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title: "Pankaj Dhakre - Staff Software Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Pankaj Dhakre on Tal

## Headline

Staff Software Engineer at Walmart

## About

To be a part of highly motivated team and to use my knowledge and experience I have gained to obtain better position in a professional firm and specialize in application software development\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude

codex

cursor

github copilot

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at Walmart, Dec 2023 \- Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Walmart, May 2021 \- Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Migrated 35\+ Mobile Office APIs from BFF to dedicated services, eliminating architectural bottlenecks\. Redesigned Mobile Office SGA caching architecture, reducing backend dependency load by \~80%\. Simplified identity model reducing 20\+ legacy roles to 6, saving $20K annually\. Implemented circuit breaker & rate limiting protection, improving system resilience during holiday peak traffic\. Built Splunk observability dashboards, enabling proactive monitoring during high\-traffic holiday events\.

Software Engineer III at Walmart, May 2017 \- Apr 2021 · 4 yrs

Software Engineer II at Snapdeal, Jun 2016 \- May 2017 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Snapdeal, Mar 2015 \- Jun 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Data Engineer at Hewlett\-Packard, Apr 2014 \- Mar 2015 · 1 yr, Bangalore, India, Comprehensive datawarehouse management and migration from various Source to ODS to EDW\.

Technology Consultant I at Hewlett\-Packard, Jun 2013 \- Apr 2014 · 11 mos, Bangalore, India, Generated new development for data extraction from various source using PLSQL procedures and ODI Tool\. Also,worked on implementation of several checks during and after data load, to maintain Data Integrity\.

Data Engineer at HP, Oct 2012 \- Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Built enterprise data pipelines supporting analytics, reporting and large\-scale BI platforms\. Developed scalable data transformation workflows used across multiple enterprise applications\.

Technology Consultant Ib at Hewlett\-Packard, Oct 2012 \- Jun 2013 · 9 mos, Bangalore, india, Performed impact analysis for the reports generated\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Information Technology, Institute of Technology and Management, Gwalior \(M\.P\.\)

Senior Secondary, Mathematics, Venus Public Higher Secondary School

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