Anchita S L Padmashali

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 11 years of software engineering and management experience
Achieved 60% reduction in infrastructure costs
Expert in AdTech with a focus on risk management

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in AdTech and Fintech, specializing in engineering management and risk optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementStrategic PlanningRisk Management

Other Skills

Ad TechArchitectural DesignCC++Core JavaData StructuresEclipseEngineering LeadershipJUnitJavaLinuxManual TestingMicrosoft OfficeMySQLProgramming

About

With 11+ years of experience in software engineering and management, I am a passionate and driven leader who strives to create a balance between building product features, maintaining and improving engineering hygiene, and investing in innovation. I currently oversee a team of engineers at Walmart Global Tech India, where I specialize in efficient team management, strategic development, and cost optimization. Some of my achievements include implementing a feature-centric approach for agile task planning and execution, achieving a 60% reduction in infrastructure costs through precise database and VM optimizations, spearheading the rapid development of a Multi-Tenant Fault Resolver, and collaborating on deployment strategies for Kafka-based applications. I also have extensive experience in the AdTech domain, where I built and enhanced a Risk Management module that acts as a circuit breaker to protect margin loss in a high-volume platform. I aspire to become an engineering leader who leads from the front and creates long-term value for the organization.

Experience

Walmart global tech india

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Payment System:
Led a comprehensive revamp of the payment system, streamlining the accounting and charging process while effectively managing complex business rules, regulations, and local tax laws.
Implemented an innovative feature to automatically select payment methods based on customer preferences and potential benefits, enhancing user experience and customer satisfaction.
Customer Communication System:
Devised a highly effective customer communication system, optimizing the frequency and timing of messages to enhance customer engagement and satisfaction.
Implemented a robust monitoring system to track business and engineering metrics, enabling data-driven decision-making and prompt action on critical issues.
Led the swift development of a Multi-Tenant Fault Resolver, significantly enhancing recovery processes and debuggability, resulting in improved system reliability and reduced downtime.
Conducted thorough assessments to identify gaps, updates, or modifications between customer/business expectations and existing products/solutions, ensuring alignment with agile methodology iterations.
Proactively identified potential risks or issues during the requirements gathering phase, informed relevant stakeholders, and recommended corrective steps to mitigate impact.
Effectively understood customer requirements, and conducted gap analyses between existing architecture and customer needs, ensuring alignment and optimizing solution delivery.
Conducted in-depth system performance analysis, focusing on non-functional requirements such as reliability, operability, performance efficiency, and security, thus ensuring the overall product met stringent quality standards.
Spearheaded the design of software, production and pre-production environments, and deployment pipeline, facilitating the continuous generation of records for telemetry, thus enhancing system monitoring and data-driven decisions.

Engineering LeadershipStrategic PlanningRisk AssessmentArchitectural DesignEngineering ManagementTeam Building

Inmobi

4 roles

Associate Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – Dec 2021 · 5 mos

Leading the Engineering Team for AdTech business.
Bridging the gap between the product, business, and engineering.
Creating a culture of self-motivated engineers owning the piece of work with accountability and high ownership
Planning for career progression of team member by creating growth plan and facilitate improvement areas
Platform built using kubernetes technology, leveraging Kafka, Azure cloud technologies, high scale event server handling billions of events in a day, big data processing and analytics.

Engineering Management

Senior Software Engineer III

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

Owned and built Risk Management module that acts as circuit breaker to protect margin loss in a high volume AdTech platform.
Enhanced and improved the accuracy of Risk Management module that acts as a circuit breaker when there are no events received due to many reasons like system outage, no events received and many other reasons.
Improving the efficiency of the algorithm for Risk Management Service for the overspend calculation while smartly designing on the budget allocation. System overspend was reduced from 2-5% to less than 0.2%. Even with increased scale by 10X of daily revenue, this algorithm is performing well.
Revamped the design using distributed cache for improving the efficiency which gave faster feedback for the system to take quicker action in case of catastrophic and budget management.
Led the integration of all the systems in the team for Prometheus onboarding while working towards making changes on the Prometheus hassle-free where new alerts onboarding and automatic discovery of new service requires no deployment of Prometheus service.

Software DevelopmentRisk ManagementAd Tech

Senior Software Engineer II

Promoted

Oct 2016 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Worked with SDE IV on Risk Management system and many other modules.
Risk Management system controls the budget spent by the campaigns along with any anomaly detection in the system to prevent overall loss for the business.
Integration of Prometheus and monitoring system
Owning the complete automation framework for Brand ad-serving team while making it robust.
Converted the automation framework from serialized to that of parallel execution which reduced the time for execution by 10 times.
Developed the framework for the various services used by adpool.
Co-owned the integration of the viewability partners like IAS and MOAT with the ad serving team. Also solely completed the integration of the "Adbug" as a viewability partner from China.
Apart from the contribution to the automation, I have been doing a couple of development work in the Ad-serving.
Dockerized a service for iDSP project.

Software Engineer

Jun 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

Stripe integration for commerce team
Integrated the automation with the Jenkins making it complete one-click deployment and result generation.
Maintaining the automation framework and increasing the code coverage.
Integration of the Jenkins and Jacoco with the automation framework for code coverage measurement.

Novell

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

Automation
Automated web based framework (iManager framework) using JUnit and Selenium tools for File Systems (Novell Storage Services).
Enhanced automation framework by adding several storage related libraries. These include Novell Storage Services (NSS) rights utility and NSS quota utility for user, directory and volume.
Major changes were done in the automation framework to support backward compatibility of the automation code to run with earlier releases of OES.
Owned the Novell Linux Volume Manager (NLVM) component and automated all the test cases ensuring backward compatibility.
Automated CLI test cases for Novell Storage Services.
Manual Testing
Performed manual testing for following components for OES 11 SP2 and OES 2015:
Novell Linux Volume Manager
Novell Storage Service.
Innovation:
Novell Buddy: Created an Android application to help newly joined employees of Novell by giving various information about the organization within the app.