Summary
Utsha Khondkar is a software engineer based in Austin with eight years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and applied ML solutions. Currently on WhatsApp’s Calling Media Team at Meta, she brings production-grade expertise from prior roles delivering LLM, NLP, and computer vision projects at Chevron and distributed edge ML at UT Austin’s MPC Lab. Her background spans end-to-end MLOps, infrastructure-as-code, and real-time systems—skills honed while deploying distributed PyTorch workloads across Raspberry Pi clusters and shipping features for AWS CloudWatch. Utsha blends research-driven experimentation with pragmatic engineering, routinely validating designs with real-device benchmarks and stakeholder-facing metrics. She’s especially strong at turning multimodal research prototypes into reliable services that scale in production. Based in the Austin tech ecosystem, she pairs deep technical rigor with a clear focus on operational robustness.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Engineering, Master of Science Computer Engineering at Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin