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Akshay Ubale

Senior DevOps Engineer

Akshay Ubale is a DevOps Engineer with a strong cloud infrastructure, automation, and disaster recovery background. He has spent much of his career designing and maintaining high-availability and scalable application environments, focusing on security and performance. He brings a deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, problem-solving, and analytical thinking, especially in high-pressure environments.

Before joining ResFrac, Akshay gained extensive experience in India’s dynamic startup ecosystem, where he explored diverse technologies and tools to enhance system reliability and efficiency.

Akshay earned his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from PES University in Bangalore.

Outside of work, Akshay is interested in space exploration and stays informed on current events, particularly geopolitics. He enjoys discovering new people and places as an outgoing person, avid traveler, and trekker. He has covered thousands of kilometers on his motorbike, often exploring hilly terrains. He also has a deep appreciation for music and enjoys listening to a wide variety of genres in his downtime.

Akshay's posts

Production impact of horizontal fractures

At the 2025 SPE International Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, we (Dontsov, Zoback, McClure, and Fowler) presented “Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Along Bedding Planes Might Be More Prevalent Than We Think” (SPE-226637). The paper reviewed case studies with evidence of horizontal or bedding plane fractures from microseismic, fiber optics, core observations, and casing deformation.

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Testing the new Kryvenko model for proppant washout

What controls proppant placement during hydraulic fracturing? As described in Chapter 8 from McClure et al. (2025), ResFrac incorporates a variety of physical processes – viscous drag, gravitational settling, hindered settling, clustered settling, bed slumping, and more. In addition, ResFrac accounts for the complex physics associated with proppant flowing out of the wellbore (Dontsov, 2023; Ponners et al., 2025).

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