Uday Kiran Padhy

Senior Software Engineer

Building scalable, robust software / AI applications and solving complex system architecture problems.

About Me

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Gainsight, working at the intersection of LLM-powered product features and high-throughput backend infrastructure. Day to day that's Python — FastAPI services, AI multi-agent orchestration, running on AWS and GCP.

I care about code that's easy to debug at 2 AM, observability that catches problems before customers do, and AI features that ground their answers in real data instead of hallucinating. Off-hours I build AI tooling, automating workflows, exploring new LLM capabilities and reading research papers. Sometimes play chess, hit the gym, go for a run, or jam to some music.

Languages & Foundations
Python TypeScript AI/ML modeling System design
AI / ML
LangGraph Reinforcement Learning PyTorch Training and Tuning HuggingFace
Backend & APIs
FastAPI React Microservices Distributed Systems Event-Driven Architecture Authentication and Authorization
Cloud & Infra
AWS GCP Docker Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Observability and Monitoring
Data
PostgreSQL NoSQL ETL & Data Modeling Vector Retrieval

Projects

More Projects

Curated archive of algorithmic problem solutions with clear, didactic explanations.

Python Algorithms Data Structures
GitHub

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2025 - Present
Gainsight
  • Shipped 5+ enterprise grade features that landed Fortune 500 accounts including Intuit and Adobe; sustained 99.95% measured uptime across high stakes deployments.
  • Patched 2 critical Python CVEs flagged by Snyk; hardened the dependency footprint and held the dashboard at zero open critical findings.
  • Promoted internal APIs to public facing endpoints under proper authorization, enabling customers to integrate the platform into their own systems and workflows.
  • Built admin user dashboards over 5M+ data points with multiple criteria filtering, new writes propagate through an event driven pipeline so reads stay consistent within a fraction of few seconds.

Software Engineer

Aug 2023 - Aug 2025
Gainsight
  • Implemented 3 production agents (Moderation, Search, Translation) with stateful multi step reasoning, tool use, and conditional graph routing; reached 95% decision accuracy and automated previously manual moderation and translation workflows.
  • Rolled out SSO across the multi product platform with 5 identity providers (SAML 2, OAuth2, OpenID, Token, Google Sign In); replaced per product credential with a unified sign in surface.
  • Designed high throughput APIs serving 2M+ requests per day at ~500 RPS peak with P99 latency under 200ms; drove cost per request down 30% via caching, reiterating the architecture, and query plan tuning.
  • Extracted 2 team owned services out of the monolithic backend into independently deployable FastAPI microservices with dedicated scaling policies and CI pipelines, reducing deployment time from ~30 min to ~10 min and enabling per service hotfixes without a full system redeploy.
  • Stood up observability for microservices and AI workloads, CloudWatch alarms sustained 99.9% measured uptime and caught regressions before customer impact.
  • Built a rule based user segmentation engine with multi attribute predicates (registration recency, role, post counts, last activity windows); powers targeted audiences across the platform.

Associate Software Engineer

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
Gainsight
  • Standardized Python local dev with Docker Compose across the team's services and gave the team reproducible dev parity with production.
  • Built the platform's i18n framework supporting 20+ locales with message catalogs, plural rules, and RTL support; unblocked customer launches across EMEA and APAC.
  • Wrote 200+ unit, integration, and E2E tests for critical modules; raised line coverage from ~40% to ~75% and caught regressions pre merge in CI.
  • Automated CloudFormation IaC for 2 microservices (~83 AWS resources covering Lambda, RDS, IAM, Application Insights); provisioning with PR driven deploys.

Education

Bachelor of Technology

2018 - 2022
Sagi Rama Krishnam Raju Engineering College

Graduated with Honors. Specialized in Electronics Systems and Cloud Computing (IoT). Thesis focused on optimizing Antenna Design for IoT Devices.

Higher Secondary Education

2006 - 2018
Kendriya Vidyalaya

Completed Higher Secondary Education with a focus on Science and Mathematics.

Achievements

  • Leetcode Coding Contest Ranking
    Secured 233 Rank Worldwide during Weekly Contest 393. Consistently solving problems demonstrating strong problem-solving skills and algorithmic thinking.
  • Sixth Place - Smart India Tech Hackathon
    Led a team of 4 to build an application that enabled physically challenged people to access computers over a 24-hour period, beating over 100 competing teams.

Contact

Let's Work Together

Have a project in mind or looking to hire? I'm currently open to new opportunities and interesting collaborations.

kiranu941@gmail.com
Email Me