Vinay Chilaka

AI Researcher

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States4 yrs 7 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Increased data ingestion rates from 20 to 600 msgs/sec.
  • Migrated workflows to GCP achieving 7.1k msgs/sec.
  • Pursuing MBA to blend tech and business insights.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringCloud ComputingBusiness IntelligenceSoftware EngineeringData Analysis

Other Skills

AccountingApache KafkaApache SparkArtificial Neural NetworksBig DataBigTableBusiness AnalyticsBusiness InsightsBusiness Intelligence (BI)Code DesignComputer ScienceCorporate FinanceData ModelingData ModelsData Science

About

Walmart Global Tech empowers organizational efficiency through scalable data solutions. Recent contributions include enhancing data ingestion rates from 20 to 600 msgs/sec and migrating workflows to GCP with streamlined standards achieving 7.1k msgs/sec. Critical efforts on Firefly and Quantum projects optimized data quality and visualization, enabling staff to track operations effectively at the store and distribution center level. Currently pursuing an MBA at the University of Arkansas with an emphasis on finance and entrepreneurship to blend technical acumen with strategic leadership. Passionate about utilizing latest tech trends to drive business value and innovation, aiming to bridge technical expertise with business insight to foster impactful solutions.

Experience

4 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Simmons foods

Data Science Engineer

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos · Rogers, Arkansas, United States

Walmart global tech

2 roles

Data Engineer III

Promoted

Feb 2022Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

  • SideKick Project:
  • Closely working with Data Science and Delivering Location based priorities.
  • Pyspark and Dataproc Serverless based deployments to effectively deliver with scale.
  • Firefly project:
  • Built and delivered Events data ingestion on time to the business and reduced the processing rate from
  • 20 msgs/sec to 600 msgs/sec and at a refresh rate between 5-20 sec.
  • Migrated the flow to GCP with standardization achieving 7.1k msgs/sec and scalable based on the load.
  • Created visualizations to display the freshness of data and implemented data quality standards.
  • Implemented dashboard with hourly refresh and keeping it available to the DC level staff to track POs.
  • Quantum project: Migrated pipelines from Cloudbreak Cloudera platform to DPaaS, moving from persistent to ephemeral cluster with a huge cloud cost advantage.
  • Migrated to new Kafka cluster and monitored using lenses
PresentationsMultivariate TestingCode DesignDebuggingJiraGen AI+16

Data Engineer

Jun 2021Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Dallas, Texas, United States

  • Built end-to-end streaming pipelines for 2 tables with Kafka, bigquery, and monitored topics using lenses.
  • Migrated existing pipelines of 11 tables from unmanaged Azure to managed WCNP and brought them to production with git, concord and looper .
  • Loaded historical data for 2 tables onto bigquery using sqoop.
  • Created visualizations for data completeness monitoring using looker.
PresentationsCode DesignDebuggingScriptingQuery WritingData Models+4

Cisco

Software Engineer II

Aug 2020Jan 2021 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Extracted and pruned real-world data of microservices health using REST API calls.
  • Used weighted average, ARIMA, and exponentially weighted average to predict the failure of microservices on real-world data center setup using Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Utilized FBprophet to establish seasonality by day, week, and year in the data and improve predictions.
  • Established correlation between various metrics which can reduce the number of metrics to be monitored.
PresentationsCode DesignDebuggingScriptingTest CasesBusiness Intelligence (BI)+2

Healthcare technology innovation centre

Machine Learning Engineer

Nov 2018Mar 2019 · 4 mos · Tamil Nadu, India

  • Extracted features from two ppg waveforms extracted from two proximal sites on the carotid artery.
  • Modeled a feed-forward neural network using PyTorch to predict the SBP and DBP using extracted features.
  • Experimented with various loss functions and regression techniques and optimized the model.
  • Established the accuracy with an RMSE of 4mmHg and 6mmHg for DBP and SBP respectively.
Scripting

Johnson controls

Data Analyst

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Analyzed device log data using SVM with RBF kernel and Hidden Markov Models for false alarm prediction
  • Developed an RNN-LSTM model to handle the sequential nature of data and achieved 78% accuracy.
  • Analyzed RCNN, Fast-RCNN, Faster-RCNN, and Yolo to understand the existing bounding box algorithms.
  • Designed head detection models using modified YOLO v3 and got 0.70 and 0.74 AP on popular datasets.
PresentationsScripting

Education

University of Arkansas ­- Sam M. Walton College of Business

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jul 2023Aug 2025

University at Buffalo

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2020Jun 2022

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2015Jan 2020

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