Srihari Mekala

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

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 2024Present · 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 2021Oct 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 2021Aug 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 2019Jul 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

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Science

Aug 2017Aug 2021

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