Uday Teja
About Uday Teja
Uday Teja is a Splunk/New Relic Team Lead/Developer at MassMutual in Boston, Massachusetts, with extensive experience in Splunk development and architecture.
Current Role at MassMutual
Uday Teja currently serves as the Splunk/New Relic Team Lead and Developer at MassMutual in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. In this role, Teja is responsible for leading the team that manages and develops Splunk and New Relic solutions. This includes overseeing the performance monitoring and data analytics functionalities within the organization.
Previous Experience at CMS
Uday Teja worked at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a Splunk ITSI Developer from 2020 to 2021. During his 7-month tenure in Chantilly, Virginia, Teja focused on developing IT Service Intelligence solutions using Splunk. His role included creating dashboards, reports, and alerts to support the agency's data analytics and monitoring needs.
Role at Health Resources and Services Administration
From 2019 to 2020, Teja was employed at Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) as a Senior Splunk ITSI Developer. In this capacity, he spent 8 months in Reston, Virginia, developing and optimizing Splunk IT Service Intelligence applications aimed at improving system monitoring and operational efficiencies.
Employment at BCBS
Teja held the position of Senior Splunk Architect/Developer at Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) from 2017 to 2019. Over a 2-year period in Newark, New Jersey, he was pivotal in architecting and developing Splunk solutions that facilitated data-driven decision-making and real-time system monitoring.
Splunk Engineer at Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Between 2016 and 2017, Teja worked at Pacific Gas and Electric Company as a Splunk Engineer for 11 months in the San Francisco Bay Area. His responsibilities included designing and implementing Splunk infrastructure to ensure high availability by configuring clusters across multiple data centers, along with performing field extractions and transformations using RegEx.
Splunk Development at Smark Info Solutions
Teja's career includes a two-year period from 2014 to 2016 at Smark Info Solutions in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. As a Splunk Developer, he worked on various projects that involved configuring and upgrading Splunk Enterprise servers and Splunk Universal Forwarders, as well as developing REST-based web services for application communications.
Early Career at GlobalSign.in
From 2013 to 2014, Teja was employed as a PL/SQL Developer at GlobalSign.in in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. During his one-year tenure, he developed and maintained PL/SQL scripts, contributing to the backend development tasks essential for the company's software applications.
Technical Skills and Tools
Throughout his career, Teja has gained proficiency with a variety of technical tools and practices. He has designed and managed Splunk infrastructures, performed field extractions and transformations using RegEx, and supported Splunk version upgrades. His technical toolkit includes Maven for building and deploying applications, implementing HTTP requests using the RxJS Observable library, and conducting end-to-end testing with Protractor in Angular projects.
Agile Methodology
Uday Teja follows Agile methodology in his development process. He has actively participated in Scrum meetings, including Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Planning, and Grooming sessions. This approach has enabled him to manage projects effectively, ensuring timely delivery and continuous improvement in the development cycle.