineering function from 0โ†’7 engineers โœ… Secured $2M infrastructure investment through ROI presentations to C-suite โœ… Achieved 99.95% uptime protecting $400M+ ARR โœ… Migrated 800TB+ data across clouds with zero downtime โœ… Reduced P1 incidents by 50% through SRE practices ๐— ๐˜† ๐—”๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต I believe great engineering is about: - Solving business problems, not just technical ones - Building systems that empower other engineers - Making data-driven decisions (metrics > opinions) - Creating cultures of ownership and continuous improvement ๐—–๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—น๐˜† ๐Ÿ“š Pursuing: GCP Professional Data Engineer & AWS Solutions Architect certifications ๐ŸŽฏ Exploring: AI governance frameworks and platform engineering best practices ๐Ÿ’ก Learning: How to scale engineering organizations without losing velocity ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐˜'๐˜€ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ I'm always interested in: - Platform engineering and developer experience challenges - FinOps strategies that actually work - AI/ML infrastructure at scale - Engineering leadership and team building Open to conversations about consulting, speaking opportunities, or just geeking out about infrastructure. ๐Ÿ“ง utkarshdixit6@gmail.com ๐Ÿ”— linkedin.com/in/utkarshdixit6 #PlatformEngineering #CloudInfrastructure #AIMLOps #FinOps #EngineeringLeadership

Experience

Telus digital ai data solutions

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 11 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ยท Hybrid

  • Leading platform engineering and data infrastructure initiatives supporting $400M+ ARR.
  • ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€:
  • ๐Ÿ—๏ธ Built data engineering team from 0โ†’7 engineers, establishing function for first time
  • Architected ETL pipelines processing 500M+ daily records
  • Reduced data latency from 4 hours to 15 minutes
  • Tech: Apache Beam, Dataflow, BigQuery, Kafka
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Implemented FinOps framework reducing GCP spend 28% ($1.8M annually)
  • Automated cost attribution across 40+ projects
  • Built real-time chargeback reporting dashboards
  • Established culture of cost awareness
  • ๐Ÿš€ Led DevOps transformation across 150+ engineers
  • Increased deployment frequency: weekly โ†’ daily
  • Reduced MTTR by 65%
  • Achieved 99.9% SLA across critical services
  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Built Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
  • Reduced service onboarding: 1 week โ†’ 2 days
  • Improved developer satisfaction 45%
  • Improved developer productivity 30%
  • Self-service infrastructure provisioning
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Presented quarterly roadmaps to C-suite
  • Secured $2M infrastructure investment
  • Aligned technical priorities with business goals
  • Developed 18-month platform engineering strategy
  • ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ: GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Apache Beam, Dataflow, BigQuery, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog
GCPKubernetesTerraformApache BeamDataflowBigQuery+5

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2024 โ€“ Present ยท 1 yr 11 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ยท Hybrid

  • Led AI/ML platform development and multi-cloud infrastructure for LLM-based products.
  • ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€:
  • ๐Ÿค– Built MLOps platform supporting 50+ LLM models
  • Serving 2M+ daily inference requests
  • Achieved 99.95% uptime
  • Implemented model monitoring and governance
  • โšก Optimized GPU infrastructure
  • Improved utilization: 45% โ†’ 82%
  • Reduced inference costs $180K quarterly
  • Implemented autoscaling and GPU time-slicing
  • Tech: EKS, Karpenter, NVIDIA GPUs
  • โ˜๏ธ Engineered multi-account AWS architecture
  • Reduced provisioning time 60% (5 days โ†’ 2 days)
  • Achieved 32% cost savings ($2.4M annually)
  • Built automated resource tagging and governance
  • Tech: Terraform, AWS Organizations, Control Tower
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Built FinOps monitoring framework
  • Real-time visibility into $8M+ annual cloud spend
  • Automated chargeback reporting across 60+ services
  • Cost-per-service attribution
  • ๐Ÿ” Architected secure multi-cloud data transfer
  • Migrated 800TB+ with zero downtime
  • Supported $10-15M ARR initiative
  • Maintained SOC2/GDPR compliance
  • Tech: AWS DataSync, VPC Peering
  • ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ: AWS, EKS, Terraform, Karpenter, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana
AWSEKSTerraformKarpenterMLflowKubernetes+5

