Hardik Sharma

VP of Engineering

San Diego, California, United States15 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16 years of experience in AI-driven engineering leadership.
Expert in building scalable, customer-focused platforms.
Strong focus on engineering excellence and team empowerment.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in E-commerce and Mobile Development with a strong focus on scalable architectures.

Contact

hsharma@walmart.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentBug fixingBuild IntegrationCC++DebuggingGitH.264JavaLinuxMatlabMobile DevicesMultimediaPerl

About

I am an AI-driven Engineering Leader with over 16 years of industry experience, known for building scalable, customer-focused platforms that power growth and reliability at scale. Starting my career as a software engineer, I spent 9 years in the e-commerce domain, leading development across top-of-funnel experiences — optimizing performance, personalization, and user engagement. Over time, I’ve evolved into a hands-on technical leader who blends architecture depth with data-driven decision-making and an obsession for quality and impact. My expertise spans frontend platforms including rWeb/iOS/Android/backend systems, performance engineering, and AI-assisted development. I enjoy leading cross-functional teams through complex transformations — from monolith modernization to cloud-native microservices and intelligent automation — always with a strong focus on engineering excellence, scalability, and customer outcomes. I believe in empowering teams through mentorship, clear technical direction, and innovation culture, ensuring every engineer grows while delivering measurable business value.

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Walmart global tech

4 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager II

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – May 2022 · 10 mos

Leading homepage, content pages and services entry pages to make better landing experience for customers.

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Lead search experience, architecture improvements for scalable, configurable and robust system for native sxperience

Senior Software Developer

Oct 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

Work to make search experience better on native applications

Verizon - product and development

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Developed 4 Android applications end to end at very fast pace of 2-3 months per application and successfully launched 3 applications to solve gaming network customer problems reaching 100k+ downloads while being part of seed funded incubation idea Catalyst Foundary
Integrated various analytic tools for example Answers, Fabric, Firebase etc. as well as integrated other tools like branch etc.
Developed many personal ideas from white board to working prototypes in very short time.
Worked on backend identity services to develop POC's for single sign-on solutions.

Room 5

Software Engineer

Jun 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs · Redwood city, CA

Client - Amazon Labs
Worked on amazon fire phone on listView item creation as developer on Android platform.
Client - Intel
Automation framework development and algorithms for video and image comparison using FFMPEG, screen-record and screen-cap tools using python.
Client - Smart Locks
Application development for android platform including extending core SDK, network messaging and validation of image match.
Client - Room 5
Worked with Internet of things (IoT) project demos development.

Qualcomm

Software Engineer

Dec 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

● Development and testing of video drivers for mobile phones and tablets where worked with Multimedia middleware, codecs, DXVA, driver interfaces, mobile multimedia applications in C and C++.
● Worked on Wi-fi display (WFD) application in the development multimedia framework integrating audio-video drivers for source and sink using C and C++.
● Developed automated framework for driver verification where implemented various features in decoders and encoders for various codecs i.e. H.264, H.263, MPEG2, MPEG4 and VC1 using C and C++.

San diego state university

2 roles

Research Assistant

Jun 2011 – Dec 2011 · 6 mos · Greater San Diego Area

Worked on priority scheme implementation on slice groups as per the importance for h.264 with JM, x264 and FFMPEG.
skills- C, Perl, wireshark

Research Assistant

Mar 2010 – Jun 2010 · 3 mos · Greater San Diego Area

Worked on Error Resiliency and smart slicing schemes for H.264 Video Packets

Sony electronics

Software test engineer

Jun 2010 – Apr 2011 · 10 mos

Software Test Engineer - Sony Electronics, San Diego CA June2010- April2011
Exploratory Testing, System level testing, Smoke/ Sanity/ Build acceptance testing.
Used Perforce and Mantis while working on Google TV (android platform) and with other couple of Sony TV projects.
Used SharePoint and KnightOwl (internal tool) to automate Widget certification and memory stress testing.
GUI testing- Tested all applications launched on couple of Sony IPTV projects including Google TV and also did IOP testing including many set-top boxes and other devices (PS3, Blue-ray players etc).