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Engineering Leader Building AI-Powered Solutions | Senior Engineering Manager @ Walmart | Ex-Adobe, Citrix | ISB Leadership with AI

About

Engineering leader with 18 years of experience building critical solutions for business, scalable platforms, leading global engineering teams, and driving AI-powered transformation across large technology organizations. Senior Engineering Manager II at Walmart Global Tech, leading multiple engineering teams delivering AI-enabled seller onboarding and marketplace platform reliability. My focus areas include: • AI-Driven Engineering Productivity – introducing agentic AI systems, RAG-based internal tools, and GitHub Copilot adoption across teams • Platform & Reliability Engineering – building highly resilient systems handling large scale commerce traffic • Developer Efficiency & Automation – reducing operational toil through intelligent automation • Scaling High-Performance Teams – building and mentoring teams across geographies Key impact highlights: • Improved marketplace reliability from ~20% negative customer experience to 99%+ positive experience • Led SRE for 250+ services supporting Walmart Marketplace globally • Built Azure-based enterprise IoT platform supporting 1200+ retail stores • Delivered systems that scaled 2–4x business growth with only ~20–30% team expansion Previously held engineering leadership roles at Citrix, Adobe, and Itron, building cloud platforms, SaaS systems, and large-scale distributed services. Passionate about the next evolution of engineering organizations where AI augments developers, accelerates delivery, and unlocks new product capabilities. Always interested in discussions around: • AI-enabled engineering teams • Platform engineering at scale • Developer productivity transformation • Future of agentic systems in enterprise platforms

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

gemini

github copilot

langchain

openai

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager - Marketplace Seller Onboarding (AI enabled team) at Walmart Global Tech India, Jul 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Walmart – AI Seller Onboarding Leading engineering for next-generation AI-powered seller onboarding and acquisition platform at Walmart Marketplace. Key contributions: • Building agentic AI onboarding systems using LangChain, OpenAI and MCP frameworks • Developing RAG-based internal AI tools to automate operational workflows • Improving seller onboarding funnel efficiency and time-to-go-live • Driving AI adoption across teams through GitHub Copilot enablement and internal workshops • Leading multiple teams (~35 engineers) across platform, reliability, and AI initiatives Global Marketplace Reliability Owned reliability and operational excellence for Walmart Marketplace platform (250+ services). Impact: • Improved system experience from ~20% negative events to 99%+ positive reliability • Led global SRE teams across US and India • Built SLI/SLO frameworks and error budget driven engineering culture • Managed Black Friday readiness and global peak events • Implemented self-healing automation and intelligent monitoring • Reduced operational noise and improved MTTD / MTTR performance

Engineering Manager 2 - Cloud Platform Engineering at Citrix, Aug 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs, Bangalore, • Led cloud platform engineering supporting high-scale enterprise services used by hundreds of millions of users • Designed Azure-based security monitoring automation platform • Led teams of 7–25 engineers across cloud platform initiatives • Partnered with product teams across Citrix Virtual Apps, Gateway, and Collaboration products

Walmart Enterprise IOT at Walmart Global Tech India, Feb 2019 - Aug 2019 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Handled delivery of Walmart Enterprise IOT - Azure Cloud based IOT solution to handle food wastage by controlling refrigerator temperature and HVAC units across 1200+ stores in US. MVP stage and phase 1 launch planning and strategy.

Principal Engineer - Cloud | IOT | Data Engineering at Itron, Inc., Jul 2016 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Architected and Delivered Scalable Cloud Solutions for Data Management and SaaS Products Designed and implemented highly available and scalable cloud-based data management services for ingesting, storing, transforming, and analyzing massive data volumes from IoT sensors, meters, and collection engines. Led the development of subscription and usage tracking services built on Azure cloud technologies (Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Storage) for managing various SaaS product subscriptions and defining usage limits. Demonstrated strong technical leadership, focusing 70% on architecture, design, and delivery, with an additional 30% dedicated to team management and fostering a collaborative DevOps culture. Daily responsibilities include design, design reviews, coding, code review, removing roadblocks, promoting team communication, and advocating for DevOps and continuous delivery practices

Technical Lead at Adobe, May 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Full-Stack Developer at Adobe: Delivering Innovative Solutions for Learning and Value Engineering Led the development of various tools for Adobe Training Services LMS and Adobe Global Services - Value Engineering, utilizing a modern tech stack of Node.js, AWS, and AEM. Owned projects end-to-end, managing requirements gathering, design, implementation, collaboration with QA, and infrastructure setup. Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills by effectively handling critical project situations.

Education

BTech in Computer Science, BVCEC, JNTU