Utpal Sen — Director of Engineering

Engineering Leader, having extensive experience of enabling digital business transformation through Cloud, Developer Productivity and AI Professional Summary: * Developer Productivity o Large scale enterprise wide Continuous Integration product engineering experience. Led development of CICD solution leveraging custom developed, opensource and commercial products o Achieved savings of > 20% of developer time by introducing a mix of technologies and process. Enabled predictable build time and CICD queue time across the enterprise o. Achieved significant improvement in stability and predictability of production deployment pipelines using mix of cloud technologies o Implemented mechanisms to reduce cycle time (Enterprise CICD, Release engineering) Cloud Engineering – [Public, Hybrid, Multi Cloud] o Led implementation of multiple large enterprise scale cloud solution. Deep knowledge of multiple cloud service providers o Cloud architecture design to leverage private and public cloud effectively. Custom burst capability from private to public to manage cost and performance o Implemented pipeline driven infrastructure optimisations to reduce production issues significantly o Cloud security best practices implementation to reduce vulnerabilities Continuous Integration/Delivery Adoption o Designed workflows and integration mechanisms to ensure highly effective delivery pipelines o Commercial and custom gates to ensure security and stability in production o. Production level performance engineering and performance tuning experience Leadership Skills: o Setting up high performing self-organising teams o Experience of setting up team across locations. Have led teams having more than hundred individual contributors. o Career framework development, capability development, skill management o Center of excellence, Customer value creation and delivery management across clients

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Engineering and Developer Productivity expert with a focus on enterprise solutions.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 23 yrs 6 mos

Skills

Developer Productivity
Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)
Cloud Engineering
Solution Architecture
Software Development

Career Highlights

Led development of scalable CICD systems for Walmart.
Expert in cloud engineering across multiple platforms.
Proven track record in team leadership and product vision.

Work Experience

Walmart

Senior Engineering Manager (5 yrs 6 mos)

Genpact Digital

Asst Vice President | Engineering (1 yr)

Publicis Sapient

Senior Specialist (14 yrs 10 mos)

Medicom (Now Isoft)

Programmer (10 mos)

Protege India

Software Developer (1 yr 4 mos)

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU

MS at Assam (Central) University

Utpal Sen

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of scalable CICD systems for Walmart.
Expert in cloud engineering across multiple platforms.
Proven track record in team leadership and product vision.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Engineering and Developer Productivity expert with a focus on enterprise solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Developer ProductivityContinuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)Cloud EngineeringSolution ArchitectureSoftware Development

Other Skills

CICDCloud IntegrationTeam LeadershipProduct VisionProduct DesignComplianceCloud AdoptionArchitecture DesignConsultingJava/J2EESolution DesignJavaJSPOracle8iMicrosoft Azure

About

Experience

23 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Walmart

Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Engineering leader - developing a massively scalable CICD system that powers Walmart's enterprise wide CICD pipelines across all business segment.
Was responsible for hiring the team, developing the product vision and lead the implementation in a staggered approach ensuring the product was usable with key features within a very short time frame with a pipeline of additional capabilities to scale developer productivity.
Acted as the face of the product in defining the platform experience, customer acceptance and roadmap planning and implementation
Worked closely with business in defining the key capabilities and ensured successful implementation
Cloud Integration to ensure optimal use of on-premise and cloud hardware for CICD scaling
Feature definition, prioritisation, product and team success, people growth

CICDCloud IntegrationTeam LeadershipProduct VisionDeveloper ProductivityContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Genpact digital

Asst Vice President | Engineering

Oct 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr

Led the engineering of an enterprise wide CICD product for Genpact digital catering to pharma regulations.
Led product design, engineering, compliance and customer acceptance
Implemented mix of open source and commercial products

CICDProduct DesignComplianceContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cloud Engineering

Publicis sapient

Senior Specialist

Dec 2004 – Oct 2019 · 14 yrs 10 mos

Role: Senior Architect
Core Responsibility: Cloud Adoption Journey - Design and Implementation
Details:
Experience of leading cloud adoption journey for customers across business verticals – Travel & Hospitality, Retail and Automobile. Zero downtime strategy leveraging best practices
Experience of consulting successful cloud adoption journey on Microsoft Azure platform for a very large scale connected island implementation in UAE – (multi tenant, connected across all physical sites)
Hands on experience working on multiple Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Architected highly scalable cloud based engine for product engagement for a large automobile powerhouse in US
Played senior architect role in helping financial clients adopt cloud based infrastructure
Have led teams comprising more than 100+ individual contributors
Tech Skills includes: AWS, Azure, GCP, Java/J2EE, C#, Puppet, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Unix/Linux, Jenkins, Git, Burp, ZaProxy, Nolio, Maven, Server sizing and Scalability Design, Continuous Delivery Pipeline design, Akamai CDN, AEM, Monitoring - ELK, Zabbix, Nagios etc.
Deep application development experience on multiple retail customers. Have developed multiple components in Java/J2EE for many top retail brands
Hands on knowledge of analytics implementation using multiple product suite
Have worked on developing Adobe Experience Manager based digital transformation initiatives

Cloud AdoptionArchitecture DesignConsultingCloud EngineeringSolution Architecture

Medicom (now isoft)

Programmer

Jan 2004 – Nov 2004 · 10 mos

Role: Java/J2EE Developer
Responsibilities: Software Development, Solution Design.
Details:
Worked on application development using Java/J2EE in healthcare domain
Worked in UAE for Government Healthcare Services on an assignment to setup the healthcare management system

Java/J2EESoftware DevelopmentSolution Design

Protege india

Software Developer

Aug 2002 – Dec 2003 · 1 yr 4 mos

Role: Software Developer
Responsibilities: Software Design and Development: Java, JSP, Oracle8i
Details:
Worked on a product providing end to end management of small healthcare businesses
Involved in functional design, coding, testing
Provided technical coverage for product implementation at customer locations

JavaJSPOracle8iSoftware Development