About

Utkarsh Bajpai is a Senior Associate at Strategy& with over 6 years of experience in building products and services for cutting-edge domains such as Electronics, HFT, Cryptocurrencies, and E-commerce. He is an analytical and quantitative team player with a comprehensive understanding of technologies such as Blockchain, NFT, and DeFi. Utkarsh has worked extensively with Product Managers, UI/UX designers, Engineers, and Business development professionals. He has developed cross-border seller platforms for Shopee, achieving a 200% growth in cross-border traffic. At Bronk Ventures, he built monitoring and logging systems from scratch, helping to avert dangerous trading scenarios by automatically shutting down trading and saving developer time to analyze logs by 90%. At Samsung, he developed Android Applications for its IoT ecosystem and launched V-Home, an IoT application for 60 million consumers in Germany. Utkarsh is passionate about new technologies such as Web 3.0, Blockchain, and its applications for Defi, NFT's, Metaverse, etc. He enjoys discussing and reading up on these technologies in his free time. On top of all this, he is crazy about new gadgets, be it new drones, smartphones, laptops, or anything impressive out there. Apart from his technical expertise, Utkarsh is also a mentor to young professionals, a hiking enthusiast, a foodie who loves to cook, and a travel enthusiast who loves to explore new cultures, cuisines, and places. Utkarsh holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur. He has expertise in technologies such as Python, Golang, MySQL, TiDb, ETCD, Redis, Memcache, Kafka, Grafana, ELKB Stack, and TICK stack.