Utkarsh Johari

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Utkarsh

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Aspiring Product Manager | Rice MBA Candidate | Merit Scholar | GRE: 325
Rice MBA Scholar
Product Strategy
Technical Fluency
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About

Executive Summary

Background

Incoming MBA Candidate at Rice University (Class of 2028) transitioning into Product Management and Corporate Finance.

Previously spent 5 years at Vodafone (3x Star Performer), directing cloud platform expansions and diagnosing stalled adoption metrics to drive a 217% increase in daily active users.

I merge deep technical fluency in Cloud Architecture with rigorous data analytics to build scalable solutions. When I am not analyzing option chains, you can usually find me building custom PC rigs, pushing through my 5th gym session of the week, or trying to hit my daily 4-liter water intake goal.

Core Drivers

Interests

Product Strategy

Cross-Functional Leadership

Agile/Scrum

Financial Modeling

Product Strategy

Cross-Functional Leadership

Agile/Scrum

Financial Modeling

Education

Rice University - Jones Graduate School of Business

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Merit Scholarship — 80% of tuition; top 5% of admitted cohort

Aug 2026 - May 2028
Houston, Texas

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology

Electronics and Communication Engineering| GPA: 8.54/10

Jul 2017 - Jun 2021
Vellore, India

Product & Technical Arsenal

5 COMPETENCIES

Product Management

Roadmapping & Prioritization
PRD Writing & Scoping
Agile/Scrum (Sprint Planning)
Stakeholder Management
RCA & Problem Solving

Experience

WORK HISTORY

Professional Experience

3 POSITIONS

Assistant Manager

Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS)

uptime:Jan 2024 - Apr 2026
location:Pune, India
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Diagnosed causes behind stalled adoption (6%) of a newly launched product; redesigned onboarding and stakeholder demos, driving daily active users from 24 to 76 (+217%) within 21 days.
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Led the response to critical infrastructure risk across 50+ corporate clients, personally executing code-level changes under a compressed timeline to prevent estimated $100M in potential client revenue loss with zero disruption.
✓
Directed strategic platform expansion into second cloud provider across India and Germany, securing executive buy-in to unlock new client segment — onboarding 40+ corporate clients within 7 months.
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Led bi-weekly Agile sprint demos and cross-functional planning (sprint & PI planning, RCA reviews) for a 25-30 person audience spanning product, solutioning, and testing — translating technical delivery into business-ready updates every 2-week cycle.
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3x recipient, VOIS Star Performer Award — recognition awarded to 2-3 top performers selected from a 25-person team each cycle.
stack:Product AdoptionStakeholder ManagementAgile/ScrumStrategic Expansion

Senior Executive

Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS)

uptime:Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
location:Pune, India
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Conducted bottom-up cost analysis of non-production cloud spend; identified $61K in annual inefficiency from idle overnight cloud instances and engineered a scheduling script, cutting dev/test environment costs 50% ($120K → $59K annually).
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Coordinated core platform features for Kubernetes lifecycle management on AWS EKS, scaling capabilities to support 50+ enterprise clients.
stack:Cost AnalysisAWS EKSPlatform ScalingOptimization

Graduate Engineer Trainee

Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS)

uptime:Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
location:Pune, India
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Ran proof-of-concept demonstrating unit testing workloads could run on medium instances instead of large with zero performance loss, then drove team adoption against initial resistance — cutting compute unit costs 40%.
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Deployed automated cleanup protocols identifying and terminating idle "zombie" instances left running by developers and testers after 7+ days of inactivity, reducing non-production compute costs by 35%.
stack:POC DevelopmentChange ManagementAutomation

Projects

PROJECT ARCHIVE
Collection v2.0
PROJECT_1FEATURED

MoniTrade — Risk Monitoring Platform

Because manually tracking 30+ high-volatility option trades is a terrible way to live, I conceptualized and built MoniTrade (React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL) as sole PM/engineer. It uses adaptive alert logic to filter market noise and fires real-time Telegram alerts only when genuine risks occur. You can either keep reading about it, or click on DEMO to experience what I am talking about!

Product ManagementAPI DesignSystem ArchitectureUI/UX
EXPERIENCE DEMO

Contact

CONTACT DETAILS

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I'm always interested in hearing about new projects and opportunities. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, feel free to reach out!

EMAIL

uj2@rice.edu

PHONE

+17132690427

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