Hello — I'm
Utpal Bhadra

Utpal Bhadra

I build scalable software where artificial intelligence, robotics and enterprise automation meet — and I enjoy the part where research becomes something that actually runs in production.

The Hague, Netherlands
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Technology isn't just my career — it's how I solve problems.

My journey began in robotics research, exploring synchronised autonomous movement inspired by the Japanese concept of Shuudan Koudou. Working with multi-agent systems taught me that the best systems emerge through collaboration — between machines, software and people. That mindset still shapes how I design software.

Professionally I've delivered AI-driven applications, enterprise automation and digital transformation across onshore, nearshore and offshore teams. I like simplifying complex problems, designing architectures that scale, and shipping things that create measurable value. Outside work I founded Velaris-App-OS, because open source is one of the best ways to share knowledge and help other engineers grow.

Obsession beats talent. Consistency builds excellence.
Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.

7+
Years in industry
16
Certifications
8+
Enterprise clients
3
Countries worked

Where I've worked.

Consultant — Infosys

Jul 2024 — Present · Netherlands

Network Congestion Management — CoE (Jun 2026 — Present). Built the front-end on Pega Constellation and used Pega Blueprint to design and generate a new Network Congestion Management solution — case lifecycle, data models and decisioning logic — and supported stakeholder adoption in an Agile/Scrum team.

Pega Cloud Migration — Telenet Group (Jan 2025 — Jun 2026). Delivering the recommendations and actions from the Pega Cloud Readiness Tool to keep the migration seamless. Ran end-to-end database migration analysis with custom SQL against the readiness reports to prove system compatibility, and moved real-time data from Pega to external systems over Kafka — topic configuration through to server integration. Reconciled Pega against a Snowflake data warehouse using BIX extracts for end-to-end data integrity, and delivered user stories to the Customer Decision Hub team.

Virgin Media Ireland — Liberty Global (Jul 2024 — Dec 2024). Business solutions on the Pega Customer Service framework, plus a Generative AI architecture that maps live customer conversations to the relevant Pega case and builds a chronological conversation map from dialogue transcripts for case context.

Pega ConstellationPega Blueprint Pega CloudKafkaSnowflake GenAISQL Customer Decision Hub

Consultant — CGI Nederland

May 2022 — Jul 2024 · Netherlands

Delivery lead, Customer Service Application — CoMetec (Jun 2023 — Jun 2024). Primary client contact, owning the application end to end — business analysis, requirements, key decisions, delivery and maintenance. Development and enhancement on Pega Customer Service for Insurance 8.8.4: automated triage of inbound email by subject matter, case creation through a custom API channel, log-file-driven case processing, back-office API integration, and daily workload extraction into Azure AD via Pega BIX. Designed the architecture for new processes in the application — and helped Pegasystems with product bugs found along the way.

Product Owner, AR/VR Innovation — Rabobank (Dec 2022 — Mar 2023). Shaped scope with the client and internal team, built a 3D model of Rabobank Utrecht in Blender and Unity for an AR/VR sustainable-investment experience, and demonstrated outcomes to stakeholders.

Assistant, Pega Low-Code/No-Code Master Class (2022). Supported every participant, built and demonstrated POCs of complex solutions, and coached people through their CSA exam.

Pega CS InsurancePega BIX Azure ADUnity BlenderMentoring

Associate Consultant — Capgemini

Mar 2017 — Aug 2019 · India

Pega developer (CSSA) for Vodafone, Sanofi, COX Communications and Group IT. Designed case management, process flows and UI/UX; configured access groups, SLAs, Connect-REST and listeners; extended out-of-the-box behaviour in Java where the project needed it. Owned properties, rules, rulesets, rule resolution, classes and inheritance, data types and parallel case processing, validation and refresh strategies, agent scheduling, user roles and audit — debugging through Clipboard, Tracer, logs and the rule inspector.

Pega PRPCJava Case ManagementConnect-REST SLA

Research & side work.

Feb 2026 — Present · Founder

Velaris-App-OS — open-sourced intelligent BPM platform

Cases that move through stages you define, forms and SLAs configured by the business rather than hard-coded, enterprise identity proven against live Okta and Entra tenants, and AI that proposes but never decides. Runs entirely on hardware you control — nothing phones home.

Multi-provider LLMs (Ollama, Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral) behind a consent gate; citation-backed case Q&A with RAG on PostgreSQL + pgvector; AI triage with risk scoring and human verification; Whisper speech-to-text; a live semantic knowledge graph; Temporal (BPMN 2.0) workflows and event sourcing.

