Shamitha Lokande
Newark
Summary
Dynamic Principal Software Engineer at Walmart specializing in the development of scalable and sustainable large-scale data solutions. Recognized for exceptional problem-solving abilities and effective collaboration across teams, leading to the successful implementation of innovative marketing strategies and cloud solutions. Dedicated to achieving high-quality results in fast-paced environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Software Engineer
Walmart
Sunnyvale
05.2024 - Current
- Contributed to measurable improvements in search engine visibility and organic traffic to Walmart Business.
- Leveraged GenAI models to automate and scale content creation, including copy blocks for category pages, resulting in improved SEO effectiveness and user engagement.
- Architected and deployed scalable WNCP services and data pipelines to automate SEO metadata (titles, descriptions, keywords) generation for millions of SKUs using a proprietary GenAI model.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams, such as product managers, business stakeholders, data scientists, and engineering team members, to deliver high-quality products on time.
- Conducted research into emerging technologies and trends in marketing channels such as SEO, SEM, and CRM to develop innovative solutions for business user needs.
- Designed and implemented a multi-tenant email marketing platform, leveraging Adobe Marketo, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Experience Manager, to support scalable B2B marketing operations.
- Created detailed system design documents that outlined the architecture of new, lambda data systems.
- Provided technical mentorship to junior data engineers, guiding them on best practices and project execution.
- Completed continuous project and team reviews to maintain optimal productivity and quality of work.
- Defined processes that ensured successful integration between third party services within our platform.
Staff Software Engineer
Walmart
Sunnyvale
11.2021 - 05.2024
- Conducted a comprehensive technical analysis and vendor evaluation of third-party email marketing platforms to identify the most suitable solution based on scalability, integration, and feature support.
- Designed and implemented data pipelines and third-party API integrations to enable targeted and scalable email, push, and in-app marketing for Walmart Business.
- Conducted research on customer needs, preferences, trends in the industry, and the competitive landscape to enable omni-channel marketing for Walmart's business.
- Enabled DS models of 'Similar items' and 'Frequently bought items' for user behavior email campaigns.
- Architected and enabled Prospect Datalake, which consists of leads for sales and marketing use cases, using various third-party data sources and GCP Hive, Apache NiFi.
- Enabled a centralized “Content Hub” for Walmart Business using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to manage marketing and informational assets including text, video, and long-form content, seamlessly integrated with the Walmart Business site built on the Glass platform.
- Developed Python, Java, and Scala applications for extracting data from web services APIs and loading it into databases.
- Created analytic reports summarizing key metrics, such as marketing KPIs, lower, and upper funnel metrics.
- Developed and implemented technical marketing strategies to increase sales of products.
Senior Software Engineer
Walmart
Sunnyvale
06.2019 - 10.2021
- Implemented marketing push notifications such as Easy Reorder, shopping cart abandonment, along with other personalized campaigns like Baby Registry to around 40 million mobile devices on an everyday basis. Implementation tools – Hive, Cassandra, Python, Shell, Spark, and Elastic Search.
- Integrated third-party APIs into existing applications to extend their functionality using Java Spring Boot applications for Walmart Connected APIs.
- Designed and implemented a real-time data pipeline to enable customer preferences to opt in/opt out from guest checkout. On an average day, 1,000 customers used the guest checkout option without creating an account and via the footer of the Walmart site. The technology used – Scala, Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra.
- Designed and build service that can send real time data for W+ marketing needs to 3rd party for email marketing using Apache Nifi, Kafka, Springboot applications, oneops.
- Optimized the existing codebase by refactoring legacy components to improve the maintainability of the system from Teradata to Hive.
- Performed code reviews and enforced software development best practices.
- Designed database schemas that represent and support business processes in Google Cloud Storage.
- Created dashboards and visualizations with Tableau, Power BI, or other tools to present insights.
- Monitored production jobs for accuracy and performance optimization using monitoring tools like Nagios or Splunk.
Software Engineer
Walmart
Sunnyvale
09.2016 - 05.2019
- Successfully designed and built a Walmart marketing push and email campaign analytics data pipeline using Hive, Shell, Python, and Tableau.
- Facilitated the design and development of a web service that can be used to send custom data per day to a third-party vendor company. Implementation was done using Java, Jersey Rest Services, Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, and Scala.
- Built data pipelines for various teams to consume data from Walmart Customer Preferences, such as email preferences, address preferences, phone preferences, and personalization preferences, both real-time data and batched ETL jobs using Scala, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Go, Cassandra, Splunk, and Airflow.
Technical Associate
Acquity Group
San Francisco
03.2012 - 09.2016
- Worked as a full stack developer on various tasks, such as back-end core logic implementation using Spring MVC, a J2EE framework called Hybris, Solr search engines, along with front-end development work using HTML, CSS, and jQuery.
- Implemented core backend logic for the eCommerce website's product management. Tools used: EJB, Spring MVC, J2EE, Solr.
- Data mapping for creating data models and content management using RDBMS.
- Utilized version control systems like Git or Subversion to manage source codes effectively.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA02-2012
Bachelor of Science - Computer Sciencfe
Visvesvaraya Technological University
India06-2010
Skills
- GenAI implementation
- Data pipeline architecture
- API integration
- SEO optimization
- Email marketing
- Cloud computing
- System design
- Problem solving
- Requirements gathering
- Cross-functional collaboration
Technical Skills
- Programming Languages: Java, Scala, Python
- Ops: CI/CD, Docker
- Other Technologies: Apache Spark, Kafka, Apache Nifi, BigQuery, Cassandra, MangoDB, Spring MVC, Azure Storage.
Timeline
Principal Software Engineer
Walmart
05.2024 - Current
Staff Software Engineer
Walmart
11.2021 - 05.2024
Senior Software Engineer
Walmart
06.2019 - 10.2021
Software Engineer
Walmart
09.2016 - 05.2019
Technical Associate
Acquity Group
03.2012 - 09.2016
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Bachelor of Science - Computer Sciencfe
Visvesvaraya Technological University