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Vinay Pachunoori

Vinay Pachunoori

SENIOR DIRECTOR
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Strategic and results-driven Senior Director of Software Engineering with a proven track record in leading the Supply Chain Data platform for Walmart, overseeing a diverse team of over 150 distributed engineering professionals across the US and India. With more than 23 years of experience, expertise includes steering high-performance software engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions within complex and dynamic environments. Demonstrated ability to align technology initiatives with overarching business objectives, consistently contributing to organizational success through the development of cutting-edge software products and solutions. A commitment to fostering collaboration and driving excellence ensures impactful results that propel business growth.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
2022
2022
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head of Data Platform, Senior Director

Coupang
07.2024 - Current

Heading the Coupang Data Platform and Data engineering teams across regions Korea, US and India.
Leading the 30 plus engineering organization focusing on building Data platform, Frameworks to handle Peta bytes of data in data lake.

Led the Coupang data ecosystem transormation journey fromfrom heavy manual ETL development to self-service wizard-based development reducing the effort by 60%
Led the Data governance for Coupang, identifying the Critical data assets , defining the ownership, classifying the PCI,PII data, building lineage and establishing usability score. Data governance effort resulted in deleting 90% tables from 1.3 million to 100k tables and entire table life cycle was automated
Customized Open metadata to the scale of Coupang
Migrated 50000 plus reports from Red ash to Super set and built features of caching in Superset which are not available in open source
Led the Operations Excellence initiative for Coupang in driving the Incident management improved the SLA landing times from 90% to 99.8% and this was made possible by improving the reliability, observability and focus on automation. Revamped the MTTD and MTTR metrics by enhancing the alerting fwk based in critical path algorithm.
AI first approach for development and adoption of Windsurf resulting in 30% reduction of development effort
Led the Data agent framework for Coupang based on RAG and operationalization of the product to deploy interactive bots for analytics teams resulting in savings of 600 person days effort only from vertical “Brand Management system”

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Walmart Labs
02.2018 - 06.2024
  • Implemented one of largest data lake of supply chain in retail space acquiring data from 100 plus distribution centers, 100 plus Fulfillment centers in near real time powered by legacy databases like Informix , DB2 in Change data capture built on Confluent's Kafka Connect handling billion events per day.
  • Led Walmart's store sales and returns transaction platform for 11000 plus stores handling 45M transactions per day generating 1plus Billion-dollar revenue per day across globe.
  • Incubated and Lead engineering team to build cloud agnostic (Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud) ETL Data Platform based on Apache Beam at Walmart enabling 800 plus data engineering and data analytics associates to develop data pipelines declaratively
  • Currently executing 50k plus pipelines per day in moving peta bytes of data from various OLTP systems like Oracle, DB2,Informix,IBM Mainframes, Files to Data lakes both in batch and real time.
  • Reduced the data discovery and touch points over 90% : Conceptualized the industry first idea of "DataVerse" a platform that provides a Meta data search like Google in discovering data assets, social features in connecting associates , Data stewards, Data modelers, SME and teams based on data assets and provides Trust based Usability scores .DataVerse accelerated the search-ability and reduced touch points over 90%.
  • Cloud cost optimisation over 50% : Conceived, Crafted and build the cloud optimisation product for Walmart in creating and consuming GCP services like Big Query, Google Cloud storage and Dataproc scale that led to cloud savings of more than 50%.Detection of bad practices

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Amazon
01.2017 - 02.2018
  • Leading the Big Data platform team in Amazon's Retail Pricing crawls more than 100 million items across 5 competitors and provides pricing recommendation in real time which drives price competitiveness of Amazon Managed the technology team that builds the solutions based on Big Data stack like EMR, Apache Spark, Hive, S3, DynamoDB to enables the Retail business to derive critical insights of Amazon competitiveness.
  • Roles and responsibilities involve leading the engineering team, interacting with customers, collaboration with Product managers, stakeholder managements, running architectural and design discussions with teams and building careers.

SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER

EBay, Inc
01.2011 - 01.2017
  • EBay, Inc , Bangalore, India
  • EBay, Inc, Bangalore, India
  • Incubated and Established Hadoop platform team
  • Lead engineering team which build cluster management and automation platform for 12000 plus on-Prem Hadoop Nodes and is open sourced as Apache Eagle
  • Partner with product management to set direction for platform features and enhancements development
  • Closely engaged with Cloudera and HDP for improving Hadoop Platform
  • Working with team across geographies for building real time monitoring and automated remediation frameworks
  • Hadoop modernization initiatives migrating eBay distributed Hadoop platform from 1.X to 2.X and enabled cluster availability to 99% from 60%
  • Attracting Talent, building teams, to build robust, scalable and high-performance Hadoop Engineering group
  • Worked with Product Management to provide feature of OLAP on BigData and contributed to Apache Kylin

PRINCIPAL MEMBER TECHNICAL STAFF

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
04.2008 - 04.2011
  • Oracle India Pvt Ltd , Bangalore, India
  • Managing and leading EclipseLink/JPA product
  • Engaging with Product Management and customer facing teams handling more than 100 customer connects
  • Planning, designing and delivery of Applications built on using TopLink/JPA and reducing effort to validate regression by 90%
  • Leading Example driven approach for Documentation in JDeveloper for eclipse link which accelerated developer productivity by 50%
  • Developing Migration and Integration scenarios for TopLink/JPA in JDeveloper
  • Providing support to customer by actively interacting with them in forums, workshops and Seminars.

TECH LEAD

MindTree Consulting, India Pvt Ltd
08.2004 - 08.2007
  • Consultant and Senior Software Engineer building solutions for AIG, USA handling feature development, bug fixes and customer issues
  • Senior Java Developer for PSA shipping port application
  • Designed and developed automated platform to validate XML data issues which reduced data bugs by 90% and improved developer productivity by 2X times
  • Build e2e web application based on Java and J2EE tech stack
  • Acted as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and point of contact for escalated queries and concerns for team of engineers
  • Validated proposed developments through rigorous customer testing.

Education

Executive Management Program -

India School of Business(ISB)

Executive Management and Leadership Program -

Indian Institute of Management(IIM)

Skills

■ Google Cloud (GCP, BIGQUERY, GCS,DATA PROC)

■ BIG DATA ENGINEERING(ETL, DATA QUALITY, BATCH AND REAL TIME STREAMING)

■ BIG DATA PLATFORMS(Apache Spark ,APACHE STORM, AIRFLOW, DOCKER, KUBERNETEES,Apache Kafka

■ APACHE HADOOP, HDFS,APACHE HIVE, APACHE HUDI, DELTA LAKE, YARN

■ AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS),EMR, Redshift,S3, DyanamoDB

■ Java, PYTHON AND SQL

Timeline

Head of Data Platform, Senior Director

Coupang
07.2024 - Current

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Walmart Labs
02.2018 - 06.2024

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Amazon
01.2017 - 02.2018

SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER

EBay, Inc
01.2011 - 01.2017

PRINCIPAL MEMBER TECHNICAL STAFF

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
04.2008 - 04.2011

TECH LEAD

MindTree Consulting, India Pvt Ltd
08.2004 - 08.2007

Executive Management and Leadership Program -

Indian Institute of Management(IIM)

Executive Management Program -

India School of Business(ISB)
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