Hi, I'm Utkarsh
Product · Strategy · Engineering
I build things that help people — from cloud infrastructure at Vodafone to a visa bot that helped 10+ Rice students land their slots.
About
Rice MBA (2028) with 5 years bridging cloud engineering and business strategy. I solve complex problems — from system failures to go‑to‑market strategy.
At Vodafone (3x Star Performer), I turned stalled adoption into 217% growth, led platform expansions across 2 countries, and prevented $100M in client losses through data‑driven decisions and cross‑functional leadership.
When I’m not in data or strategy mode, I’m building side projects (like this portfolio), hitting the gym, playing table tennis, chess, and badminton, or following the UFC — gaming is my occasional escape.
Interests
Education
Rice University - Jones Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Merit Scholarship — 80% of tuition; top 5% of admitted cohort
Vellore Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Current Courses
Building a strong foundation in business and strategy through these core MBA courses.
Financial Accounting
Core MBA Course
Competitive Strategy
Core MBA Course
Corporate Finance
Core MBA Course
Organizational Behaviour
Core MBA Course
Marketing
Core MBA Course
Strategic Business Communication
Core MBA Course
Product & Technical Arsenal
Experience
Assistant Manager
Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS)
📍 Pune, India
- Diagnosed causes behind stalled adoption (6%) of a newly launched product; redesigned onboarding and stakeholder demos, driving daily active users from 24 to 76 (+217%) within 21 days.
- Led the response to critical infrastructure risk across 50+ corporate clients, personally executing code-level changes under a compressed timeline to prevent estimated $100M in potential client revenue loss with zero disruption.
- Directed strategic platform expansion into second cloud provider across India and Germany, securing executive buy-in to unlock new client segment — onboarding 40+ corporate clients within 7 months.
- Led bi-weekly Agile sprint demos and cross-functional planning (sprint & PI planning, RCA reviews) for a 25-30 person audience spanning product, solutioning, and testing — translating technical delivery into business-ready updates every 2-week cycle.
- 3x recipient, VOIS Star Performer Award — recognition awarded to 2-3 top performers selected from a 25-person team each cycle.
Tech Stack
Senior Executive
Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS)
📍 Pune, India
- Conducted bottom-up cost analysis of non-production cloud spend; identified $61K in annual inefficiency from idle overnight cloud instances and engineered a scheduling script, cutting dev/test environment costs 50% ($120K → $59K annually).
- Coordinated core platform features for Kubernetes lifecycle management on AWS EKS, scaling capabilities to support 50+ enterprise clients.
Tech Stack
Graduate Engineer Trainee
Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS)
📍 Pune, India
- Ran proof-of-concept demonstrating unit testing workloads could run on medium instances instead of large with zero performance loss, then drove team adoption against initial resistance — cutting compute unit costs 40%.
- Deployed automated cleanup protocols identifying and terminating idle "zombie" instances left running by developers and testers after 7+ days of inactivity, reducing non-production compute costs by 35%.
Tech Stack
Projects
MoniTrade — Risk Monitoring Platform
What's this? Why did I build it? Because manually tracking 30+ high‑volatility option trades is a terrible way to live, I built MoniTrade (React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL) as the solo PM/engineer.
Smart Alerts
Imagine your profit is a balloon. As it flies higher, a safety floor follows it from below. If the balloon hits a ceiling and drops by ₹500, it will hit that floor and trigger your alarm. No more guessing.
Global Alerts
Tracking the P&L of every single position is tedious and boring. Global Alerts monitor the combined P&L of all your positions at once. When the total portfolio moves against you, you get a single, clear alert—so you can stay ahead without drowning in noise.
You can keep reading, or click DEMO to experience it yourself!
Visa Slot Alert Bot — Telegram Filtering System
🎯 100,000+ people fighting for 10-second visa slots? I said 'no thanks' and built a bot instead. I scanned 4–5 Telegram groups 24/7, filtered 80% of the noise, and forwarded only the real slot openings to a curated channel. Hosted on Google Cloud. Helped ~10 Rice admits (including me) secure their visas without losing their sanity.
- 📡Scanned 4–5 groups 24/7
- 🔇80% noise reduction
- ☁️Google Cloud hosted
- 🆘Helped 10+ Rice students
Contact
Phone
+17132690427