Lakshmi Pusuluri
DUBLIN,CA
Summary
Java/J2EE professional with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry building, operating, and scaling enterprise-grade distributed systems.
Brings more than 10 years of hands-on design and development experience using Java/J2EE, with strong focus on service-oriented and distributed architectures.
Extensive background in production engineering and reliability, supporting high availability and scalability for mission-critical platforms.
Experienced in cloud migration and modernization, including production-safe data migrations and platform hardening.
Hands-on experience with multiple GCP services such as Cloud Functions, Dataproc jobs, data workflows, and BigQuery analytics.
Deep expertise in Java, JVM internals, multithreading, performance tuning, and database connection optimization in production environments.
Strong experience designing microservices architectures using Spring Boot, containerized with Docker and orchestrated through Kubernetes.
Proven experience building event-driven architectures using Kafka to support high-throughput and low-latency workflows.
Led and reviewed system architectures, performance models, and scalability strategies for enterprise-scale workloads.
Designed and validated disaster recovery strategies, blue-green deployments, and capacity planning for peak traffic scenarios.
Built automation frameworks using Python and scripting to improve operational efficiency and deployment reliability.
Strong knowledge of security, access controls, and compliance-aware system design.
Hands-on experience with Oracle, PL/SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and working knowledge of Cassandra and Redis-based caching systems.
Key contributor to the Capital One Visa card migration from private label platforms, ensuring secure and uninterrupted payment operations.
Recognized for strong problem-solving skills, cross-team collaboration, and consistent delivery of reliable, scalable solutions.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Software Engineer | SRE
Kohl's Corporation
San Ramon, CA
03.2021 - Current
- Technical leader responsible for enterprise reliability, scalability, and operational risk management across Kohl’s omnichannel commerce ecosystem, supporting 1,100+ retail locations and high-volume digital and mobile traffic.
- Operated with cross-org authority, influencing platform, application, networking, and security teams to ensure production excellence at peak scale.
- Drove enterprise reliability, scalability, and operational risk reduction across Kohl’s omnichannel commerce ecosystem, supporting 1,100+ retail locations and high-volume digital and mobile traffic during peak seasonal events.
- Exercised cross-organizational technical authority to influence platform, application, networking, and security teams, materially improving production stability and peak-scale readiness across the commerce stack.
- Led NetX and OpenShift migration initiatives, successfully eliminating reliance on deprecated Cloud VPN infrastructure, reducing peak-season operational risk, and enabling safer, more resilient production cutovers.
- Owned production readiness testing and cutover execution for critical platform migrations, ensuring zero- or low-impact transitions during high-traffic periods.
- Influenced enterprise cloud networking and security standards by designing secure network architectures, firewall strategies, and traffic controls aligned with large-scale commerce workloads.
- Delivered end-to-end reliability, scalability, and operational readiness across core commerce domains, including Cart & Checkout, Payments, Fraud, Inventory & Promising, Account & Wallet, Store Transactions, and Returns.
- Standardized and hardened deployment practices by enabling GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment consistency, security posture, and release velocity across multiple domains in partnership with BT.
- Received a retention bonus for my critical work on firewall rules implementation and cleanup. This recognition highlights the value of maintaining robust security and compliance standards
Staff Site Reliability Engineer | Production Engineering
Kohl's Corporation
Milpitas, CA
05.2015 - 03.2021
- Delivered 10+ years of impact at Kohl’s by building, scaling, and operating large-scale digital commerce platforms across application development, cloud migration, production engineering, and site reliability engineering.
- Transitioned from senior application development into Production Engineering to build deep end-to-end ownership across design, infrastructure, performance, security, and operations, materially improving platform reliability at scale.
- Played a key role in enterprise GCP migration, modernizing on-prem monoliths into cloud-native, open-source platforms using Spring microservices, Node.js, and Terraform while ensuring production readiness and low-risk cutovers.
- Enabled high-throughput distributed order processing by contributing to Spring Batch–based architectures sustaining ~2,000 orders per server per minute without database contention.
- Prevented recurring batch failures by diagnosing and fixing a critical runtime infinite loop in tax calculation logic through deep thread-dump analysis and precise code-path isolation.
- Improved peak-traffic resilience by designing low-dependency, failover-friendly data access patterns, reducing cascading failures during high-load events.
