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# Vijay Swarnkar on Tal

## Headline

Principal Software Engineer at Walmart

## About

Principal Architect with 11\+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise data platforms, AI\-powered products and high\-scale distributed systems\. Currently leading multi\-team initiatives across data, analytics and AI, with a focus on AI\-first architecture, self\-service platforms, governance and enterprise platform modernization\. Architected and implemented an LLM\-powered, AI\-first analytics platform that transformed enterprise analytics from manual SQL and traditional BI workflows to natural\-language, AI\-assisted experiences—reducing dependency on SQL development and accelerating insight delivery\. Previously led high\-impact systems including payment optimization platforms processing billions of transactions, deep learning\-driven search and ranking at Amazon, and spam detection platforms improving content quality and trust\. Bring deep hands\-on expertise across backend engineering, distributed systems, machine learning and data engineering, with expertise spanning GenAI/LLMs, RAG, semantic search, semantic data models, RBAC, data governance, analytics and cloud platforms\. Strong at identifying gaps and inefficiencies in complex systems and turning them into simple, scalable and innovative solutions by thoughtfully leveraging AI and automation\. Passionate about building AI\-first, governed and self\-service data platforms and driving technical strategy and organization\-wide transformation through strong architecture and engineering execution\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

github copilot

langchain

## Work experience

Principal Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech India, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Transformed enterprise analytics interactions by architecting and implementing an AI\-first, LLM\-powered analytics platform, reducing dependency on manual SQL and traditional BI development cycles\.

Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech India, May 2023 \- Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Led the Data Engineering team for the end\-to\-end Sponsored Products journey, designing and optimizing scalable data pipelines, data models and analytics workflows to deliver clearer, faster and more reliable insights across the advertiser journey\. Built anomaly detection and automated alerting for data quality monitoring, improved pipeline efficiency and optimized the underlying technical infrastructure and processes, reducing infrastructure cost while improving measurement quality and strengthening advertiser trust\.

Software Engineer at Google, Nov 2021 \- May 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Google payments platform team\.\[Failure optimization using machine learning\]

Software Engineer at Uber, Mar 2021 \- Nov 2021 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Search Platform team\. \[Multi tenant search infrastructure, Lucene\]

Software Development Engineer at Amazon, Feb 2019 \- Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Search Science and AI\. \[Deep learning models training and deployment for search page results ranking use case\]

Associate Team Lead Developer at Directi, Jul 2018 \- Feb 2019 · 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Spam analysis for contextual advertising\. \[MongoDB, NodeJs, Redis, Druid\]

Software Engineer at Directi, Jun 2015 \- Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

## Education

Engineer's Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Indian Institute Of Information Technology allahabad

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