Open to engineering leadership roles
Engineering leadership · AI and data platforms · Distributed systems
I’m Utkarsh Mankad.
I build teams and platforms for scale.
I lead engineering teams through the difficult middle: turning an ambitious product goal into a system that works reliably, and an organisation that can keep improving it.
01Experience
What I’ve led—and what changed.
Oracle
Engineering Manager · AI Data Platform
Led a nine-engineer connectivity pod delivering 14 production ingestion connectors for Oracle 23ai, establishing the VECTOR and JSON CRUD foundation, cutting read latency 70% through Spark pushdown, and securing FIPS 140-3 certification.
- 14 production connectors
- 70% lower read latency
- 85%+ test coverage
- FIPS 140-3 certified
- Oracle 23ai
- Apache Spark
- Java
- Python
- Scala
- OCI
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Snowflake
- Salesforce
- Grafana
Fynd · Reliance Industries
Engineering Manager · Platform & Integrations
Built and led the 20-engineer organisation behind Metro B2B and Ajio B2B, migrating JioMart Partners with zero downtime and architecting the CDC pipeline that powered live commerce analytics and AI product recommendations.
- Team scaled 5 → 20
- 5M+ active merchants
- 3M+ SKUs
- Zero-downtime migration
- MongoDB
- Kafka
- Debezium
- Delta Lake
- Medallion Architecture
- Java
- Node.js
- React
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- Jenkins
- Helm
- Grafana
- Coralogix
- New Relic
- Sentry
- PagerDuty
- OpenTelemetry
CDAC · Government of India
SDE 2 → SDE 3 → Architect → Engineering Manager
Progressed from individual contributor to technical architect and engineering manager, ultimately leading 12 engineers across IoT and AR at India’s national government R&D institute. Owned a ₹300 Cr+ programme portfolio and delivered public systems spanning smart water infrastructure, COVID monitoring, education, mobility, Smart Cities, and identity verification.
- 12-engineer organisation
- ₹300 Cr+ portfolio
- 10+ public products
- 1.2M+ app downloads
- 8,000 IoT sensors
- 4-state COVID deployment
- Java
- Android SDK
- Node.js
- Angular
- React
- IoT Data Pipelines
02Products
Platforms and public systems I helped bring to life.
Oracle AI Data Platform
I led the connectivity pod responsible for 14 production ingestion connectors, including the VECTOR and JSON CRUD foundations for Oracle 23ai.
View the product ↗02 / Commerce at scaleReliance B2B Commerce
I built the engineering organisation and integration platform behind B2B journeys serving more than five million active merchants.
View the product ↗03 / Public mobilityNamma Metro
I helped take Bengaluru’s official metro companion from a public-service idea to an app used by more than 1.2 million commuters.
View the product ↗04 / Urban infrastructureSmart Water Network
I led delivery of an IoT monitoring platform covering 8,000 sensors across 40 locations, giving operations teams a usable view of the network.
View the product ↗03Independent work
Tools I built to solve problems I know firsthand.
Isha — Smart Helpdesk Assistant
I built Isha to test what a trustworthy airline support assistant needs in practice: hybrid retrieval, cited answers, confidence checks, memory, multilingual support, and a clean API.
View the project ↗Python / ReactJob Tracker
I wanted one private place to follow a job search, so I built a local-first tool that turns incoming job emails into an application pipeline.
View the project ↗Next.js / AIJD Fit Checker
I built this to answer a practical question quickly: is a role worth pursuing? It scores the match, explains gaps, and keeps the decision visible.
View the project ↗TypeScript / Next.jsReportAPI
An experiment in making report creation and sharing simpler, with the workflow reduced to the parts people actually need.
View the project ↗04Open source
Changes I’ve contributed to other teams’ codebases.
Hardened WAL failure handling
Made the S3 stream write path fail safely when WAL preparation breaks.
View the pull request ↗Sharper cache diagnostics
Separated capacity evictions from TTL expiry so operators get actionable warnings.
View the pull request ↗Extended PostgreSQL query support
Added PREPARE, EXECUTE, and DEALLOCATE support to simple-query mode.
View the pull request ↗Fixed tutorial configuration
Corrected an indentation issue in the Application Mashup learning path.
View the pull request ↗05Writing
Notes from building data, AI, and delivery systems.
JobSnob: Building Fast AI and RAG JD Screening Pipelines
How a two-speed AI and RAG architecture replaced per-job LLM calls with cached semantic context and deterministic local scoring—cutting screening latency while preserving explainable results.
Read the article ↗Automated Canary Deployments: Strategies for Safer Software Releases
A practical guide to progressive delivery, metric-driven promotion, automated rollback, and safer production releases.
Read the article ↗Unlocking the Power of Big Data: Understanding the Architecture of Spark Connectors
An architectural walkthrough of how Spark connectors bridge distributed applications and diverse external data sources.
Read the article ↗06Leadership
How I lead teams and work with stakeholders.
I make ownership explicit, keep technical decisions close to the people doing the work, and give executives a clear view of trade-offs. My job is to create enough direction for teams to move independently without losing sight of the outcome.
- 01Organisation design
- 02Executive stakeholder management
- 03Budget & portfolio ownership
- 04OKR & goal setting
- 05Cross-functional programme delivery
- 06Hiring & talent development
- 07Performance management
A useful plan should make the next decision easier—not merely make the status meeting shorter.
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