- Recognized Subject Matter Expert for Cart and Checkout platforms, influencing architecture, implementation, production engineering, and operational practices across teams.
- Drove the organization’s evolution from Production Engineering to Site Reliability Engineering, reducing operational toil through automation, standardized runbooks, and reliability-first practices.
- Increased observability and reduced MTTR by leading end-to-end correlation ID logging across Browse, Account, Cart, and Checkout systems, aligning multiple teams and downstream integrations.
- Built an automated workflow to update shipping SLAs, coordinating Redis, in-memory caching layers, and ZooKeeper configuration changes to ensure consistency and prevent outages and sales impact.
Senior developer, Lead and onsite co-coordinator,Jr Architect
Verizon Wireless
Walnutcreek, CA
08.2013 - 05.2015
- Verizon Wireless was the first national wireless provider in the United States to build and operate a large-scale 4G LTE network— This project is for mDOT, TDOT Verizon wireless postpaid sites. It's an online store, which is being implemented in the ATG framework. This is basically migrated from the J2EE project to the ATG platform online store. Customers can shop for new devices, plans, services and accessories or upgrade their device, and can add a new line to the existing account.
- Complete involvement of Verizon Wireless post paid site migration from legacy to ATG 10.0.2 for Tablet /Mobile and Desktop.
- Involving in Analysis, design and implementation in all phases of the project from omni 3 to 9.
- I took care of the performance of my modules where I implemented, and involved in code reviews.
- Involved in Checkout & cart functionality of online shops and worked on EDGE Program and Combo orders
- Played onsite coordinator and lead for a few phases apart from development.
- Stabilize the environment, data setup for development environments during the initial stage of the project. Defect triaging and fixing, issue analyzer.
- Expertise of analyzing the problems, fast grasping of business and ease of working without knowledge transfers. Strong in technical side and worked on Endeca as well. Expertise in Telecommunications & ecommerce domain.
Sr. ATG Developer & Lead
Bed Bath and Beyond
New Jersey
06.2013 - 08.2013
- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is a chain of domestic merchandise retail stores across the United States, Canada and Mexico. The stores sell goods primarily for the bedroom and bathroom, as well as kitchen and dining room. Involved in 2 months production support for ATG App support and Endeca at client location and go live activities.
Track Lead & senior developer, Production Support Engineer
SAPIENT , Sprint
Benguluru, India
03.2010 - 05.2013
- Sprint Nextel is widely known as the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the US. This functional area enables a user to shop for accessories only in the Sprint 2.0 online store implemented using ATG ecommerce. Involved in most complex algorithm implementations that are used for applying BOGO promotions and handled the team who are new to functionalities (business) and code and successfully delivered the project.
- I have been involved in several projects under the same client and designed and implemented the whole life cycle of these projects. I was a Senior platform engineer to Track lead and platform specialist. During this time I was involved in different projects under the same account. They are Sprint Buyback , Accessory only, Business personalization , solution bundles integrated with Cart ,Bogo Card and Cart & checkout flows. Track lead for off shore team , Handled offshore /onsite syncups and POC for any production issues. Held daily LLP’s and cross team syncups.
Senior Platform java developer
SapientNitro
Benguluru, India
01.2009 - 03.2010
- This tool is a custom tool that utilizes maven and its advance features to enable you to develop, build, test and deploy a JAVA-J2EE based application with a quick turn around time. It provides standard project structure; build configuration and standard reference application for the tech stack of the project. Basically this is an internal project to support all other teams to create development ready setup for various tech stacks from the front end to back end with code review tools and other code standard compliances. Create the common org level maven repositories for various third party jars etc. This provides a diff tech stack combination and different app servers.
Developer, Designing, DB creation, Project Deployment and release.
IPASS ,Ryder Cup
Bengulur, India
01.2007 - 09.2008
- Designed and delivered a next-generation Java/J2EE system (Ryder Cup) to replace a legacy platform supporting IPASS fixed broadband operations. Implemented end-to-end workflows using JBPM, automating order, ticket, and next-action processing and reducing manual intervention. Built asynchronous processing using JMS Message-Driven Beans, improving system throughput and decoupling long-running business operations. Exposed core business capabilities—order creation, ticket creation, and next-action lifecycle management—as Spring Web Services, enabling seamless integration with the HP PAS system. Enabled automated email notifications to providers and customers based on workflow state changes, improving communication accuracy and response time. Delivered a scalable, service-oriented architecture capable of supporting high transaction volumes and future business growth.
