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Harshit S.

Data @ Walmart | 11+ Years | Big data & Distributed systems architect

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Walmart Global Tech India
Oct 20214 yrs 7 mosApr 2026

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

At Walmart Global Tech India, I played a pivotal role in developing a robust ad inventory platform. I defined the technical roadmap for both streaming ingestion and batch computation layers, fostering cross-functional collaboration with Product and DevOps teams. Led the development of key KPIs for advertiser focused usecases. This platform facilitated real-time forecasting to meet various advertiser objectives, showcasing my ability to drive innovation in a fast-paced environment. Led modernization of infrastructure and led key code quality improvements. Setup best practices around CI/CD. Led cost saving efforts for batch pipelines that helped to save $25k/month.
American Express
Jul 20192 yrs 3 mosSep 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed managed services on the Amex Big Data platform, prioritizing developer experience and self-provisioning. • Utilized Hadoop stack products including HBase, HDFS, Hive, and Spark, along with Kafka for batch and stream processing. • Automated deployment processes using CI/CD tools, enhancing operational efficiency. • Conducted POCs to evaluate cloud vendors for American Express's big data strategy.
American Express
Jul 20192 yrs 3 mosSep 2021

Managed Services on Amex Big Data Platform: • Platform scalability & Developer experience: Secured and optimized multi-tenancy access to underlying MapR M7,M5 volumes, significantly enhancing developer experience and platform security. • Microservices Orchestration: Architected and deployed a high-throughput HDFS streaming service on Kubernetes, designing chunk-based data transfer protocols and MySQL-driven metadata tracking to ensure fault-tolerant, resumable file access for global data consumers.
Valtech India
Oct 20187 mosApr 2019

Gurgaon, India

• Spearheaded the migration of a monolithic application to a microservices architecture, enhancing system scalability and maintainability. • Implemented financial transaction capture and payload delivery to third-party applications using Spring Integration and AWS SQS queues. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of microservices.
Infosys
May 20153 yrs 5 mosSep 2018

Pune Area, India

• Led the modernization of an in-house enterprise application by transitioning from a legacy 3-tier MVC architecture to a Spring Boot microservices architecture. • Developed a highly concurrent multi-threaded image converter to transform Tiff files into lightweight SVG formats. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and performance optimization.
Defence Research and Development Organisation
Jun 20146 mosNov 2014

Greater Hyderabad Area

To design a Turbo Decoder for Software Defined Radio using VHDL. The project included coding in VHDL and testing the logic using modelsim tool.

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Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur

20114 yrs2015
Lucknow Public School

Lucknow Public School

20082 yrs2010

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Headline

Data @ Walmart | 11+ Years | Big data & Distributed systems architect

About

Staff Software Engineer | 11+ Years | Distributed Systems & Big Data Architect

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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langchain

langgraph

mcp

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech India, Oct 2021 - Apr 2026 · 4 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Walmart Global Tech India, I played a pivotal role in developing a robust ad inventory platform. I defined the technical roadmap for both streaming ingestion and batch computation layers, fostering cross-functional collaboration with Product and DevOps teams. Led the development of key KPIs for advertiser focused usecases. This platform facilitated real-time forecasting to meet various advertiser objectives, showcasing my ability to drive innovation in a fast-paced environment. Led modernization of infrastructure and led key code quality improvements. Setup best practices around CI/CD. Led cost saving efforts for batch pipelines that helped to save $25k/month.

Engineer II at American Express, Jul 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Developed managed services on the Amex Big Data platform, prioritizing developer experience and self-provisioning. • Utilized Hadoop stack products including HBase, HDFS, Hive, and Spark, along with Kafka for batch and stream processing. • Automated deployment processes using CI/CD tools, enhancing operational efficiency. • Conducted POCs to evaluate cloud vendors for American Express's big data strategy.

Software Engineer at American Express, Jul 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Managed Services on Amex Big Data Platform: • Platform scalability & Developer experience: Secured and optimized multi-tenancy access to underlying MapR M7,M5 volumes, significantly enhancing developer experience and platform security. • Microservices Orchestration: Architected and deployed a high-throughput HDFS streaming service on Kubernetes, designing chunk-based data transfer protocols and MySQL-driven metadata tracking to ensure fault-tolerant, resumable file access for global data consumers.

Senior Software Engineer at Valtech India, Oct 2018 - Apr 2019 · 7 mos, Gurgaon, India, • Spearheaded the migration of a monolithic application to a microservices architecture, enhancing system scalability and maintainability. • Implemented financial transaction capture and payload delivery to third-party applications using Spring Integration and AWS SQS queues. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of microservices.

Senior System Engineer at Infosys, May 2015 - Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Pune Area, India, • Led the modernization of an in-house enterprise application by transitioning from a legacy 3-tier MVC architecture to a Spring Boot microservices architecture. • Developed a highly concurrent multi-threaded image converter to transform Tiff files into lightweight SVG formats. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and performance optimization.

Internship at Defence Research and Development Organisation, Jun 2014 - Nov 2014 · 6 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, To design a Turbo Decoder for Software Defined Radio using VHDL. The project included coding in VHDL and testing the logic using modelsim tool.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur

Lucknow Public School

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