Utkarsh Behre

I am an experienced Software Engineer with knowledge of both front-end as well as back-end development. I am currently working at Microsoft with designation Software Engineer 2. I have worked mostly in an agile development environment but also have experience working with waterfall model. I believe I am a very motivated Software Engineer, building solutions to problems around the world. I love the feeling of delivering finished projects. But, I think nothing can top the thrill that we get when we are working on a hard problem, and the code finally works after us figuring out why it wasn't working in the first place.

Experience

Software Engineer 2

Microsoft

• Improved load time of one of the landing pages in my project, making it 3x faster
• Worked with Product Manager in gathering project requirements and delivering new work items
• Delivered various new small additional features, bug fixes

April 2021 - Current

Teaching Assistant

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

• Organized and taught in recitations for AI course; helped and mentored 45 students with course work & project
• Created and graded questions on 5 quizzes, 5 assignments, and 3 projects; supervised final exams and quizzes

May 2020 - July 2020

Software Engineer

Lumen

• Shipped Internet & phone related ordering & billing features, used by 4.5 million customers, using Java/REST API
• Developed new web modules for ordering products TD Internet, DirecTV and CVOIP using Angular/Spring MVC
• Delivered automated Q&A chatbot for to answer 300+ policy questions to employees using C#/node.js and Azure
• Designed Machine Learning models to show best product offers for Internet bundles using custom KNN algorithm
• Created scripts for continous development using Github & Jenkins; managed build pipelines & on-call support
• Planned and conducted cross-functional team meetings; spearheaded team of 5 and mentored new members
• Part of Agile team, involved in daily scrum, sprint planning, review, retrospective and backlog refinement meetings

August 2016 - June 2019

Education

Technical Skills

• Java
• Python
• C#
• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• SQL

• Spring MVC
• ASP.Net MVC 5
• Flask
• React.js
• Node.js
• Angular.js
• Microsoft Bot
• PySpark
• Hadoop

• Git
• Eclipse
• Android Studio
• Google Cloud Platform
• Azure Cloud Services
• AWS Lambda
• Machine Learning
• Jira
• Jupyter Notebook
• Visual Studio
• IntelliJ
• PyCharm
• Figma
• TLA+ Toolkit

• Twilio SMS
• SMTP
• Weather API
• Twitch API
• Bootstrap
• FontAwesome
• JQuery
• JQuery UI
• Keras
• Tensorflow
• SKLearns
• Numpy
• Pandas
• Matplotlib
• Seaborn
• OpenAI Gym

• Full-Stack Development
• Responsive Design
• Backend Development
• Machine Learning
• API Development
• Agile Development & Scrum
• Continuous Development

• Mentored around 14 new employees while working at CenturyLink
• Conducted many regular and non-regular cross functional team meetings
• Led a team of 4 people at offshore and conducted meetings with on-shore coordinator, product owner, stake holders, and QA testers
• Guided and supported many students while being a teaching assistant
• Co-Hosted a Reinforcement Learning workshop at University at Buffalo
• Represented my team in the scrum of scrums meetings
• Volunteered at a free food for poor hungry children event at Bengaluru

Projects

Full-Stack Web Development

Buffalo Botanical Gardens Tributes

Full-Stack Web Development

Twitch Stats (UB Hackathon 2020)

Full-Stack Web Development

Simon

Distributed Systems

Ben Or Decentralized Binary Consensus

Mobile App Development

Mind Twister (Android Puzzle Game)

Chatbot

CenturyLink's Intranet Chatbot

Machine Learning

Movie Genre Prediction

Machine Learning

Predictive Analytics

Machine Learning

Cancer Prediction

Machine Learning

Fashion Clothing Type Prediction

Machine Learning

Applied Deep Reinforcement Learning

Desktop App Development

Biometric Attendance System

Frontend Development

Natural Disasters Awareness

Frontend Development

UtkarshBehre.com

Awards & Accomplishments

• 3 ^rd Prize - Masters Major Project: Awarded 3rd prize on the demo day of Computer Science Department projects at University at Buffalo for developing and delivering website for Buffalo Botanical Gardens Tributes
• 1 ^st Place - CDAC Major Project: Awarded 1st prize out of 50 projects for a unique fully-fledged android puzzle game
• 1 ^st Place - Post-graduation diploma in Advanced Computing
• Gave a talk and demoed a project during a Reinforcement learning workshop at University at Buffalo
• Recognized as the best app maker for making several apps like tic-tac-toe and sudoku in a 6 hours Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra workshop
• Awarded with "Commitment to Excellence" at CenturyLink for my dedication and motivation to be one of the top contributers in my projects
• Awarded with "Certificate of Appreciation" for going above and beyond and pitching new project ideas that would save the company millions of dollars in the future. These projects got greenlit and funded
• 1 ^st Place - Samvid Technical Festival Coding Competition 2013
• Appreciated for my master's project work by the clients, for a month early finished and polished project turnover
• Part of the very few teams (team of 2s) who got the best scores in Distributed Systems project during Masters

Interests

During my free time, I love exploring and learning about the new technologies from sites like Udacity, LinkedIn Learning, Coursera, CodeAcademy, Udemy. I get the feeling of accomplishment when I do the courses and able to apply what I learnt in my personal mini projects.

I also like playing piano when I am free. It could be either replaying many of my favorite songs or just coming up with new melodies on the go and enjoying those. As a hobby, sometimes I find myself spending time in garageband and FLStudio trying to compose new songs. Here are some of the songs I made recently.