Navin Manwatkar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led initiatives transforming monolithic applications to Cloud.
Achieved $150 Million savings through optimization frameworks.
Designed scalable A/B testing frameworks for data-driven decisions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in eCommerce technology with expertise in cloud migration and scalable application development.

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SpringSpring BootJ2EE Application DevelopmentGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)SolrEnterprise SearchRepresentational State Transfer (REST)JavaJava Enterprise EditionRESTful WebServicesSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)SQLApache KafkaKubernetes

About

Hands-on engineering leader with experience in building and managing highly scalable and available applications. Have led initiatives on transformation of on-premise monolithic applications to Cloud using technologies like Spring boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, spinnaker & terraform. Well versed with mentoring, grooming and managing a team. I'm an active participant in product or technology evaluation. Have good amount of experience with A/B Testing applications using istio and Akamai. Designed and developed e-commerce search using Fusion/Solr, microservice. Good amount of experience in building and optimizing supply chain systems within eCommerce domain. Proven track record of building highly competent engineering teams with developers, leads & architects from the ground-up. Experienced in working with and managing geographically distributed teams.

Experience

17 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Walmart global tech india

3 roles

Director, Software Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Managing middle mile applications along with customer facing high scale applications.
Handling the promise & sourcing applications
Managing a simulation platform that is used for what-if analysis by business and enables them to take the right decisions.

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Nov 2023 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

As a Senior Engineering Manager, I am accountable for overseeing both pre-purchase promise services and post-purchase sourcing services. My primary focus is on empowering my team to develop and deliver top-notch eCommerce Fulfillment products that leverage cutting-edge technologies. Together, we tackle intriguing and challenging problems, enabling the organization to provide seamless and cost-effective order delivery to valued customers in a timely manner.
My team and I are actively engaged in various optimization initiatives aimed at enhancing the cost-effectiveness and convenience of our delivery services. These efforts not only benefit the organization but also provide value to our esteemed customers.
Led Multi Objective Function framework which efficiently selects the most cost-effective network path for fulfilling customer orders that resulted in an impressive savings of $150 Million.

Senior Manager I, Software Engineering

Mar 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

Managing the customer promise and sourcing engineering team (MCSE - Multi-Channel Sourcing Engine).

Lowe's india

3 roles

Sr Manager Software Engineering

Promoted

Jun 2021 – Feb 2022 · 8 mos

Managing deliveries for Digital Taxonomy product.
Delivery planning for Search & Recommendation for https://www.lowes.ca
Managing a team of enthusiast, smart and dedicated engineers.

Technical Architect

Feb 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

As an Architect, I've accomplished following
Played a key role in Lowe's journey of migrating Digital applications to the cloud platform, leveraging microservices architecture.
Design, develop & manage various microservices in the search domain.
Worked closely with product managers to define product path & prioritise the stories.
Manage the team work/resolve technical blockers for teams
Designed & developed A/B testing framework for backend services.
Engineered a scalable Near Real-Time (NRT) pipeline to process in-stock/out-of-stock inventory events, with extensibility to handle inputs from pricing, promotions, and catalog systems.
Designed and developed a unified A/B testing framework for search applications, supporting impact analysis across services and enabling data-driven decisions during major relevancy upgrades.
POCs & evaluation of products/technologies.
Hiring and mentoring

Lead - Software Engineering

Jul 2015 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Designed and developed the ingestion pipeline for Solr from scratch, implementing data transformation workflows using Fusion's scripting language.
Transitioned to collaborative service development, deepening my expertise in search technologies and associated ecosystems.
Identified and resolved critical application performance bottlenecks, optimizing the system's efficiency and reliability.
Engineered a Near Real-Time (NRT) pipeline utilizing file transfer mechanisms and optimized Solr's soft/hard commit configurations for seamless data processing.
Migrated the autocomplete and thesaurus index to Solr, bolstering search functionality.
Gained strong technical expertise in search technologies and honed problem-solving skills through hands-on development and collaboration.

Ibm software group

Consultant

Jun 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

As a product consultant I used to help clients with product customization as per their need. Conducted couple of trainings on IBM Connections and WebSphere Portal.