Utkarsh Upadhyay

Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Ferro Energy, focused on API platforms. Reduced cloud spend on public API by 23% in two quarters. Before that: Zoho and Groww. Most at home with PostgreSQL and OpenAPI. I teach a weekend class on rate limiting.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   May 2022 - Present
   Ferro Energy · 4 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Grew the public API team from 4 to 25 engineers.
   • Shipped 23 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
2. Staff Backend Engineer

   May 2020 - May 2022
   Zoho · 2 yr · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Moved 87% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped 30 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
3. Engineering Manager

   Apr 2017 - May 2020
   Groww · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Led the migration of 75 services to rate limiting.
   • Built the experimentation framework 20 product teams use to ship changes safely.
4. Backend Engineer

   Jun 2014 - Apr 2017
   Airtel · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 19 a week to 1.
   • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 45% in two quarters.
5. Backend Engineer

   Oct 2011 - Jun 2014
   Mphasis · 2 yr 8 mo · Contract · Kolkata, India
   • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 13 a week to 4.
   • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 307ms to 57ms.

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Education

1. Shri Ram College of Commerce

   B.Com, Information Technology
   2006 - 2010