Summary
Utsav P is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and educator based in Seattle with nine years of professional experience and over a decade of hands-on work in architecture, design, and product development. He co-founded Preppable to help candidates crack MAANG+ interviews using an adaptive, science-backed coaching platform and previously raised a $750K seed round for Jarayo by leading product-to-market execution. At Microsoft he built and led teams delivering distributed CI/CD systems and next-generation secure, scalable Azure IoT services, marrying operational rigor with developer productivity. As the creator of Engineering with Utsav, he educates a 230k+ audience, translating complex systems and interview practices into practical learning. Comfortable switching between deep engineering and strategic leadership, he combines academic training in CS with startup grit and a track record of shipping production systems that measurably improve hiring and engineering outcomes. An observer might not expect that alongside cloud-scale systems he also shipped a Bayesian classifier early in his career with upper-80% accuracy, highlighting his applied machine learning instincts.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Mathematics at Loras College
Nepali, English