Vinayaka V Ladwa

Software Engineer

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States10 yrs experience
AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Reduced delivery timeline by 30% through collaboration.
  • Automated Kubernetes cluster setup, saving significant time.
  • Developed end-to-end deployment strategies for ML platforms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Cloud Computing expert in SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDevopsInfrastructure AutomationAutomation

Other Skills

AgenticAiAlgorithm DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApache KafkaApache ZooKeeperBashBig DataCore JavaDeploymentsDisaster RecoveryDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Google Gemini

About

Software Engineer with 9 years of experience in DevOps and cloud technologies. As a DevOps and cloud engineer have worked on Linux Platforms, Container Technology, Micro-services,Cloud Computing(AWS,GCP,Azure), Big-data, Machine Learning Platform, Migration, Infrastructure automation, CI/CD. Strong experience with the latest DevOps tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Splunk, Ansible, Terraform, and HAproxy. Worked Closely with Developers to reduce the delivery timeline by 30%. • Experience in developing python scripts using Kubernetes python SDK to automate the process of deployments in Kubernetes. • Experience in setting up multi-node Kubernetes clusters using Kubespray (AWS & On-premises) and deploying different kinds of Kubernetes workflows. • Experience in writing Docker files and building images from it. • Experience in Jenkins Master/Slave configuration with an end to end Jenkins Pipeline creation for CI/CD. • Experience in writing Ansible-playbooks for infrastructure automation. • Experience in working on Big Data (CDH). • Experience in setting up a High Availability cluster environment for Mysql, Postgres, JBoss application server using Red Hat Cluster Suite(RHCS). • Experience in setting up monitoring alerts using Site24/7 and Splunk. • Experience in Migration of Services/Cluster from On-premises to AWS. • Hands-on experience in working with Hadoop Ecosystems like Hive, MapReduce & Kafka • Experience in developing Automation scripts using Python, Perl, and Shell. • Strong Knowledge of Unix and Linux Commands.

Experience

Walmart

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer @ML & GenAI Platforms at Walmart

Promoted

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2024Jun 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

  • Walmart container native platform - kubernetes
  • Walmart Machine Learning platform
  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Milvus Vector Database
  • Walmart GenerativeAI platform
  • GPUs in private
  • Platform engineering
  • Azure,GCP

Walmart global tech india

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2020Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Developing, Designing, Deploying, Migrating, Integrating, and Implementing end to end Deployment & Infrastructure strategies for the Machine Learning Platform.
  • Actively participated in high-level team activities such as suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements, and conducting tool evaluations.
  • Developed concord pipelines to deploy Spark operators on Kubernetes clusters. • Design and Implemented GCS-SYNC solution in GKE for astronomer airflow (K8s
  • executor).
  • Installation of the GKE cluster via Terraform and configuring Workload Identity
  • Management to pods to interact with other Google services.
  • Databricks on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Migration of Micro-services from self-managed Kubernetes cluster to GKE and AKS
  • and exposing them via Istio.
  • AKS and GKE Cluster Upgrade strategy for tier-0 MLOPS deployments.
  • Design of Multi regional deployments for MLOPS.
  • Implementing the effective cost attribution strategy to reduce GCP & Azure cloud
  • cost for approximately 150 ML teams on the platform,
  • Design and Implementation of Google TPU offering As a service in the Machine
  • Learning Platform.
  • In collaboration with the Google PSO, Design and Lead the implementation of
  • Google Vertex-AI(Machine Learning service) offering As a service and integration
  • with Walmart's Machine Learning Platform.
  • Design and drive the implementation of multiple GPU flavors in Azure and GCP
  • cloud, some of them are Nvidia A100, K80, T4, V100
  • Developed Python Scripts to capture GPU utilization of different GPU flavors.
  • Kubernetes cluster monitoring via Prometheus and Telegraf plugin.
  • GPU enablement in self-managed Kubernetes.
  • Serverless spark/Dataproc Batches in GCP
  • Argocd
  • MLFlow
KubernetesTerraformGoogle Cloud PlatformMachine LearningPythonCloud Computing+1

Walmart labs

Senior Software Engineer | Software Engineer 4, Machine Learning Platform

Apr 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · India

  • Setup and Maintained 7+ of kubernetes cluster in GCP, Azure and On-premises.
  • Automated kubernetes cluster setup in GCP and Azure using Terraform and Kubespray, reducing cluster uptime by more than 70%.
  • Developed python script to prepull the docker images(size in GB) in the kubernetes clusters(300+ nodes), saving admin time by 80% and reducing pod start time by 95%.
KubernetesTerraformPythonCloud ComputingDevOps

Juniper networks

2 roles

Software Engineer 3 | DevOps Engineer | Bigdata Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2018Mar 2019 · 11 mos

  • 1. Experience in setting up a multi-node Kubernetes cluster using kubernetes-incubator/kubespray.
  • 2. Good understanding and experience in deploying different Kubernetes workflows.
  • 3. Developed automation framework for deploying different kubernetes workflows using Kubernetes-Python SDK (kubernetes-client)
  • 4. Developed Ansible-Playbooks for infrastructure automation.
  • 5.Experience in Jenkins Master/Slave configuration with an end to end Jenkins Pipeline creation for CI/CD.
  • 6. Build Automation using Jenkins, Scheduling Builds, Build Linking upstream and Down Stream and Parameterized Builds.
  • 7. Experience in writing Docker files and building images from it.
  • 8. Experience in Installation Cloudera Manager and CDH.
  • 9. Monitoring infrastructure with various monitoring tools such as Splunk and Site24*7.
KubernetesAnsibleJenkinsDockerDevOpsInfrastructure Automation

Software Engineer 2 | DevOps Engineer | Bigdata Engineer

Feb 2016Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  •  Involved in feature testing of the modules along with writing Test cases.
  •  Developed Python scripts for automating Rest API.
  •  Involved Manual testing of the web-based portal.
  •  Developed a new framework using Python to validate the data stored in HBase using Phoenix Query
  • Server (PQS).
  •  Designing automation scripts in Robot framework using RIDE for GUI Automation and API Automation.
  •  Preparation and execution of test scripts using JMeter for performance testing of REST API.
  •  Involved in testing of REST API using Postman client.
  •  Developed Python scripts for the testing end to end product flows, verifying the flow of the message
  • through different components like Kafka, HBase and Ignite cache.
  •  Developed a new framework using Python from scratch for executing REST API calls. This framework has a
  • capability to auto-update test result after running test scripts and generates reports accordingly.
  •  Developed Python scripts to monitor system resources usage and store the results to InfluxDB and
  • Grafana tool is used to plot graphs and monitor the system resources using the results stored in InfluxDB.
  •  Developed auto deployment scripts in a Shell for deploying micro-services successfully using Jenkins builds.
  •  Designed and Implemented efficient Splunk dashboards using Splunk.
  •  Developed and Managed CI/CD pipelines for applications.
  •  Managed Build and Release activities for development teams
PythonREST APIJenkinsDevOpsAutomation

Education

GM Institute of Technology

B.E — ISE

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