Developer
MindTree, Common Platform
Benguluru, India
07.2005 - 11.2006
- Involved in 2 projects at Mindtree. Common platform for IATA and Dubal Aluminium Company
- IATA - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is its global trade organization. These common modules are built under Platform project and that adapted Service oriented Architecture (SOA). Platform components are the Technical components that would be used across the IATA Project..The services and Components in which I have involved are Encryption and Decryption of passwords ,Email components,Session Death Management &PMUI.
- Dubal Aluminium Company -The main aim of this project is to computerize the functionality of Aluminum Company. Mainly this project contains several modules that are with Aluminium business.Especially i involved in UML diagrams creation and implementation of Customer Profile module and Plant location Details.
Software Engineer
Virtusa, I/INSURE & Staples, Staples PMAS
Hyderabad India
09.2004 - 06.2005
- Joined the organization as a fresher and completed structured training across multiple Java and enterprise technologies. Developed portal-based applications, including a Calendar Portlet, and implemented themes and skins to support UI customization. Gained hands-on experience with JMS and IBM MQ Series, contributing to messaging-based integrations. Authored internal documentation on JMS and IBM MQ to support team onboarding and knowledge sharing. Designed and implemented an Online Examination system as part of fresher training, building a reusable question bank for recruitment processes. Developed the application using the Struts framework, covering end-to-end design, development, and validation.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Computer science and Math’s
Andhra University
Vishakapatnam, India09-2004
Skills
- Technologies : Core Java, ava / J2EE Frameworks, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Nodejs, Javascript,Typescript,React js ,ATG Ecommerce Servlets, JSP, Struts Framework, EJB, JDBC and C, C, Hibernate
- Python, Shell Scripting,JBOSS , Weblogic , Jetty ,Tomcat Application servers
- IDE Tools: Eclipse 31,STS,IntelliJ, Visual Studio ,Build tools : Ant , Maven and gradle
- Databases: Oracle and MySQL,Mongo , Big Query , Knowledge on Cassandra , Hazle cast
- Application Servers: WebLogic , JBOSS, JBOSS, Tomcat,Apache webserver
- Cloud platforms : GCP , AWS , Managed services , Cloud functions , Data proc Job ,Big Query , Reports & Data analyticsGit ,Jenkins , Gitlab CICD pipelines ,Work experience in other version control tools like CVS SVN
- Monitoring Tools :Dynatrace,Splunk,Akamai,Mpulse, Internal Monitoring Tools,Google
- Others: JMS with JBOSS, and MDB’s, and Web services,Apache Kafka , Redis,Postman, openshift , Kubernetes,Terraform
- Project management experience
- Team leadership
- Interpersonal relationship building
- Web application development
- Network security
- Agile methodology expertise
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Software architecture design
- Cross-platform development
- Code review proficiency
- Performance optimization techniques
Certification
- Leveraging Generative AI for Business Applications (In progress)
- Cloud computing (AWS /GCP )
- Acquired SCJP (1.5) certification.
- Oracle ATG Web Commerce 10 Implementation Developer Essentials
Timeline
Staff Software Engineer | SRE
Kohl's Corporation
03.2021 - Current
Staff Site Reliability Engineer | Production Engineering
Kohl's Corporation
05.2015 - 03.2021
Senior developer, Lead and onsite co-coordinator,Jr Architect
Verizon Wireless
08.2013 - 05.2015
Sr. ATG Developer & Lead
Bed Bath and Beyond
06.2013 - 08.2013
Track Lead & senior developer, Production Support Engineer
SAPIENT , Sprint
03.2010 - 05.2013
Senior Platform java developer
SapientNitro
01.2009 - 03.2010
Developer, Designing, DB creation, Project Deployment and release.
IPASS ,Ryder Cup
01.2007 - 09.2008
Developer
MindTree, Common Platform
07.2005 - 11.2006
Software Engineer
Virtusa, I/INSURE & Staples, Staples PMAS
09.2004 - 06.2005
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Computer science and Math’s
Andhra University