Utsav Shah
Principal Engineer at Direct Line Group
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolUtsav Shah is a Principal Engineer based in Birmingham with 11 years building resilient, enterprise-grade back-end systems and leading platform teams. He specializes in Java and Spring Boot ecosystems—delivering SSO, IAM, auditing and security-first solutions with Keycloak, Spring Security and Kubernetes while driving tech refreshes and migrations. Utsav has a strong record of operational impact, from removing PII from logs for GDPR compliance to cutting ~£150k/year in costs by decommissioning unused environments. Equally comfortable mentoring engineers and shipping code, he has delivered high-throughput ETL pipelines, reactive services and microservices that scaled to millions of rows and reduced reporting latency by 90%. His Instrumentation & Control background shows in a hands-on habit of prototyping hardware and integrating systems, giving him a practical systems-thinking edge beyond pure software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary School Physics Chemistry and Maths, Higher Secondary School Physics Chemistry and Maths at Navrang Higher Secondary SchoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Instrumentation And Control, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Instrumentation And Control at Nirma University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (7)
react8
trello8
web-application8
webapp8
javascript7
typescript7
ux-design6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
utsavpshah/Gesture-Controlled-Robot
Mar 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
utsavpshah/sample-maven-project
Feb 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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