Raghavan Kumar

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 17 years of engineering and leadership experience.
  • Expert in AI and ML-driven inventory management solutions.
  • Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)LeadershipSalesforce.com DevelopmentIbm Mainframe

Other Skills

AI EthicsAI RiskAI SecurityAgile MethodologiesAnalyticsApache KafkaApache SparkApex ProgrammingArtificial intelligenceAzure Cosmos DBBOLTBlockchainBlockchain & NFTBusiness AnalysisCOBOL

About

With over 17 years of dedicated experience in engineering and leadership, I drive transformative solutions at scale with an innovation mindset . I specialize in crafting high-performing teams from inception to excellence, with a focus on delivering unparalleled engineering solutions. Currently, I am spearheading various initiatives at Walmart, handling end-to-end inventory management systems. My role encompasses orchestrating multifaceted engineering solutions at scale, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to predict and optimize E2E Inventory management. I had lead the development of essential tools for seamless partner onboarding, support, and dynamic marketing solutions. My expertise lies in architecting ground-up engineering products tailored to tackle the complexities of E2E inventory management. I am adept at implementing bespoke SaaS solutions to meet the diverse needs of global sellers and suppliers on the Walmart marketplace. Furthermore, I excel in building ML/AI models that drive efficiency and precision in inventory optimization. As a seasoned leader, I have a proven track record of managing globally distributed teams in high-pressure environments. I thrive on steering high-performance teams to success, navigating through complex engineering systems that handle billions of records daily. As the global technology owner for E2E partner experience, I drove strategic roadmaps and foster cross-functional collaborations to deliver impactful solutions. I lead and mentored new managers with a team size of more than 60, I am deeply committed to hiring and cultivating top talent, ensuring technical excellence in all deliverables. My leadership philosophy is rooted in continuous learning and growth, epitomized by my unwavering "Learning Attitude - Always." Specializing in a wide spectrum of technologies, from cutting-edge AI and ML to legacy systems such as Mainframes and Cobol, I bring a holistic understanding to every project I undertake. My proficiency spans across platforms including Java, Salesforce, GCP, Kafka, Cassandra, CosmosDB, Elastic Search, Azure, AWS, Mainframes and beyond. Let's connect and explore opportunities to drive innovation and impact together.

Experience

19 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
4 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Walmart global tech india

Senior Engineering Manager II

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

HadoopLeadershipRelationship BuildingSDLCStrategyIT Strategy+51

Walmart labs

Engineering Manager

Jun 2018Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

HadoopLeadershipRelationship BuildingSDLCStrategyIT Strategy+49

Time inc. india

2 roles

Technical Manager/Solutions Architect

Promoted

Feb 2016Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Subscription Management System: The combination of Salesforce, Zuora, MuleSoft and Salesforce Marketing Cloud together, built to handle subscriptions for the magazine business. It’s a subscription management system that would handle the whole subscription lifecycle from initiating the subscription, payment capturing, maintaining the subscription, billing and renewal reminders etc.,
  • PosRes: PosRes alias Position Reservation is a custom application built on Force.com that handles the reservations of the ad positions. These positions are linked to the opportunity that is created for selling the ads.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Own and drive the entire technical life cycle of each project
  • Architecting the whole solution.
  • Leading and coordinating every aspect of the project from project planning, development till deployment to production.
  • Partake in business discovery, analyze user requirements with business analysts, uncover unstated requirements, suggest steps & measures for improvements
  • Design and develop scalable technical solutions using platform best practices
HadoopLeadershipRelationship BuildingSDLCStrategyIT Strategy+34

Senior Technical Team Lead

Mar 2015Jan 2016 · 10 mos

  • Two Sales Cloud Implementaions: These applications are used in Time Inc. to handle the sales business of Ads for Print, Digital and other types of media. The application is built in SFDC which majorly concentrates on handling opportunities and the sales process. Salesforce sales cloud has been configured and customized to handle the business opportunities.
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud: The exact target tool has been implemented for the consumer marketing business that handles newsletters, email marketing, billing and renewals processes.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Interacted with Business users to gather the requirements and documenting them
  • Maintaining the existing system, fixing bugs, working on enhancements
  • Automated lots of existing manual process using batches
  • Worked on configurations like sharing rules, record types, workflow rules, approval process, process builder etc
  • Built customizations including triggers, VF pages, controllers, batch jobs, REST, SOAP etc
  • Worked on Email creations, newsletter creations, automation studio, data extensions and most other parts of the tool
LeadershipRelationship BuildingSDLCimpactComputer ScienceRequirements Analysis+22

