# UTKARSH B. > Open-source contributor, engineer @ HippocraticAI Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/utkarshb As a Principal Software Engineer at Target with over three years of experience, I contribute to advancing Target Tech Infrastructure by developing FinOps tools to optimize cloud and data center usage. My work focuses on cost-saving opportunities, capacity management, and providing actionable insights through internal platforms. With a strong foundation in software development, I am passionate about leveraging my skills to drive innovation and efficiency in technology infrastructure. I am committed to creating impactful solutions that enhance operational performance and align with organizational goals. ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ Hippocratic AI Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Software Engineer @ Target Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area - Influencing capacity management for Target Tech Infrastructure both in private datacenter and public cloud. - Built FinOps tools for Target teams and showing their spend and usage of the infrastructure. - Showing the opportunities to save costs across Target Tech Infrastructure by surfacing them on internal portals within Target ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Lacework Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area - Worked on Observability platform including Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics and Grafana. - Administered RedPanda (Kafka alternative) clusters at Lacework and made sure we run them with high availability, resiliency and effectiveness. - Part of the work was Terraform and K8s related for the infrastructure we created in the public cloud. ### Software Engineering Lead - Infrastructure @ Avenue 8 Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States - Automated infrastructure creation for all backend applications to re-create production like environments consistently using Terraform and Terragrunt - Setup secrets management, github workflows to automate CI/CD across backend applications. - Created a ChatOps based slack bot for developers to interact with all existing environments and applications. - Used AWS ECS and ECR for launching application containers on EC2 instances. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Tinder, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area - Improved Tinder's API performance by about 50%-90% by using AWS CloudFront for Dynamic HTTP requests reducing TLS Handshake latency globally. - Evaluated and migrated Static Content for Tinder to the best performing CDN after comparing AWS CloudFront and Akamai globally. - Automated workflows for monitoring, alerting and service lifecycle using Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana and Prometheus. ### Engineering Manager @ Tinder, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area - Lead a 4 people team to work on Observability initiatives. - Initiated an in-house project for CI/CD for Tinder and pushing out real time configuration changes through UI. - Initiated an AWS cost explorer project for Tinder to measure cost related to different projects in terms of AWS resources used per project. - Also lead initiatives related to Monitoring, Logging and Alerting at Tinder. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tinder, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area - Scale up Prometheus & Grafana setup for Tinder's Infrastructure for resilient monitoring. - Completely automated CI/CD through Ruby scripting, bash, HTTP service and Slack Chat Bot (Hubot). - Worked on Bash Scripting, Puppet to automate workflows in Infrastructure Deployment in AWS. ### Senior Software Engineer @ PlayStation Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area - Designed and implemented Logging and Monitoring pipeline using Logstash, Kafka, Spark (Spark Streaming), Opentsdb/Graphite and Grafana. - Real time Apache access logs processing using Apache Spark (Spark Streaming) generating real time metrics and statistics. - Built an AWS to Kafka module which queries for metrics, logs and metadata from AWS and writes into Kafka. - Built a framework on top of Spark Streaming, which made writing Spark Streaming jobs easy for developers. - Implemented an API for controlling the flow of a Spark Streaming job or pipeline. Also, added event based controls into the pipelines via Kafka. ### Cloud Platform Engineer @ UL Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 - Compressed whole environments into couple of AWS EC2 machines for functional testing of the code, hence reducing the AWS cost to a good extent. - Created on demand environmets for team for performance testing and other purposes. Can be launched on a single click and can be destroyed after use. This reduced AWS expense. - Implemented automated clustering of RabbitMQ, Cassandra and ElasticSearch managed through Chef. - Set up a functional, completely automated Continuous Integration system for the team. Joined all the different pieces of CI i.e. Github, Phabricator, Redmine, Jenkins, Vagrant, Chef and AWS deployment. - Configuration and Automation of distributed components of the cloud through Chef. - Apache Cassandra cluster management, backup and recovery strategies implemented with help of AWS S3. - Setting up Nagios monitoring for the production systems as well as the development environments. - Set up logging infrastructure for production systems