Akansha Likhdhari

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of a data observability platform.
Designed features for 100+ data pipelines.
Reduced root-cause analysis time by 40%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer in the SaaS industry.

Contact

akansha.likhdhari@walmart.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

JavaMicroservicesData ObservabilityGcpSpring BootReactEdiAgile

Other Skills

Agile Project ManagementAirflowAlgorithmsApache CamelApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAzureBigQueryCI/CDContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Core JavaData QualityData StructuresDocker

About

Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building large-scale, data-intensive and distributed platforms at Walmart Global Tech, Target, and IBM. I specialize in event-driven architectures, data observability, and data quality, designing highly available microservices and streaming platforms using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Apache Spark, and Apache Flink.I’ve led delivery of enterprise platforms supporting 100+ data pipelines and finance/AP systems processing $100M+ daily, driving higher reliability, faster incident resolution, and reduced operational overhead.

Experience

9 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Walmart global tech india

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer IV

Promoted

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Leading development of an enterprise Data Observability platform providing end-to-end visibility across pipelines, infrastructure, and applications serving 100+ data pipelines.
Designed pipeline-level observability features - lineage generation, dependency mapping, and SLA tracking - using Airflow, OpenLineage, Spline, Kubie,BQ and others technologies
Built an expectation engine to evaluate pipeline rules and trigger actionable alerts with ServiceNow and email integrations.
Integrated SIA debugging workflows to reduce root-cause analysis time by 40% for pipeline failures.
Drove platform readiness across compliance, scalability, and operations through cross-functional execution (runbooks, monitoring, onboarding).
SKILLS
Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Microservices, REST APIs, SOLID
Distributed/Streaming: Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Spark, Event-driven architecture
Cloud/Infra: GCP (BigQuery, Dataproc), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD
Data Platforms: Data Observability, Data Quality, Data Governance, Lineage, Reconciliation
Datastores: MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery,HugeGraph
Frontend (as-needed): React.js, Redux, JavaScript

JavaSpring BootMicroservicesREST APIsApache KafkaApache Flink+6

Software Engineer III

Oct 2021 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Backend Developer using Sprint Boot,Kafka,Azure
Front end Developer using React, Redux,JavaScript
Backend Testing: Mockito,Stubs and other inhouse tool
CI/CD: concord with K8 , Looper
FrontEnd Testing: UI-Shield

Spring BootKafkaAzureReactReduxJavaScript+2

Target

Engineer

Nov 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Facilitated EDI data interchange in Target system.
Knowledge on IBM MFT, and File-Express systems.
Developer for EDI data conversion and persisting it IN/OUT of Target.
Developed tool to track all EDI and Non-EDI files flowing between Target and Vendor Systems.
Tech Stack Worked on:
React JS, Redux for Front end.
Spring Boot Kafka integration for Back end.
Architecture: Microservices
Setting up new CI/CD pipeline for the entire project.
MFT Setup for files exchange between Target and Vendors.

EDIIBM MFTFile-ExpressReact JSSpring BootKafka+1

Ibm

Associate System Engineer

Jan 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked on Oracle CRM (Customer Relation Ship Management).
Technology used -Manual Testing ,Java Core,Servlets, Spring boot, Apache Kafka ,MySQL, Apache Server, Mockito.
Used Automation tool-selenium in creating automation scripts.
Used HP ALM-Quality Centre usage for defects logging, test preparation and execution
Java POI scripts creation for interaction with excel.
Followed Agile methodology for project development and CI/CD pipeline for project releases.

Oracle CRMJavaSpring BootApache KafkaMySQLSelenium+1