Udai S.

Senior Data & AI Engineer | GenAI · LLMs · AI Agents · MCP · Claude Code | FinOps on AWS, GCP, Azure | Databricks · Python

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

About

I help companies cut cloud costs, modernize data platforms and ship GenAI products that actually make it to production. 15+ years engineering data and cloud infrastructure at AT&T, Xandr (Microsoft), Disney and consultancy focused on AI Engineering, Data Engineering, Cloud and Finops. 🛠️ What I do • FinOps & cloud cost optimization across AWS, GCP and Azure • Data platform engineering on Databricks, Snowflake and Delta Lake • GenAI & LLM platforms: RAG, Vector Databases, AI Agents, Agentic AI, MCP (Model Context Protocol) • Building with Claude Code, OpenAI, Anthropic APIs, and Local LLMs • MarTech & customer data platforms: Treasure Data, Twilio Segment • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD 📈 Recent impact • Leveraged AI and FinOps automation to reduce enterprise cloud spend by 20–40% while preserving performance and scalability • Cut Databricks pipeline runtime by up to 60% by migrating Apache Spark parquet jobs to Delta Lake • Developed RAG + Agentic AI workflows integrated with customer data platforms ⚙️ Tech stack Languages: Python, Go, Java, SQL, R Data: Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake, PySpark, Airflow, dbt, BigQuery, Apache Iceberg Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure (FinOps + Databricks certified) AI/ML: LLMs, RAG, Vector Databases, LangChain, AI Agents, Agentic AI, MCP, Prompt Engineering, Claude Code, OpenAI, Local LLMs DevOps: Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins MarTech: Treasure Data, Twilio Segment, Google Analytics 🤝 Let's connect Open to Senior Data Engineer, Cloud Engineer, AI/ML Engineer, and FinOps leadership roles.

Experience

  • Cloud Data Consultant at cloptim
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Cost Optimization FinOps at The Walt Disney Company
    Mar 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Xandr (3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Software Engineer Data Platform
      Jun 2019 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    • Senior Software Development Engineer - Big Data
      Sep 2018 - Jun 2019 · 10 mos

  • AT&T (6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Software Development Engineer - Big Data
      Nov 2017 - Sep 2018 · 11 mos

    • Senior Software Development Engineer
      Jan 2012 - Nov 2017 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Software Development Engineer at Rhapsody International
    Oct 2010 - Nov 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos