Bhargava kakrannaya

Senior Engineering Manager II @ Walmart Global Tech

About

I’m a results-driven engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building large-scale platforms, leading high-performing teams, and delivering technology that powers real-world impact. At Walmart Global Tech, I lead core systems behind Walmart’s global commerce engine—ranging from real-time ingestion platforms to AI-powered catalog automation serving billions of items.What sets me apart is my ability to blend deep technical expertise with business insight and people-first leadership. I’m passionate about building inclusive, empowered teams that take ownership, grow together, and innovate boldly. Whether it’s mentoring engineers, aligning cross-functional partners, or leading through change—I lead with clarity, empathy, and drive. 💡 Areas of impact: • Distributed systems & data platforms at massive scale • Scalable AI & automation in enterprise workflows • Technical strategy & execution excellence • Leadership development & team growth Let’s connect—I’m always excited to learn, build, and collaborate on what’s next.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco Bay Area

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, Large Scale Systems, Gen AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Java, Big Data Analytics, Spring, Node.js, Cassandra, Maven, Solr, Machine Learning, Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, C, JavaScript, Lucene, MySQL, JSON

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager II

Walmart Global Tech

2023-12 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Managing team responsible for developing data pipelines for all Walmart ingestions. Generative AI Application – Spearheaded the integration of GenAI into enterprise workflows for automation and quality improvement. Building Agentic AI solutions for automated item setup use cases Scalable System Design – Building resilient platforms processing billions of events daily using Kafka, Cassandra, and real-time frameworks.

Senior Engineering Manager

Walmart Global Tech

2021-10 - 2023-12 · 2 yrs 3 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Leading the team of engineers in building next generation item setup platform at scale supporting billions of ingestions per day

Staff Software Engineer

Walmart Global Tech

2019-8 - 2021-10 · 2 yrs 3 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Leading the team responsible for creation of Walmart item setup specification at scale. Responsible for design and implementation of schema registry for maintaining the attributes and the contracts of various systems at scale reducing the number of days to onboard the item setup contracts from 4 weeks to realtime.

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart Global Tech

2017-4 - 2019-8 · 2 yrs 5 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

•Worked on building the components responsible for maintenance and creation of online and store catalog of Walmart. • Responsible for creation of the Walmart enterprise spec for item setup.

Software Engineer III

Walmart Global Tech

2015-6 - 2017-4 · 1 yr 11 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

• Implementation of the item set up orchestration pipeline and services for Walmart online catalog at scale. • Implementation of validation and enrichment services for catalog management. • Developed analytics module for deriving metrics for item setup.

Software Development Intern

Walmart Global Tech

2014-6 - 2015-5 · 1 yr

San Francisco Bay Area

Technologies used: • Cassandra. • Apache Solr. • Spring • TestNG Development of Merchandising Center Tool for merchants to interact with suppliers. Implementation of web services using Apache CXF, reporting framework using SOLR and Cassandra , performance suite using TestNG.

Graduate Student

North Carolina State University

2013-8 - 2015-5 · 1 yr 10 mos

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

I am pursuing my Masters in the field of Computer Science to keep up with my passion to increase my knowledge in this interesting field. Exposure to prior industry experience has added a new dimension to my learning.

Associate L2

SapientNitro

2010-7 - 2013-7 · 3 yrs 1 mo

BANAGLORE

I worked as a Java developer for a J2EE based E-commerce platform called as ATG. Work involved front end development, Integration of Messaging framework, leading of a track, continuation interaction with clients.

Intern

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2010-3 - 2010-5 · 3 mos

Developed an eclipse plugin for a datawarehousing tool using GMF

Intern

AOL

2007-1 - 2007-7 · 7 mos

http://www.joomla.org/

Worked on building a content management system for college website using Joomla, which is a free and open-source content management framework (CMS) for publishing web content. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS.Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques and software design patterns which stores data in a MySQL.