Utkarsh Alok Kapoor

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Senior Engineering Manager, Visa - performance engineering · C++ · Rust

Visa
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
Anna University
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Visa, focused on distributed databases. Grew the storage team from 6 to 23 engineers. Before that: Philips and Goldman Sachs. Most at home with performance engineering and Rust.

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Skills
RustC++Raftperformance engineering

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Visa · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Grew the storage team from 6 to 31 engineers.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
    Philips · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 531ms to 64ms.
  3. Software Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
    Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 3.
    • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 32 million requests a day.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from storage
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling distributed databases.

Open-source performance engineering toolkit
2022

A small library for distributed databases that 434 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Anna University
    B.E., Electronics and Communication
    2012 - 2016

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