Utkarsh Jain — Director of Engineering
With about a decade of leading engineering teams and building scalable data platforms, I am a passionate and driven engineering manager at Rippling, a company that is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their HR and IT systems. I enjoy working on challenging and innovative projects that leverage cutting-edge technologies and solve real-world problems. I am also committed to creating a collaborative and inclusive culture that empowers and inspires my team members to grow and excel. As the engineering manager for Query and Data Platform at Rippling, I am responsible for Rippling Query Language (RQL), a distributed query processing engine, and a distributed datastore that supports dozens of vertical applications as part of Rippling's compound startup strategy. I am also leading the development of the next-gen dependency tracking platform and the next-gen data platform for streaming transformations and materialized views. Additionally, I am scaling the data cloud alpha by 100x and building the foundational platform for real-time OLAP, streaming ingestion, and query engine. Some of the technologies that I use and manage include Apache Pinot, Apache Presto, Kafka, Debezium, and more. I have also contributed to multiple patents in the field of data indexing and search.
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Location: Kirkland, Washington, United States
Experience: 20 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- Data Platforms
- Search Technologies
- Data Indexing
Career Highlights
- Led engineering teams for a decade.
- Expert in scalable data platforms.
- Contributed to multiple patents in data indexing.
Work Experience
Rippling
Senior Engineering Manager (3 yrs 9 mos)
Microsoft
Partner Group Engineering Manager (2 yrs 9 mos)
Principal Software Engineering Manager (6 yrs)
Senior SDE (7 yrs 8 mos)
Education
M. Tech. at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
BE at Maharshi Dayanand University