About

Utsav Mehta is a Senior Software Engineer at Credit Karma with over 8 years of experience in building and designing scalable and robust distributed systems. He was an early member of a healthcare tech startup DocASAP that eventually got acquired by United Health Group (Optum). At Credit Karma, Utsav is responsible for building partner integrations with insurance providers for Karma Drive Product, which helps Credit Karma end-users unlock discounts on their insurance premiums based on their driving habits. He also assists in onboarding and mentoring new backend engineers in the team and contributes to improving backend code quality through peer code reviews, participation in design meetings, and documentation of existing service endpoints. Utsav's efforts also help improve system reliability through contributions towards identifying failure points and improving the monitoring and alerting process. In his previous role as a Lead Software Engineer at UnitedHealth, Utsav utilized system design principles to build loosely coupled scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant distributed systems. He was also involved in architecting and building a scalable event-driven ETL data pipeline using Apache Nifi, Spring Boot-based Microservices that could efficiently cater to ingesting data from a growing number of third-party integrations with healthcare systems. Utsav also led a team of six developers to build a fully integrated telehealth doctor visit application using Java on Spring Boot and PHP on Laravel. As a Senior Software Engineer at DocASAP, Utsav was part of the product development team responsible for the development of new features and maintenance of the existing codebase. He worked with an Agile, Scrum methodology to ensure delivery of high-quality work with biweekly sprints. Utsav also followed the principles of Behavior Driven Development to deliver features based on specifications and assisted fellow team members in code review and identification of design enhancements. Utsav holds a Master of Science and Engineering in Embedded Systems from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from KIIT University. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, Backend, Spring Boot, Spring, Senior Software Engineer, Java, PHP, Microservices, and ETL. With almost 8 years of relevant experience, Utsav is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a proven track record of building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.