Akansha Raman

Senior Software Engineer

United States10 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Designed high-performance distributed systems at Walmart.
Increased average basket size by 60% through innovative solutions.
Successfully managed critical projects under tight deadlines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Healthcare and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaGraphqlApache SparkApache KafkaMicroservicesApi Development

Other Skills

Software DesignKubernetesScalaAzure Cosmos DBF#ReactJSAzureC#Data StructuresMicrosoft AzureProgrammingMicrosoft SQL ServerASP.NET Web APIdot net coreCosmosDb

About

A Senior software engineer with experience in building high performance scalable distributed system consisting of high throughput data pipelines. Current project in Walmart: Designed and developed a distributed system that can - • Handle tens of millions of events per day from thousands of Walmart Pharmacy locations • Serve real-time data to tens of millions of requests per day from over 35 internal clients via a Reactive Java GraphQL service running on Kubernetes. • Along with supporting multiple Walmart functionality, this system enabled Walmart customers to combine their prescriptions with their grocery orders in a mixed cart experience within three hours, resulting in an average basket size increment of 60%. Prior experience as a Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech: • Designed and developed a distributed data processing pipeline consisting of 50+ Spark Streaming Microservices with Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB to ingest billions of transactions from Walmart Pharmacy. • Designed and deployed an immunization inventory reservation system in a critical six-week timeline, resulting in 15 million patients scheduling and receiving high-demand COVID-19 and Flu vaccines at Walmart Pharmacies. • Worked on improving the digital self-service prescription pickup experience for Walmart customers. Key Strength: Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Azure Cosmos DB, Java, Kotlin, Scala, GraphQL, System Design

Experience

Walmart global tech

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Built a distributed scalable backend system handling 63M events per day from 5000 Walmart Pharmacy
and serving real-time data to 20M requests/day from over 35 unique internal client integration via a
Reactive Java GraphQL service running on Kubernetes.
The system enabled Walmart customers to have their Rxs delivered and/or combined with their grocery
order in a mixed cart experience within 3 hours resulting in an average basket size increment of 60%.

Software DesignKubernetesJavaGraphQL

Software Engineer

Apr 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Data Mart for Patient Information
Designed and developed a distributed data processing pipeline consisting of 50+ Spark Streaming
Microservices with Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB to ingest Billions of transactions from Walmart
Pharmacy in cloud which were generated on-premises with the eventual goal of moving away from running everything on bare metal servers resulting in around $2M cost savings.
Covid vaccine pipeline
Designed and deployed an immunization inventory reservation system in a critical 6 weeks’ timeline
resulting in 15M Patients scheduling and receiving high demand COVID-19 and Flu vaccines at Walmart
Pharmacies.
Self-Service Prescription Pickup
Worked in a team to improve the digital experience of customer by automating the prescription pickup
process through a self-service kiosk which enables them to retrieve prescription without the involvement of an associate.

Software DesignScalaApache SparkApache Kafka

Jet.com

Software Engineer

Oct 2018 – Jul 2019 · 9 mos · Hoboken New Jersey

Part of storm Ad-Tech marketing team at Jet. We drive the sales growth at Jet by advertising the products with various partners and platforms. We built the data platform and the software to feed the advertisement of the jet products while supporting the real time price. We built tools to support influencer marketing further driving the sales. The stack mainly comprised of micro-services written in F# , and deployed on Azure.
Realtime Updates to Advertising Partners
Designed and developed a system to provide real time price and availability update of products feed to
advertising partners such as Google and Facebook.
Affiliates System for Jet
Developed an API interface to provide the publisher partners of Jet with the product information along with real-time accurate price, a specialized link that can be tracked internally which they can embed on their content.

F#ReactJSMicroservicesAPI Development

Microsoft india

Software Engineer

Jun 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Distributed tracing of transactions for an existing financial transaction processing pipeline
Worked in a team to design and develop a distributed tracing mechanism for tracing Microsoft’s financial transactions flowing through multiple sub-systems.
A UI powered by a REST API provided stakeholders to view the progress of each individual transactions.
Automated a manual process to onboard clients of the tracking system to eliminate failure due to human error and saved overall onboarding time and effort.
Azure Integration Services to provide EAI and B2B transaction capabilities
Worked on implementing the existing transaction processing infrastructure on Azure with the eventual goal of moving away from running everything on bare metal servers.
This platform provided EAI(Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B transaction capabilities on cloud implemented using Azure.