Harish Menda

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

12+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expert in building scalable and secure tech solutions.
Proven track record in driving business transformation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in scalable API and web application development.

Contact

harish.menda@outlook.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementLeadershipSoftware DevelopmentDistributed SystemsWeb Services

Other Skills

API platformAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAngularJSApache KafkaArchitectural DesignAzure DevOpsCCI-CDCMSCQ5Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Core JavaDigital Engagement PlatformDistributed Caching

About

Strategic Engineering Leader with 12+ years of experience translating complex business challenges into scalable, secure, and high-impact tech solutions across retail, travel, and people experience domains. Known for fostering strong relationships and driving impactful innovations that enhance operational efficiency and deliver measurable business value. Proven track record in leading complex projects and optimizing processes for sustained success. Leading and mentoring high-performing teams that thrive in an environment of collaboration and innovation to drive Walmart's business transformation. Currently pursuing Executive General Management at IIM Visakhapatnam to further deepen my strategic and cross-industry leadership lens.

Experience

13 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

9 mos

Current Experience

Slack

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Walmart global tech

4 roles

Senior Manager Software Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Platform products to empower engineering teams with reliable, fast, robust and secure APIs and integrations.
. Engineering Excellence
. Operational Excellence
. Project & Stakeholder Management
. Team Building: Mentorship-Coaching

Engineering ExcellenceOperational ExcellenceProject & Stakeholder ManagementTeam Building: Mentorship-CoachingProject ManagementLeadership

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr

Building a highly available, scalable and secured API platform using standard REST/GraphQL and real-time streaming APIs for use by internal and external clients to facilitate data exchange. Which enables consumer-grade digital interaction layer for the store, in-house and other associates at a scale of ~2M.

API platformRESTGraphQLreal-time streaming APIsSoftware DevelopmentDistributed Systems

Software Engineer IV / Tech Lead

Jun 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Enabled a seamless experience to Walmart associates for the business functions or processes such as onboarding, off-boarding, ordering of IT devices and support requests by rolling out a web based application as platform.
. End to end responsibility of designing, developing MVP, CI-CD of the application.
. Setup of monitoring, logging and alerting of the application.
. Guidance/Mentorship to the team members along with onboarding to the product development.

web based applicationdesigningdeveloping MVPCI-CDmonitoringlogging+3

Software Engineer III

Nov 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Development of highly available and scalable content management system (CMS) as a platform called WEM and rollout 200+ unified micro-sites and largest associate facing web sites using the reusable component/templates and services.
Created an Enterprise Search solution where users have one place for search which bridges all the different source systems and enables them to search using elasticsearch as the engine. Provide web interface for the same using ReactJS - Node.js for the application.

content management systemmicro-siteselasticsearchReactJSNode.jsSoftware Development+1

Sapient

Senior Associate

Dec 2017 – Nov 2018 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked for implementation of Digital Engagement Platform, which is to provide digital solutions to all vendors across the globe for world's leading food chain, using Spring Integration module and CMS as AdobeEM.
. Lead team for application modules & POC for release cycles.
. Handled requirement gathering, brainstorming the solutions and design.
. Developed solution for large scale for coupon redemption in a very short period using RabbitMQ and Java steams.

Digital Engagement PlatformSpring IntegrationCMSJavaRabbitMQSoftware Development+1

Mindtree

2 roles

Module Lead

Apr 2017 – Nov 2017 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Re-engineering of multi-brand, multi-lingual and multi-domain online car rental application from old java technology struts and servlets to Spring frameworks also with simplified user interface.
. Developed components, templates, servlets and services required for the custom features/implementations using AEM-Java and AngularJS.
. Developed workflows, schedulers/CRON jobs, dynamic components which consume REST API’s.
. Implemented customized personalization solution.
. Implemented multi-site hierarchy for the complete application.
. Developed key APIs for handling car rental bookings.

JavaSpring frameworksAngularJSSoftware DevelopmentWeb Services

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Igate

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on modernisation of legacy US based Fleet applications using latest J2EE technologies. Automation of reporting, code quality improvements using SonarQube, jUnit are some of key contributions apart from business deliverables.

J2EE technologiesSonarQubejUnitSoftware DevelopmentProject Management