Harsha Pateelu

• Serve as engineering lead for a high-impact product within Walmart’s internal data commercialization startup, with a $100M revenue target and $500M strategic charter.
• Lead a 58-member organization (through 2 engineering managers), fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous delivery.
• Provide strategic leadership in aligning technical execution with product vision and business priorities — from shaping the roadmap to setting quarterly OKRs in partnership with stakeholders.
• Drive architecture reviews, design strategy, and execution oversight to deliver scalable, secure, and reusable platform components aligned with Walmart’s enterprise-wide goals.
• Champion AI-driven productivity tooling across the SDLC, enabling a 10% gain in developer efficiency and accelerating feature delivery without compromising quality.
• Emphasize platform thinking by designing build-once, use-many-times systems that reduce redundancy and improve time-to-market for multiple internal teams.
• Uphold a high bar for code quality, system observability, and operational readiness through rigorous engineering standards and process discipline.
• Mentor senior engineers and future leaders, creating a strong technical bench and promoting knowledge sharing across teams.

• Led architecture and delivery for digital transformation initiatives, migrating legacy monoliths to scalable, event-driven microservices on AWS.
• Oversaw 4 globally distributed teams (US, LATAM, APAC, EMEA), driving alignment on architecture, design, and delivery practices.
• Balanced hands-on architectural work with people leadership — managing performance reviews, team growth, and technical mentoring.
• Partnered with business and product teams to define and deliver platform capabilities aligned to SLAs, OLAs, and long-term operational goals.
• Delivered six concurrent projects across cloud migration, workflow automation, and API modernization — on time and within budget.
• Championed reuse and internal enablement by designing domain-aligned services for cross-team adoption.

• Designed and implemented high-throughput APIs and backend systems using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kafka, MongoDB, Oracle, and AWS to support enterprise asset management and operational workflows.
• Owned the full software lifecycle — from architecture and PoC to CI/CD, monitoring, and production support.
• Led critical initiatives including:
  Real-time data pipelines using Kafka for tower health and telemetry ingestion.
  Scalable API layers consumed by global business partners and third-party systems.
  Multi-database integration, optimizing queries and caching across relational (Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB) stores.
• Conducted architecture reviews, improved system observability with ELK and Prometheus, and drove performance tuning.
• Introduced standardized templates for microservice scaffolding, reducing onboarding time and promoting consistency.
• Mentored and coached junior engineers, helping them move into senior roles and take ownership of components.

• Delivered full-stack enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and Oracle.
• Led feature development and enhancements across multiple modules including billing, asset tracking, and site access management.
• Refactored legacy systems for modularity and scalability, applying domain-driven design and layered architecture.
• Wrote unit and integration tests using JUnit and Mockito, and improved test coverage across services.
• Supported production deployments, debugging complex issues across distributed systems and collaborating with QA and ops teams to ensure system stability.

Worked at Worldpay, Apps Associates, Pinellas County, and others in Java/ADF-based full-stack roles, contributing to the design, development, and maintenance of enterprise applications across finance, public sector, and legal domains.