About.
Lead forward deployed engineer in Melbourne. I build AI into large enterprises, inside the delivery team, against dates that can’t move.
- Shipping since
- 2011
- Books
- 5
- Talks
- 30+
- US patent
- 1
Gujarati, Hindi, English and a little Spanish. Outside work, weights.
Five cities, fifteen years.
- Ahmedabad2011First job. Cloud consulting for startups. First book.
- Bangalore2013Cloud research and training at Infosys.
- Pune2014DevOps for SAP Labs. Spoke at HashiConf.
- Singapore2017SRE and DevSecOps for banks across Asia, then KPMG.
- Melbourne2022Bank platforms, modernisation and AI agents across Australia and New Zealand.
Every role, 2011 to now
- 2022 to nowGlobal consultancy, Australia and New ZealandCore modernisation, platform engineering and AI lead
- 2021 to 2022KPMG SingaporeAssociate Director, CIO Advisory, cloud and DevSecOps
- 2017 to 2021Global consultancy, Singapore and ThailandPrincipal technology architect, SRE, DevSecOps and quality engineering for banks
- 2017Oracle, IndiaSenior technology architect, Oracle Cloud
- 2015 to 2016REAN Cloud, PuneCloud and DevOps architect, including SAP Labs data centres
- 2013 to 2014Infosys and ClogenyCloud research, then lead DevOps engineer
- 2011 to 2013Attune Infocom and TCSCloud consultant, and where I started
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Gujarat University, 2011. Full history on LinkedIn.
Five books and an AI patent.
Applied OpenStack Design PatternsApress, 2016
Mastering AWS DevelopmentPackt, 2015
AWS Development EssentialsPackt, 2014
DynamoDB Applied Design PatternsPackt, 2014
Mule ESB CookbookPackt, 2013
US 11,334,348 B2
Machine learning that finds and fixes API specification drift. Granted 2022. Read the patent
More than 30 talks. Eight were recorded.
- Apr 2021API design collaborationAPIDays, SingaporeWatch
- Oct 2017The journey to DevSecOpsCloud Expo Asia, SingaporeSlides
- Nov 2016Let’s democratise deploymentsTopConf, TallinnWatch
- Nov 2016Test execution at 100× speedPSTC, PuneWatch
- Sep 2016Automate infrastructure with ChefDevSecOps Summit, PuneWatch
- Apr 2016Scaling with automationIT Automation Summit, BangaloreWatch
- Feb 2016Rapid infrastructure provisioningConfig Management Camp, GhentSlides
- Sep 2015Scaling under pressureHashiConf, PortlandWatch
Organising an event? Email [email protected].
In clients’ and managers’ own words.
“If you’ve got hard stuff to do, Uchit will get it done. And he’ll have a laugh with you along the way.”
“Uchit is one of those rare people who can balance technology with a business goal.”
“I highly recommend him for Cloud, Multi-Cloud, DevOps, DevSecOps and Quality Engineering roles without any reservations.”