PCS Anil Kumar Chukkala
Bengaluru
Summary
Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, backend engineering, and AI/LLM integration. Proven success in building large-scale, cloud-native platforms that enhance developer productivity, compliance, and user experience. Adept at leading end-to-end delivery of high-impact systems, with measurable business outcomes.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
Visa
Bengaluru
09.2024 - Current
- Architected and delivered enterprise hackathon platform serving 6,500+ participants across 17 global locations. Designed distributed microservices architecture featuring RAG-powered chatbot with hybrid semantic/lexical search, multi-round judging system with automated panel assignment, and multi-channel notification engine supporting email and Teams webhooks. Led technical delivery from system design through production optimization.
- Led the development of the Unified Checkout Designer, adopted by 5% of merchants (projected to reach 50%), reducing onboarding time from days to hours via LLM-powered, multi-language code generation.
- Created Unified Checkout Integrator (VS Code extension), automating migrations from legacy systems, and reducing manual code refactoring with the help of LLMs.
- Delivered Technical Writing CoPilot, enabling Visa’s technical writers to shorten documentation update cycles from months to weeks, using LLM-based suggestions.
- Designed Shopping Catalog Creator (Visa Hackathon award winner), projected to decrease merchant product listing time-to-market by 30%.
Senior Software Engineer
PayPal
Bengaluru
12.2018 - 08.2024
- Spearheaded development of HawkEye tool, enhancing administrative operations and boosting team productivity. Engineered distributed backend systems via GCP Pub/Sub, with Java and ReactJS frontends.
- Led creation of Notification Management System, integrating Email, Slack, Teams for multi-channel alerts.
- Customized Jenkins plugins for optimal build infrastructure, including dynamic workspace switching and RBAC security.
- Implemented automated cleanup to enhance CPU/memory utilization on build servers.
- Designed Build Stats plugin for metrics capture and Splunk monitoring.
- Contributed to Argo Workflows, a Kubernetes-native workflow engine, as an open-source project.
- Developed a secure Maven plugin facilitating authenticated artifact deployment from developer laptops.
Software Developer
BankerBay
Bengaluru
05.2017 - 11.2018
- Trained Stanford NLP models to extract entities (companies, locations, currencies) from financial news, improving accuracy of deal-matching workflows.
- Built secure PDF parser integrating Google Vision APIs to extract, tag, and store image/text data for financial documents.
Software Developer
Finomena
Bangalore
10.2016 - 04.2017
- Modified and restructured the storing for comments associated for better data analysis.
- Developed several backend REST APIs used by the Android app.
Software Engineer
Samsung India
Delhi
07.2015 - 09.2016
- Developed various applications in Tizen using AngularJS, and APIs from Facebook and Twitter.
- Developed an Android Application that communicates with the Smart TV for better navigation.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
IIT Kharagpur
01-2015
Skills
- Languages: Java, Python, and JavaScript
- Frameworks: Spring Boot, ReactJS
- Cloud and DevOps: GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins
- Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB
Timeline
Staff Software Engineer
Visa
09.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
PayPal
12.2018 - 08.2024
Software Developer
BankerBay
05.2017 - 11.2018
Software Developer
Finomena
10.2016 - 04.2017
Software Engineer
Samsung India
07.2015 - 09.2016
B.Tech - Computer Science
IIT Kharagpur