Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
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Ashwath Kumar

Bengaluru

Summary

Seasoned Backend Engineer & Technical Lead with 12+ years of experience designing and developing software solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Camunda, and cloud-native tools.

Experienced in leading cross-functional agile teams, mentoring engineers, and owning complex systems end-to-end. Adept at applying data structures, algorithms, and system design principles to solve high-impact problems. Currently leading workflow automation platform at scale for Walmart Global Tech.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart Global Tech
09.2021 - Current
  • Led architecture, implementation, and team adoption of Walmart's internal workflow orchestration platform built on Java/Spring Boot/Camunda/Docker containers and hosted on Azure - now supporting 50+ internal product teams.
  • Leading the development of RACE, Walmart's next-generation digitization and OCR platform that replaces the legacy Captiva application. Built with Azure Cognitive Services and designed for extensibility, RACE orchestrates intelligent document ingestion, classification, indexing, and validation workflows.
  • Contributed to software architectural design, coded, reviewed, and debugged applications, improving software performance significantly and significant improvement in code quality
  • Leading and mentoring developers in achieving project timelines and helping them to produce quality code-based standards and providing technical solutions to critical issues.
  • Leading the development of three product teams in the worklfow automation platform area. Involved in the ideation, product roadmaps, MVPs, user feedbacks, releases , adoption, fostering seamless cross-team collaboration and collaborating with numerous stakeholders.

Software Engineer 3

Walmart Global Tech
Bengaluru
12.2018 - 08.2021
  • Modernized legacy BPM architecture using Spring Boot monolith and adopted Azure cloud solutions and deployment strategies.
  • Successfully onboarding FLIPKART to GLM, a critical process that streamlined operations and fostered international market expansion
  • Contributed to the implementation of a robust payment system for international markets, improving transaction efficiency and user experience.
  • Worked on the development of multiple reusable libraries. By creating these versatile components, I not only expedited the app's development process but also promoted consistency and code efficiency across various projects.

Technical Lead

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
03.2018 - 12.2018
  • Technically leading the team of BPM developers
  • Design and development of Banking application for Treasury department using IBM BPM and java spring boot.

Senior Software Developer

Royal Cyber India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
08.2016 - 02.2018
  • Design BPDs, Business Objects, Database schema and tables, Mock Up screens
  • Built IBM BPM UI, toolkits, integration utilities and multi country roll out plan.

Software Engineer

TCS
Bengaluru
06.2015 - 07.2016
  • Worked on the workflow automation requirements using IBM BPM coach, UI toolkit, coach views, various integration.

IBM BPM Developer

HCL
Bengaluru
12.2011 - 05.2015
  • Implemented business critical workflow features in IBM BPM components including BPD, coach, coach views etc
  • Developed Custom coach views using JavaScript and dojo functionalities and worked on Exception handling.

Education

Bachelor's of Engineering - Information Science

Vivekananda college of engineering and technology
Mangalore
06.2011

Skills

  • Java
  • Spring/Spring Boot
  • System Architecture, System Design
  • API Development
  • Problem Solving
  • Distributed Systems
  • CICD
  • Docker
  • Node
  • SQL
  • Junit
  • Camunda
  • Agile methodologies
  • Technical leadership, mentorship, and coaching
  • Project Management
  • Great communicator and team player
  • Decision making
  • Product Delivery

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM), 03/2023, 10/2023
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
  • Walmart Certified Transformation Champion

Accomplishments

Walmart Engineering Excellence and Bravo

Employee of the Month

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart Global Tech
09.2021 - Current

Software Engineer 3

Walmart Global Tech
12.2018 - 08.2021

Technical Lead

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
03.2018 - 12.2018

Senior Software Developer

Royal Cyber India Pvt Ltd
08.2016 - 02.2018

Software Engineer

TCS
06.2015 - 07.2016

IBM BPM Developer

HCL
12.2011 - 05.2015

Bachelor's of Engineering - Information Science

Vivekananda college of engineering and technology
Ashwath Kumar