PythonFastAPIReactTemporalpgvector / RAGSAML / SCIM / OIDCDockerK8
Apr 2021 — Sept 2021 · University of Hertfordshire

Shuudan Koudou — synchronised precision movement in a fleet of agents

The Japanese art of synchronised precision walking, applied to multi-agent robotics. Built in Python 3.8 with Webots for simulation and SUMO as the server-side controller monitoring movement. Applications: synchronised traffic management, coordinated robot movement on the factory floor, and robot mobility in a crowd.

PythonWebotsSUMOMulti-agent
Jan 2016 — Jul 2016 · Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering

Face recognition in a parallel environment

Face recognition parallelised across processes in C with MPICH2, with MATLAB used to model and validate the approach.

CMPICH2MATLABParallel computing

Products I build and sell.

Software I own end to end — designed, built, tested and supported by me. Self-hosted on your own infrastructure, with no SaaS lock-in and no data leaving your estate.

Velaris-App-OS
Open source · Available now

Velaris-App-OS

Intelligent BPM & case management platform
Your infra. Your choice. Zero SaaS lock-in.

Automate workflows, manage cases and surface AI-driven insights on infrastructure you control. Business users configure the process; developers are not the bottleneck.

Freeopen source · self-hosted
  • Free to use, source available — clone it, run it, change it
  • Case & process engine — stages, SLA clocks, assignment and escalation
  • Forms, workflows and SLAs configured by the business, not hard-coded
  • SAML 2.0, SCIM and OIDC, proven against live Okta and Entra tenants
  • Every decision recorded as it happens, with a date on it
  • Scheduled jobs and containerised RPA bots — sealed and digest-pinned
  • Self-hosted. Nothing phones home.
Coming soon

HxArbiter

Sovereignty & security policy engine
Policy you can read. Decisions you can prove.

Policies written in plain language, compiled to a deterministic evaluator. It decides — and every decision it makes is sealed into a tamper-evident chain, so "was this rule active on 3 March?" has an answer you can prove.

€—/ month
  • One engine across authorization, retention, encryption keys and consent
  • Deterministic evaluation — the AI authors the policy, never the verdict
  • Tamper-evident decision log, hash-chained and anchored
  • Activation intervals: prove which policy was live on any past date
  • Ships in shadow mode — nothing is enforced until an operator promotes it
  • Embeds in Velaris, or runs standalone against your own services
Live demo — soon Request early access

Looking for something in between, or a deployment on your own terms? Tell me what you need — both products are built to be run by the people who own the data.

What I work with.

And more importantly, whatever solves the problem better.

Tech stack

AI & LLMs

9
Claude Ollama OOpenAI Gemini Mistral DeepSeek scikit-learn NumPy pandas

Frontend

5
React TypeScript Vite Tailwind CSS D3.js

Data & streaming

6
PostgreSQL + pgvector VValkey Kafka MinIO Snowflake Splunk

Backend & workflow

9
Python FastAPI SQLAlchemy Pydantic Temporal PPega Java R CC

Platform & security

15
Docker Kubernetes Helm NGINX OpenBao Okta EMicrosoft Entra Prometheus OpenTelemetry LiveKit Ubuntu Git uv AAzure AAWS
Disciplines & methods

AI & machine learning

I start from the business decision, not the model. AI proposes and people decide: every answer cites its source, and no data leaves your estate without consent.

Machine Learning · Deep Learning · NLP · Generative AI · RAG & agents · Computer Vision · MCP

Enterprise automation

I map how work really flows before automating it, then put case lifecycles, decisioning and SLAs where the business can change them without waiting on developers.

Pega Constellation · Pega Blueprint · Customer Decision Hub · Pega BIX · BPMN 2.0 · Solution architecture

Security & operations

Security is designed in, not bolted on. Identity, access and secrets come first, and every decision leaves an audit trail a regulator can follow.

SAML / SCIM / OIDC · Okta / Entra ID · RBAC / ABAC · Encryption at rest · CI/CD · Observability

Robotics & simulation

Robotics taught me systems thinking: many independent agents, one shared goal. The same lens shapes how I design platforms and the teams that run them.

ROS2 · Webots · SUMO · MATLAB · Unity · Blender · Raspberry Pi · Arduino

Leadership & delivery

I own outcomes end to end, from the first stakeholder workshop to go-live. I turn business goals into a roadmap, align senior stakeholders around it, and coach the team so it keeps delivering.

Stakeholder management · Business case & roadmap · Client advisory · Delivery leadership · Agile / Scrum · Coaching & mentoring

Education & certifications.

MSc, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics with Advanced Research — University of Hertfordshire

Sep 2019 — Sep 2021

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering — Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering

Aug 2012 — July 2016

Certifications

Languages

English — nativeDutch — A2, improving Hindi — fluentBengali — native

Let's connect.

Always happy to hear from engineers, researchers, founders and technology leaders working in AI, robotics, automation, cloud or open source. Building something ambitious, or just enjoy exchanging ideas? Say hello.

utpalbhadra93@gmail.com
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