About

Utsav Shah is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in the field. Currently, he is working at Vanta as a Software Engineer, where he is responsible for developing and maintaining software systems. Prior to this, Utsav worked at Dropbox, where he held the position of Software Engineer and Team Lead. During his time at Dropbox, Utsav was responsible for major monolith service and async platforms. He was also instrumental in operationalizing the internal serverless platform to replace the existing monolith and improve developer productivity. Utsav built and deployed a custom auto-scaling system for the internal serverless platform, which reduced weekly capacity planning toil for tenants and significantly improved availability for batch jobs. As a Team Lead for the Developer Effectiveness team, Utsav enhanced Git for Dropbox to be faster for common local operations like status, diff, and stash. He also designed an automated test health monitoring system that reduced the need for manual intervention to keep the build stable by over 90%. Utsav led multiple successful projects to cut total CI spend by more than 10% via improved test selection algorithms, better cache hit rates via build reproducibility, and batch running test suites. Utsav holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also attended The International School Bangalore from 2011 to 2013. Utsav has a strong tech stack that includes Software Engineering, testing, Amazon Athena, and Postgres. Overall, Utsav is a dedicated and experienced Software Engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software systems. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow his skills and knowledge.