Srihari Mekala

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Designed multi-region microservices for retail.
Led modernization from monolith to microservices.
Improved code generation reliability by 30%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer in the Fintech and Retail sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaSpring BootAi Dev Tools

Other Skills

MavenRESTful API developmentKafkaPostgreSQLCassandraKubernetesRedisAzure SQLGCPLLMsSplunkGrafanaOpenObserveREST APIsOracle DB

About

Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable solutions in payments and retail domains. Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Maven, and RESTful API development, with hands-on experience in React and Redux for full-stack delivery. Experienced in both hands-on individual contribution (system design, coding, deployment) and leadership roles (mentoring, driving quality) delivering high-impact features in fast-paced environments.

Experience

4 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Walmart

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bentonville, AR · Hybrid

Designed and delivered a multi-region Spring Boot microservices retail platform supporting 600+ clubs across North America, Asia, and Europe, processing 50K+ daily orders and streamlining item lifecycle and order fulfillment.
Built event-driven real-time systems with Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra, ensuring consistent sales, inventory, and operational analytics across distributed databases.
Modernized legacy COBOL/mainframe systems with RESTful microservices on Kubernetes, leveraging Kafka streaming, async processing, and Redis caching to cut response times by 50%.
Led cloud data migration from DB2 to Azure SQL/GCP with schema optimization, stored procedure conversion, and Spring Boot ETL pipelines, reducing costs and improving query performance.
Conducted early-stage research on AI dev tools and LLMs (Copilot, Qodo, Codeium, GPT, Claude, Gemini), producing a prompting framework that improved code generation reliability and developer productivity by 30%.
Enhanced production resilience via fault-tolerant design, observability (Splunk/Grafana/OpenObserve), and automated hotfix deployment, reducing MTTR by 25%.

JavaSpring BootMavenRESTful API developmentKafkaPostgreSQL+10

Visa

Software Engineer

Oct 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs · Foster City, CA · Hybrid

Built and delivered an enterprise payment processing platform for banks and merchants, developing scalable Java microservices (Spring Boot) and REST APIs integrated with Oracle DB and Hibernate handling 100K+ daily transactions with high availability and security compliance.
Contributed to UI development using React.js/Redux, integrating backend APIs to deliver responsive merchant and payment workflows.
Led modernization from monolith to microservices using Spring Boot, Vert.x, Kubernetes, Redis, and async processing, reducing API latency by 40% and enabling independent scaling.
Strengthened platform reliability by implementing an API Gateway with JWT-based security, rate limiting, automated testing (JUnit/Mockito), Swagger documentation, and code quality standards, reducing production defects by 20%.

JavaSpring BootREST APIsOracle DBHibernateReact.js+3

Glocol inc

Project Intern

Jan 2021 – Aug 2021 · 7 mos · Sacramento, California, United States

Sole contributor in building APIs integrated with frontend UI to deliver processed and filtered data.
Built a serverless backend using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, and DynamoDB, improving response times by 30%.
Implemented 10+ REST APIs, external integrations, and MQTT-based IoT communication.
Enabled real-time IoT monitoring and alerting using AWS CloudWatch, improving device reliability and user experience.

AWS LambdaAPI GatewayDynamoDBREST APIsIoT

Aditya birla group

Project Intern

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Gujarat, India

Designed and developed end-to-end web applications with secure authentication, user management, dashboards, and results workflows, partnering with frontend teams while owning the backend architecture and business logic in Java.
Designed, integrated, and optimized relational databases (MySQL), including schema design, indexing, and query tuning, reducing query execution time by 30%.
Integrated email and notification services using SMTP/third-party providers with retry and failure-handling mechanisms.

JavaMySQLSMTP