About

Uttam Tiwari is an accomplished Vice President and Head of Engineering with over a decade of experience in the industry. He is an entrepreneurial and driven professional with diverse experience in founding and leading his own business, working with budding/Unicorn Indian startups and renowned established organizations. Uttam has delivered large scale distributed systems and internet scale platforms touching millions of users. He is also adept at hiring, building, and mentoring rock star engineering teams and setting up cultures for engineering excellence. Uttam has a proven business acumen to deliver multimillion-dollar bottom-line growth. He is skilled in multitasking complexity at scale, building teams with a strong sense of purpose, deep understanding of consumers, building successful businesses from scratch, restructuring and growing businesses at scale, managing complex businesses, and building products that customers love. Uttam has a strong background in fantasy gaming, fintech, consumer internet, e-commerce, information extraction, information retrieval, and cloud computing. His expertise lies in distributed systems, big data, analytics, distributed applications, web services, application performance, scalability, people management, service-oriented architecture (SOA), system architecture, and transactional systems. Currently, Uttam is the Vice President of Engineering at Airtel, where he is responsible for UPI, BBPS, Payments Platform, and Airtel Finance. He previously worked as AVP - Payments at Airtel and as Head of Engineering at Cricplay. Uttam holds an M.Tech in Natural Language Processing from the International Institute of Information Technology, a B.E in Information Technology from Kirodimal Institute of Technology, and a 10th-grade degree from S.S.V.M.Sharda Vihar. He is proficient in a wide range of tech stacks, including Senior Software Engineer, Java, Spring, Big Data, Spring Boot, Information Retrieval, Web, Software Engineer, NLP, ML, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Search, AWS, AI, CI/CD, qa, Redis, Research Scientist, PHP, NoSQL, Elastic Search, Microservices, and Azure. Overall, Uttam has 14.12 years of relevant experience and is a highly skilled and accomplished professional in the industry.