Staff Product Manager / Senior Engineering Manager - Walmart Inc. - Bengaluru, India
(2021-03 - 2025)
Led product strategy and platform modernization across warehouse management systems, AI-enabled operational intelligence, and geospatial analytics supporting large-scale retail and supply chain operations.
- Owned enterprise WMS product roadmap spanning 33 warehouses and 3,000+ daily warehouse operators; defined multi-year rollout strategy with phased deployment plans across business units
- Accelerated platform launch timelines by 70% through prioritisation of high-impact capabilities and alignment of engineering delivery to business-critical workflows
- Improved OTIF (On-Time In-Full) performance from 70% to 95% through platform consolidation and process improvement features
- Led end-to-end inventory visibility initiative from supplier to customer across fragmented supply chain systems
- Built AI-driven operational dashboards using BigQuery and Cursor to monitor fulfillment throughput, warehouse receiving volumes, and operational bottlenecks
- Developed AI-powered Copilot agents to support WMS onboarding and self-service adoption
- Coordinated WMS rollout to 2 new automated warehouses handling high-velocity SKU fulfilment
- Owned product roadmap for internal geospatial analytics platform supporting store expansion and logistics decision-making across US and Central America markets
- Partnered with data science, engineering, and finance teams to deliver analytical dashboards and financial simulation tools
- Managed team of 6 engineers; defined technical roadmap, led hiring and mentorship, and ensured zero-impact production rollouts
- Drove agile delivery cadence, sprint planning, and cross-functional collaboration with PMO and architecture teams
Engineering Manager / Staff Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer - Visa Inc. - Bengaluru, India
(2015-09 - 2021-02)
Progressed from Senior Engineer to Engineering Manager across Fundamo mobile money platform and Visa Developer Platform (VDP API Gateway), serving 10,000+ global users.
- Drove product roadmap and platform prioritisation for Visa Developer Platform (API Gateway) enabling B2B payment API onboarding for global merchants and payment processors
- Reduced API onboarding timelines from 3 months to under 1 week through platform simplification and workflow standardisation; successfully onboarded 22 APIs
- Managed team of 6 engineers across hiring, performance planning, career development, and bi-monthly 1:1s
- Owned production triage as first point of contact; built deployment automation and anomaly detection systems to reduce MTTD
- Led Women in Technology charter in Bangalore; championed diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Led Fundamo migration from EJB/WebLogic monolith to Spring 3.x microservices on containerised infrastructure; managed cross-functional team of 4 devs, 2 QA, and 2 DevOps engineers
- Built canary deployment and rolling release automation for active-active production environments; implemented F5 Big-IP GTM iRules with <60s failover
- Designed and delivered end-to-end malware scanning capability for Visa's Cybersecurity platform, from feasibility analysis through production launch
- Led PoC replacing Splunk with Fluentd/Logstash as enterprise data ingestion framework, improving cost efficiency
Senior Software Engineer - Altimetrik - Chennai, India
(2014-11 - 2015-09)
- Built shared enterprise platform libraries for logging, database access, configuration management, and operational monitoring used across Visa engineering teams
- Led Java 6 to Java 8 migration across all platform components, ensuring backward compatibility and alignment with security standards
- Evaluated and selected Logback over Blitz4j as high-concurrency, configurable logging framework standard
Programmer Analyst - Excelacom Technologies - Chennai, India
(2011-06 - 2014-11)
- Designed and built telecom workflow orchestration and inventory management systems for Comcast Corporation using SOA/WSDL architecture
- Integrated Google Address API for address standardisation and network inventory management; built bulk import/export services at scale
- Delivered R&D prototypes for scheduling, SFTP file transfer, and encryption/decryption; supported functional, integration, and performance testing
