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Chandra Prakash

Chandra Prakash

Bangalore

Summary

Visionary technology leader with over 20 years of experience leading digital transformation and fulfillment innovation in global e-commerce. Currently leading the Sourcing and Promise Engine for Sam’s Club E-commerce at Walmart, managing a 40+ member engineering team across core sourcing, distributor & carrier data, and fulfilment & carrier capacity. Proven success in scaling high-impact engineering teams, aligning technology with business strategy, and delivering measurable outcomes across supply chain, fulfillment, and customer experience domains. Adept at including Generative AI technologies to streamline development workflows and reduce cloud infrastructure costs in day-to-day operations and building resilient platforms, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring future leaders in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Engineering Manager

Walmart
06.2022 - Current
  • Led the engineering efforts for the Sourcing and Promise Engine, a critical component of Sam’s Club’s e-commerce fulfillment platform, ensuring accurate and efficient order sourcing and delivery commitments.
  • Spearheaded critical tech modernization initiatives like OneOps to WCNP migration, JDK Migration and building GenAI based Promise Assist tool for productivity gain.
  • Delivered high-impact business features like Unscheduled Delivery, Pool-Based Capacity, LTL Scheduled Delivery, Enabling Capacity for DSV, Future Inventory and Source from Anywhere.
  • Lead 40+ member engineering team across core sourcing, distributor & carrier data, and fulfillment & carrier capacity domains.
  • Guided the team in adopting Generative AI technologiesto streamline development workflows and reduce cloud infrastructure costs in day-to-day operations.
  • Collaborated with product, operations, and data science teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
  • Mentored a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Senior Engineering Manager

Target India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 05.2022
  • Working as Engineering leader to guide team for building new omni-channel Repository to serve Digital and Brick & mortar Orders spread across hundreds of nodes in NoSQL Distributed Cluster environment of Cassandra and Elasticsearch.
  • Leading the team for building and enhancing custom Order Management System based on Event Driven Micro-service Architecture in Java & Springboot to orchestrate Digital and Store Orders in respective pipelines.
  • Working with multiple partners to modernise Sales and Return flow for achieving single Enterprise level end to end solution of Digital as well as Store Orders.
  • Collaborating with Product Partners to define the roadmap of system and to enhance Customer Digital experience with help of new Elasticsearch capabilities.
  • Building data driven Technological solution like intelligent cache to achieve better scalability and SLA.
  • Lead the design and development of end to end Order Pipeline processes - Ingestion, Validation, Allocation, Release, Shipment, Invoice, Returns, Exchange, Backorders, Repromise, Concessions, Order Holds, Monitors etc for various type of Orders like Ship to Home, Store Pickup, Ship To Store, Drive-Up, Pre Orders etc.
  • Facilitating Agile and DevOps Development methodologies and leading the entire team to successfully deliver the product goals.
  • Worked as Solution Architect to enhance Order and Inventory management system based on IBM Sterling Commerce Foundation suite, integrated with external Inventory and Allocation systems.
  • Established performance metrics for monitoring team progress towards key objectives, driving accountability and transparency among team members.

Associate Managing Consultant

IBM Software Labs
01.2014 - 07.2015
  • Worked as SME to guide an omni-channel USA retailer in building and enhancing their Order and Inventory Management processes including Sourcing & Scheduling, Release, Shipment, Invoicing, Order Monitor, Returns etc.
  • Helped teams in Software labs to build knowledge in IBM Sterling Order and Inventory management products.

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2005 - 01.2014
  • Close to 4 years of Onsite experience consulting with a USA retailer to build end to end Order Management system.
  • Worked as Solution Architect to enhance Order management system based on IBM Sterling Commerce Foundation suite for various USA Retailers.
  • Lead the Design and Development of different features in IBM Sterling OMS like Pipelines Configurations, Agents, Integration Server, Use Exists, Events, Database Extensions, Order and Shipment Monitors, Global Inventory Visibility, DOM, Exceptions etc.
  • Worked on development in IBM Sterling Commerce Call Centre and Store Inventory Management User interfaces.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

Birla Institute of Technology
01.2005

12th Academic - undefined

Delhi Public School
01.2000

Certification

  • IBM Certified Solution Designer - Sterling Order Management V9.2
  • IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Sterling Order Management V9.1

Timeline

Senior Engineering Manager

Walmart
06.2022 - Current

Senior Engineering Manager

Target India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 05.2022

Associate Managing Consultant

IBM Software Labs
01.2014 - 07.2015

Senior Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2005 - 01.2014

12th Academic - undefined

Delhi Public School

Bachelor of Engineering -

Birla Institute of Technology
Chandra Prakash