Tata consultancy services

4 roles

Assistant Consultant

Oct 2012Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Project : - Client had two home grown CRM systems “TeamPoint” and “GoldMine”. TeamPoint is a CRM system for the variable products and GoldMine is for fixed products. Both the legacy systems were built in MF COBOL, SQL and VB. Those systems are planned to be migrated into Saesforce.com. A new CRM system is built on Salesforce.com and the old systems were retired.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Interacted with Business users to gather the requirements and documented the requirements and created detailed design documents.
  • Worked on building security model.
  • Worked on development, testing and deployment of the system.
  • Configurations like workflows, validation rules, approval process, process builder etc.
  • Customization's like Apex triggers, VF Pages, Controllers, Batch Jobs etc.
Relationship BuildingSDLCComputer ScienceRequirements AnalysisSalesforce.com DevelopmentCommunication+8

IT Analyst

Promoted

Sep 2011Sep 2012 · 1 yr

  • Project : - It is a policy administration system built using MF COBOL, MS SQL and VB. The system handles the end to end process starting from creating a new policy to its surrender/death or annuitization. Here in Allianz the BASS system has been customized to handle only the claim requests. This is the payout system that handles Death Claims, Full/Partial Surrenders, Loans etc.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for requirements gathering from Business users and other stakeholders of Projects
  • To prepare functional and non-functional requirement/Design documents
  • To walkthrough the requirement/design documents with the Business and getting it base lined
  • Implementation and Post Implementation Support
  • Work Prioritization & Estimation
  • Project :- Product Metrics/Reporting Migration: To setup a 5 node distributed Hadoop Cluster. Used for Allianz Life Insurance Corporation has lots of Broker Dealers, Agents, FMO and AFMO’s who take care of selling the policies. Each Agent’s regional office sends the details of daily transaction (enrolment’s, updates to policy, cancellation) to Central System Mainframe system. The feed is form of raw txt file the data is in FIXED line format. Load this file into HDFS to get some real time facts based on the data. 1) Which type of insurance product type is more lucrative to customers as per their location geographies, 2) Which kind of products are selling more according to the seasons, 3) No of customers using the insurance national wide, 4) Pace with which the users are joining. PIG, HIVE is used. Migration of daily reporting into Hadoop was the next Phase.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Requirements gathering from Business users and other stakeholders of Project.
  • Hardware Planning for the Cluster.
  • Installing and configuring the Fully Distributed Hadoop Cluster.
  • Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Pig development.
  • Log analysis.
  • Data transfers between Hadoop and RDBMS systems using Sqoop.
Relationship BuildingSDLCComputer ScienceRequirements AnalysisIBM MainframeTechnical Design+2

Assistant System Engineer

Apr 2008Aug 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Project :- The Peripherals system built in mainframes is predominantly based on batch cycles but also effects on line’s too. It accepts data from various Data capture Applications (applications that input the data), processes them and updates many important databases. Major financial processes like Direct Debits, Sales Management and Reassurance are handled by exGA Peripherals. NUL Production support team is to provide end to end support for all the Production Issues ranging from Data Fixes, Job Monitoring/Fixing, On Call Support and Change Requests.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Played a crucial role in complete Utility Life Cycle as a developer, gathering and analyzing the requirements
  • Participated in design reviews of other modules and provide insightful comments to improve the design quality and design conformance to standards
  • Work Prioritization & Estimation
  • Batch jobs monitoring and fixing the issues that are raised. Escalating when needed.
  • Responsible for coordinating with business users to analyze customer expectations, functional and non-functional requirements and constraints for the applications.
SDLCComputer ScienceIBM Mainframe

Assistant System Engineer

Jan 2007Mar 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Project :- One of the key objectives is to facilitate the billing of a customer for usage of BT’s services. It has numerous components that span a number of hardware platforms from MVS mainframes to PCs. CFB has three-tier architecture with a Windows based front end, a UNIX operating system at the middle tier for security validations and MVS/DB2 at the database end. Copies of the bill, reruns and reprints are all allowed to provide maximum customer satisfaction. The reports can be presented various media like CDROM, Floppy-Disk, Magnetic Tape, EDI and on Web (EBPP).
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Coding and Unit testing
  • Application Support for Cash Management system Jobs.
  • Resolve the jobs which are abended.
SDLCComputer ScienceIBM Mainframe

Education

Indian School of Business

Chief Technology Officer Programme — Organizational Leadership

Jun 2023Mar 2024

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)

Cybersecurity Champion Program — Information Technology

Jun 2025Sep 2025

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2002Jan 2006

Railway High School

Bachelor's degree — Mathematics

Jan 1999Jan 2003

Railway High School

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