Utkarsh Shivam Upadhyay

CTO · Cloud infrastructure · incident response

Alder Systems

Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

14+ years experience

VIT Vellore

English, Hindi, Marathi

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Based in Mumbai. I lead cloud infrastructure at Alder Systems. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Built the experimentation framework 20 product teams use to ship changes safely. Most at home with Kubernetes and Go.

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KubernetesOWASPPrometheusGoTerraformincident responseAWS

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Hiring a senior security engineer for the infrastructure team - Mumbai

Role: Senior security engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Remote within country
Compensation: ₹50-90 LPA
Team: Infrastructure, 15 people
Start: Within a month
Must have: Production experience with Terraform Production experience with incident response Clear written communication
Process: 3 conversations, no take-home

Comp ₹27-69 LPA. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

CTO
Dec 2022 - Present
Alder Systems · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 33% in two quarters.
- Moved 83% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Site Reliability Engineer
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Tech Mahindra · 3 yr · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Shipped 17 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 3.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Feb 2017 - Oct 2019
TCS · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Grew the infrastructure team from 4 to 34 engineers.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
Zoho · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 4.
- Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 26 a week to 1.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Aug 2012 - May 2015
Capgemini · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
- Built the experimentation framework 32 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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VIT Vellore
B.Tech, Information Technology
1995 - 1999

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