Staff Engineer

May 2023 โ€“ Apr 2024 ยท 11 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ยท Hybrid

  • Drove platform reliability, security, and cost optimization protecting $50M ARR.
  • ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€:
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Improved platform reliability
  • Increased uptime: 99.7% โ†’ 99.95%
  • Implemented SRE practices and observability
  • Reduced P1 incidents by 50%
  • Tech: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
  • ๐Ÿ’ต Reduced infrastructure costs 22% ($1.2M annually)
  • Automated RDS partitioning
  • S3 lifecycle policies and intelligent tiering
  • Right-sized compute resources
  • ๐Ÿ”„ Led EKS cluster upgrades (1.21 โ†’ 1.24)
  • Zero-downtime migration affecting 200+ microservices
  • Coordinated across 50+ engineering teams
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Strengthened security posture
  • Conducted comprehensive security audits
  • Reduced critical vulnerabilities by 85%
  • Implemented ECR scanning and GuardDuty
  • Achieved 100% credentials rotation with Vault
  • ๐Ÿ—๏ธ Deployed 200+ microservices
  • Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio service mesh
  • Standardized deployment patterns
  • Improved observability and debugging
  • ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ: AWS EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, HashiCorp Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform
AWS EKSKubernetesHelmIstioHashiCorp VaultPrometheus+4

Walmart global tech india

Lead Software Engineer in Test

Feb 2021 โ€“ May 2023 ยท 2 yrs 3 mos ยท Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Led quality engineering for ASDA UK's core e-commerce systems serving 15M+ customers.
  • ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€:
  • ๐Ÿ›’ Maintained 99.9% availability for critical systems
  • Led team of 5 engineers
  • Catalogue and Inventory/Pricing systems
  • Real-time inventory accuracy improvements
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Built large-scale data pipelines
  • Kafka/Spark processing 10M+ product updates daily
  • Reduced processing time by 65%
  • Improved inventory accuracy by 30%
  • ๐Ÿงช Created "Test Data as a Service" platform
  • Reduced QA setup: 8 hours โ†’ 20 minutes
  • Spring Boot microservice architecture
  • Self-service test data generation for 50+ teams
  • โœ… Developed comprehensive API automation
  • 500+ endpoints, 85% code coverage
  • Integrated into CI/CD pipelines
  • Caught 70% of defects pre-production
  • ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ: Kafka, Apache Spark, Spring Boot, REST Assured, Jenkins, PostgreSQL
KafkaApache SparkSpring BootREST AssuredJenkinsPostgreSQL+2

Playment

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test

Dec 2017 โ€“ Feb 2021 ยท 3 yrs 2 mos ยท Bengaluru Area, India

  • Playment provides high-quality human-curated training data for computer vision applications (primary focus on self-driving car companies). It also provides human-powered training for machines to be able to see, think and make decisions like humans.

Gaana

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Dec 2016 โ€“ Dec 2017 ยท 1 yr ยท Noida Area, India

  • Gaana is a commercial music streaming service company. Worked on various projects like Gaana Search, Recommendation system, and Gaana Social. Got hands-on experience in API automation.

Info edge india ltd

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Apr 2014 โ€“ Dec 2016 ยท 2 yrs 8 mos ยท Noida Area, India

  • 99Acres is an Indian real estate database website. Worked on many complex web-based projects and got hands-on experience in UI Automation (Selenium)

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Executive PG in Cloud Computing and DevOps โ€” DevOps

Sep 2023 โ€“ Jul 2024

AJAY KUMAR GARG ENGINEERING COLLEGE, GHAZIABAD

Bachelor of Technology โ€” Information Technology

Jan 2009 โ€“ Jan 2013

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