Utkarsh Pillai
Senior Software Engineer at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolUtkarsh Pillai is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of professional experience building cloud-native SaaS solutions and business analytics tooling, currently based in Redmond and pursuing an MS in Information Systems at the Kelley School of Business. He has held software roles at Microsoft and completed technology consulting work at Salesforce, blending product-facing engineering with real-world business use cases. An active open-source maintainer and approver within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Utkarsh has made notable contributions to the OpenTelemetry .NET ecosystem—extending log exporters, improving instrumentation for MassTransit and ElasticsearchClient, and helping evolve SDK integration across .NET targets. He combines strong backend engineering and systems design skills with a pragmatic focus on observability, and his cross-company experience gives him a knack for translating platform-level telemetry work into actionable insights for developers and operators.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, CoimbatoreMaster's degree, Information Systems, Master's degree, Information Systems at Indiana University BloomingtonAISSCE, English,Mathematics,Physics,Chemistry & Computer Science, AISSCE, English,Mathematics,Physics,Chemistry & Computer Science at Campion School BhopalAISSE, AISSE at Delhi Public School Bhopal
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Github Skills (17)
distributed-tracing10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
instrumentation10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
opentelemetry10
logging10
csharp10
telemetry10
amazon-elasticsearch9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
otel9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
This repository contains set of components extending functionality of the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK. Instrumentation libraries, exporters, and other components can find their home here.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 releases, 985 reviews, 149 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Utkarsh primarily focused on enhancing existing instrumentation libraries for the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK within the repository. Their contributions involved modifying instrumentation for MassTransit and ElasticsearchClient, incorporating sampling decisions to control activity generation and mapping tags effectively. They also updated the OpenTelemetry SDK version, and renamed and reorganized instrumentation folders, indicating a focus on improvements to the library and its integration with .NET applications. These changes suggest an effort to improve the stability and functionality of the instrumentation for the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK.
instrumentationdotnetexportersinstrumentation-librariessdk
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
The OpenTelemetry .NET Client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 2102 reviews, 143 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Utkarsh primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry .NET client by extending the ConsoleExporter to support logs. They added functionality to print LogRecord exceptions to the console and added net451 as a target framework for OpenTelemetry. Furthermore, the user also added an extension method to add the ConsoleExporter for logs and updated the logs getting-started documentation. Finally, they also updated the documentation for logs.
instrumentation-librariesiloggerprovidertracingloggingilogger
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