Headline

Engineering Leader (17+ Yrs) | Scaling AI-Native Architectures & High-Perf Teams | Microservices & Event-Driven Systems | 75% Latency Reduction Expert

About

Passionate Engineering Leader | Architecting the Future of AI-Native Distributed Systems With over 16 years of experience, I specialize in the intersection of High-Scale Distributed Systems and Modern AI Infrastructure. My career has been defined by a single mission: transforming complex, legacy architectures into agile, high-performance ecosystems that drive business growth. As an Engineering Manager, I don’t just build software—I build elite engineering cultures. I have a proven track record of scaling global teams and navigating the shift from monolithic platforms to Cloud-Native Microservices and Event-Driven AI Pipelines. Core Expertise & Impact: AI & LLMOps: Architecting scalable infrastructures for AI integration, focusing on RAG, vector databases, and optimizing model inference. System Transformation: Spearheaded migrations that reduced system latency by 75% and boosted overall application performance by 25%. Cloud & Platform Engineering: Expert in AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker, delivering $150K in annual infrastructure savings through strategic optimization. Engineering Excellence: Champion of Agile (SAFe) and DevOps; my mentorship programs have consistently improved code quality by 20%.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

Work experience

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Walmart Global Tech India, Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Automated Creative Generation (AdTech): Leading the development of an AI-driven platform within the Walmart Advertisement Technology (ABS) business that enables advertisers to autonomously generate high-fidelity display ads.AI/ML Innovation: Spearheaded end-to-end automation pipelines using agentic orchestration and computer vision for asset segmentation, increasing creative production throughput by 40%.Operational Impact: Reallocated 1,000+ manual work hours per quarter and reduced infrastructure overhead by up to 20% through cost-efficient RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) patterns.Campaign Management (DOOH): Directed full-stack teams in designing Digital Out of Home (DOOH) and Display Campaign Management Systems across global markets including the US, Canada, and Mexico.Architecture & Scale: Championed the adoption of Microservices and Micro-frontend architectures, delivering $78K in annual cloud savings through optimized resource allocation.

Software Engineering Manager at Cardinal Health, Oct 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Healthcare Solutions: Managed the "Outcomes" patient management platform, a mission-critical healthcare solution focused on improving patient health results. Digital Transformation: Led the modernization of a legacy ColdFusion application into a scalable architecture using microservices and micro-frontends, generating $20M in revenue. Performance Optimization: Achieved a 99% improvement in document upload performance through strategic data re-architecture and a phased replacement of the legacy backend. Scalability Wins: Enabled $1M in additional revenue by designing a bulk upload feature that increased pharmacist onboarding capacity by 3900%.

Senior Software Engineer at Cargill, Aug 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Large-Scale Asset Management: Managed an event-driven Asset Management System supporting 500 million documents with 99.9% uptime using S3, DynamoDB, and ElasticSearch.Real-time Data Processing: Implemented Apache Kafka as a message broker to handle 10,000 events per second, successfully reducing document processing latency by 30%.Infrastructure & DevOps: Orchestrated a comprehensive architectural overhaul resulting in a 40% improvement in scalability, while integrating Docker and Kubernetes to reduce system downtime by 15%.Security & Agility: Pioneered an OAuth security framework that decreased security issues by 25% and implemented CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time by 40%.

Programmer Analyst III at Boeing, Sep 2017 - Aug 2020 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Developer Productivity: Architected "Path2Prod," a self-service automation platform that reduced tool-chain onboarding time from 15 days to just 5 minutes.Platform Orchestration: Utilized Netflix Conductor, Java, and Spring Boot to automate the generation of end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for various frontend and backend repositories.Engineering Excellence: Won a prestigious award for developing a robust authorization microservice integrating RBAC and ABAC security protocols for enterprise-level access control.

Senior Software Engineer at Techno Business Solutions, Jul 2016 - Sep 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Enterprise Applications: Developed high-efficiency employee and requisition management solutions using Spring Boot and Thymeleaf.E-Learning & Training: Built a comprehensive e-Learning portal using Moodle to facilitate employee training in specialized fields like Big Data and Cloud computing.Collaborative Tooling: Delivered advanced collaboration features for the Survey Lab portal, including automated survey creation and complex document editing systems.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology

Java Programming Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering, Udacity

Public links

github: https://github.com/vikas2cool18