with Logstash, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ & Kibana. ### Software Engineer II - Platform Development @ Samsung Telecommunications America Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 -- Designed and Implementing a customizable Autoscaling feature for servers in Cloud. Working on an extensible and generic auto-scaling project which will extend the cloud capability to up and down scale depending on the load on the servers. Includes technologies like AWS APIs like Cloudwatch and EC2, Ganglia and Chef/Knife automation tools. Most probably, will extend the features as an API to the Lab projects. -- Automated complete deployment process with the help of "knife" based ruby and bash scripts, which also included rollback features and version based deployment in all the development/production environments. ### Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure @ Samsung Telecommunications America Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 -- Implemented a fault tolerant Hadoop cluster with high availability. Includes automated addition and removal of nodes/slaves. -- Writing PIG scripts on BIG DATA stored in CASSANDRA distributed database and running it on HADOOP Cluster. Automating PIG scripts using crontab and generating analytical data with JAVA Mail API and Apache POI. -- Setup, Configure and Maintain DNS Servers (BIND Service) on different name servers for the lab. Automated DNS Replication and Implemented Split Horizon DNS for each environment. -- Cloud setup and deployment on AMAZON platform using AWS. -- Android Application Development and Java Utility Development for the Android Apps. -- JUnit testing for Lab's Android Projects. -- Hands on experience with Hadoop Clustering, Apache Solr Clustering, Cassandra Clustering. -- Implemented automated cloud logging framework by tweaking Rsyslog and Logrotate. Configured Rsyslog server for sending multiple log files to the central logging server resulting in a single log file. -- AMAZON AWS related system experience - Route 53 DNS, RDS , ELB, EBS, S3, S3FS implementation, setting up EC2 instances with desired set up ephemeral drives. NFS setup on AWS EC2 instances. -- Implemented Cloud Monitoring tools like Nagios and Ganglia for all servers. Writing disk management plugins and script management plugins for Nagios. Secured Ganglia web service with Username and Password. -- Build a simple AJAX based UI for displaying current logs of the selected server for Lab. Used JAVA Servlets as the backend to process the logs. -- Used Bash/Shell Scripts to automate deployment/upgrade for various services on Cloud. -- Implemented S3FS (S3 based File system for one of the major lab projects). -- Hands on implementing and maintaining servers with "Chef". Writing cookbooks and recipes. ### Software Engineer @ ARIS Research and Technology, LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 -- Implemented Core Java based processes to interact with Bloomberg JAVA API and get the required data for financial research. Acquired practical knowledge of Bloomberg Request/Response mechanism and the protocols used for data transfer. -- Leaned the working of Fixed Income instruments. Understood the complete lifecycle of US Treasury issued securities like bills, bonds, notes , tips etc. Implemented an automated setup for this complete lifecycle of the securities in JAVA. -- Learned Benchmark Rolling for different instruments like US Treasury notes/bonds, fed fund futures, WI notes/bonds etc. Implemented an optimized rolling algorithm in JAVA to setup these benchmarks. -- Database syncing and comparison has been an integral part of my work. Handled complete migration and release of the data from development databases to pre-production and finally to production database. -- Learned MYSQL for database maintenance and handling and AMAZON AWS for remote database hosting. -- Built an in-house data synchronizing tool using JAVA Swing API for the release and migration of the data between different remote database servers. -- Leaned GitHub processes which has emerged as the future of version control. Used the Git tools/commands for committing, merging and pushing code. ### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 -- Course Description : Web Application Development. Professor : Jeff Eppinger. Course Level : Masters -- Course Work : JSP, Servlets, JDBC, i18n etc -- Solved student's doubts and queries in the recitation and in my office hours. -- Gave students a better approach to tackle the course problems. ### Associate System Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 -- Trained in Microsoft.NET & C# for 2 months under company's intensive training program. -- Worked on a SharePoint based Content Management tool for British Petroleum as a developer. -- Learned the core of service based industry, interaction with clients, working in a team, appreciation power etc. ## Education ### MS in School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University ### Course in Financial Planning University of California, Berkeley ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Information Technology Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya ### High School in Science Emerald Heights International School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/utkarsh-b-9448a612 --- Source: https://flows.cv/utkarshb JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/utkarshb/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12