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Ankit Goel

Immediate Joiner | SDE 3(JAVA + AI) @ Walmart || 7 Years | Java 17 + AI | System Design | Microservices | Spring Boot | REST API | Kafka | Postgres | Docker | Gradle | LLM | Jenkins | Splunk | GCP | Prompt Engineering

Bengaluru

7+ years of work experience

Walmart Global Tech India
Dec 20232 yrs 10 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

•Designed scalable backend components and APIs for high-volume distributed systems, improving service reliability and reducing production failures. •Optimized Kafka-based systems using event-driven architecture and backpressure handling, improving throughput by 35% and preventing $2M+ potential downtime. •Built observability systems (logging, monitoring, alerting) using Splunk, and leveraged AI-assisted tools for log analysis, debugging, and faster root cause identification, which improved incident detection time and production reliability. •Leveraged LLM-based tools (ChatGPT, Copilot) to accelerate development workflows, including code generation, debugging, and system analysis, improved engineering productivity. •Owned end-to-end development of backend services, from low-level design to deployment, ensuring stability in a 24×7 production environment •Led sprint planning and backlog execution across services, improving delivery predictability and on-time releases. •Mentored junior engineers and streamlined onboarding, improving team productivity and reducing ramp-up time.
UKG
Mar 20221 yr 10 mosDec 2023

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

•Designed and developed high-scale REST APIs powering multi-tenant SaaS platforms used globally, improving interoperability across distributed systems. •Optimized high-traffic APIs and data access layers, reduced latency by 30% and improving performance for globally used SaaS applications. •Led API integrations across legacy systems, enabling 90% faster internal adoption and improving platform interoperability. •Identified and resolved a critical security vulnerability, improving platform reliability and protecting 100K+ users. •Implemented centralized logging and alerting using Splunk, improving observability and reducing incident response time. •Contributed to system design decisions for scalable and maintainable backend services.
Infogain
Apr 20193 yrsMar 2022

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Cigna Insurance Company(A Top US Insurance Company) -Worked as full stack developer using skills like >Java >JSP >REST APIs >Spring framework(Spring Boot, etc) >SQL >Linux shell scripting >Agile >Oracle KM - Requirement Analysis. -Search & Knowledge Implementation, Customisation and Integration of Oracle Knowledge Management System -Guided the team towards efficient solution. -Mentored new joiners. Egain - Back End Developer for Egain, Seach, Knowledge and Digital Customer Engagement Projects. -Java -Angular JS -Troubleshooting of system issues as they arise. -Worked with the team in Agile Project Methodologies.
Infogain
Jan 20193 mosMar 2019

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Worked as a software engineer trainee and learned I was trained in Core JAVA, JDBC,JSP, Hibernate, Spring Frameworks, RESTful Web services, SQL and made a dummy project on Banking Management System.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd
May 20182 mosJun 2018

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Learnt all about the connection and error they face in their day to day work and how a minor error can cost them a big time. Made a console for them which checked the connection to their other devices and to check whether they are working fine or not.

Ankit’s AI Stack

anthropic apis
anthropic apis
claude code
claude code
claude
claude
codex
codex
cursor
cursor
gemini
gemini

Education

DIT University

B.tech, Information Technology

DIT University

20154 yrs2019
DIT University

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology

DIT University

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Headline

Immediate Joiner | SDE 3(JAVA + AI) @ Walmart || 7 Years | Java 17 + AI | System Design | Microservices | Spring Boot | REST API | Kafka | Postgres | Docker | Gradle | LLM | Jenkins | Splunk | GCP | Prompt Engineering

About

6.5+ Years in product based companies as Java Developer || Immediate Joiner || Java 17+ | AI Assisted Development | Prompt Engineering | LLM | System Design | Data Structure | Microservices | Spring MVC/Boot | REST API | Kafka | MySQL | Postgres | Docker | Gradle | Bit Bucket | Jenkins | Splunk | GCP

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

gemini

Work experience

Software Development Engineer III at Walmart Global Tech India, Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, •Designed scalable backend components and APIs for high-volume distributed systems, improving service reliability and reducing production failures. •Optimized Kafka-based systems using event-driven architecture and backpressure handling, improving throughput by 35% and preventing $2M+ potential downtime. •Built observability systems (logging, monitoring, alerting) using Splunk, and leveraged AI-assisted tools for log analysis, debugging, and faster root cause identification, which improved incident detection time and production reliability. •Leveraged LLM-based tools (ChatGPT, Copilot) to accelerate development workflows, including code generation, debugging, and system analysis, improved engineering productivity. •Owned end-to-end development of backend services, from low-level design to deployment, ensuring stability in a 24×7 production environment •Led sprint planning and backlog execution across services, improving delivery predictability and on-time releases. •Mentored junior engineers and streamlined onboarding, improving team productivity and reducing ramp-up time.

Senior Software Engineer at UKG, Mar 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, •Designed and developed high-scale REST APIs powering multi-tenant SaaS platforms used globally, improving interoperability across distributed systems. •Optimized high-traffic APIs and data access layers, reduced latency by 30% and improving performance for globally used SaaS applications. •Led API integrations across legacy systems, enabling 90% faster internal adoption and improving platform interoperability. •Identified and resolved a critical security vulnerability, improving platform reliability and protecting 100K+ users. •Implemented centralized logging and alerting using Splunk, improving observability and reducing incident response time. •Contributed to system design decisions for scalable and maintainable backend services.

Software Engineer at Infogain, Apr 2019 - Mar 2022 · 3 yrs, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Cigna Insurance Company(A Top US Insurance Company) -Worked as full stack developer using skills like >Java >JSP >REST APIs >Spring framework(Spring Boot, etc) >SQL >Linux shell scripting >Agile >Oracle KM - Requirement Analysis. -Search & Knowledge Implementation, Customisation and Integration of Oracle Knowledge Management System -Guided the team towards efficient solution. -Mentored new joiners. Egain - Back End Developer for Egain, Seach, Knowledge and Digital Customer Engagement Projects. -Java -Angular JS -Troubleshooting of system issues as they arise. -Worked with the team in Agile Project Methodologies.

Software Engineer Trainee at Infogain, Jan 2019 - Mar 2019 · 3 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Worked as a software engineer trainee and learned I was trained in Core JAVA, JDBC,JSP, Hibernate, Spring Frameworks, RESTful Web services, SQL and made a dummy project on Banking Management System.

Summer/Industrial Training at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd, May 2018 - Jun 2018 · 2 mos, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, Learnt all about the connection and error they face in their day to day work and how a minor error can cost them a big time. Made a console for them which checked the connection to their other devices and to check whether they are working fine or not.

Education

B.tech, Information Technology, DIT University

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, DIT University