Summary
Uday Kari is a civil engineer with 9 years of focused experience improving highway safety, mobility, and resilience through operations-driven strategies across county and state agencies. He currently leads stormwater, traffic management, and county beautification programs for Maui County, supervising multidisciplinary teams and overseeing MS4 compliance, traffic signal systems, and consultant contracts. Uday blends deep transportation engineering know-how with hands-on software and systems skills—having authored monitoring scripts, led data center operations, and piloted AI and detection technologies for traffic signals. His background spans enterprise architecture, DevOps, and solutions design in public and private sectors, from NOAA and the Military Health System to retail technology leadership. Known for creating collaborative working groups and practical innovations (like above-ground mast-arm detection on Maui), he excels at translating technical complexity into operational improvements. Based in Maui, he pairs regulatory and community coordination experience with a track record of integrating technology to make infrastructure safer and more resilient.
9 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Master of Science, Civil Engineering, Master of Science, Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech
Information Systems Certificate Program, Computer Science, Information Systems Certificate Program, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Science, Software Systems Engineering, Master of Science, Software Systems Engineering at George Mason University