He served as the Controller of Security, Protocol, Administration, Foreign trips of President at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

[1] He represented the Telangana region in an all party meeting held by the then Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in January 2011 to discuss the Srikrishna Committee report.

[4] He served as the official president of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) from March 2015 until June 2021.

[1][6] In 2023 Assembly Elections he contested from Huzurnagar and won with a majority of 44888 votes on BRS candidate Shanampudi Saidireddy.

Uttam Kumar Reddy played the role of a chief minister in the movie Terror (2016).