About

Uttam Agarwal is a seasoned Staff Engineer at VMware with over 10 years of diverse experience in product engineering and R&D work across various industry verticals. He has a solid background in virtualization, cloud, mobile, video, DTH, transportation, and finance domains. Uttam has expertise in design and development of large-scale distributed software systems and has contributed to open-source projects. He has a passion for evangelizing, mentoring, and practicing product and process excellence. Uttam has delivered complex projects in collaboration with researchers and geographically distributed teams. He is familiar with scrum and agile methodologies and has hands-on expertise on dev-ops technologies like Maven, Gradle, Gitlab, Gerrit, etc. He is proficient in operating systems such as Windows and Linux, and programming/scripting languages like Java, Javascript, Typescript, Python, CSS, and HTML. He has experience with tools and kits like Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose, Perforce, Gits, Clearcase, JIRA, Jenkins, Review board, Confluence, and IDs like Eclipse, Android Studio, and Webstorm. Uttam has worked with frameworks like Spring, Angular, RxJS, Clarity, Android, Rabbit MQ, Hadoop, MDM (Mobile Device Management) framework, JAVA EPG framework, Android Security (Cryptography) framework, Junit, PowerMockito, and Robotium. He has also worked with databases like SQLite, Postgres, Elasticsearch, KV Store, and Mongo DB. Uttam has several key achievements to his name, including being the author of the book “Hands-on Full Stack Development with Angular 5 and Firebase,” developing the Android application Heartbeat, which was selected for Google App for India, and contributing to open-source projects like https://vmware.github.io/mangle/. He has been selected for VMware Blogs, was a finalist in Pitch-o-thon organized by VMware, and was selected for VMware RADIO conference SF, USA for research on Supernova. Uttam has also been awarded the VMware Star Award in 2017, Samsung Employee of the Month in 2014, and the coveted NDS INDIA CEO Award in 2008. Uttam has a keen interest in data structures, algorithms, software architecture, system design, low-level design, high-level design, operating systems, and UI design. He holds certifications from Sun certified Java/J2ee programmer. Currently, Uttam works as a Software