Murali Selvanambi
Oregon,Oregon
Summary
Engineering Leader with over a decade of experience delivering complex data platforms and logistics systems. Expertise in data architecture, platform engineering, and product thinking, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams to execute data enablement strategies, integrate GenAI, and foster a data mesh approach. Adept at managing multi-million-dollar programs and driving innovation
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Lead
Staples Inc
Oregon
08.2023 - Current
- Partnered closely with product leaders and stakeholders across multiple teams to align data strategy with business objectives, ensuring seamless integration and consistent solutions.
- Defined and enforced engineering standards for data-centric software development across the organization, resulting in a 25% reduction in code defects and improved code maintainability.
- Drove production budget strategy, aligning technical roadmap with business goals and stakeholder priorities, ensuring on-budget delivery of multi-region deployments.
- Led vendor negotiations, contract planning, and integration of third-party logistics platforms, reducing vendor overhead by 20% while improving service uptime and reliability.
- Oversaw an integrated team of backend and frontend engineers to deliver scalable logistics solutions within a data mesh architecture, boosting productivity by 25%, strengthening team collaboration, and improving data governance.
- Built key components of an enterprise data mesh, enabling federated data ownership through centralized capabilities and governance.
- Integrated GenAI-powered features into reporting workflows, improving data insights and decision-making speed.
- Introduced scalable CI/CD pipelines and modular design systems, cutting delivery lead times by 40% and enabling continuous creative iteration without infrastructure delays.
- Owned end-to-end production of an in-house route management platform, balancing engineering scalability with UX simplicity - enabling teams to deliver on tight timelines while retaining creative control.
Principal Architect
Staples Inc
Oregon
04.2023 - Current
- Communicated technical roadmaps and project status to stakeholders at all levels, from engineering teams to executive leadership, ensuring alignment and transparency, and facilitating informed decision-making.
- Developed services for consistent KPI/metric definition, lineage, and publication, ensuring data accuracy and alignment across teams.
- Spearheaded transition to event-driven architecture (Kafka-based), empowering internal creative and logistics teams to access real-time insights, boosting decision-making speed and campaign accuracy.
- Leveraged Kafka, Databricks, and Snowflake in event-driven architecture, improving message processing efficiency by 38% and enabling advanced analytics capabilities.
- Played a pivotal role in connecting back-end systems to front-end creative interfaces, enabling seamless storytelling for operations, delivery, and customer engagement teams.
- Designed and implemented a data pipeline using Databricks and Snowflake, improving data processing speed by 40%.
- Mentored junior engineers and collaborated with cross-functional creatives, fostering a culture of experimentation, ownership, and storytelling across design and development teams.
Senior Staff Member
eBay Inc
Oregon
10.2018 - 04.2023
- Coordinated the integration of payment processors and gateways, ensuring secure transactions among buyers, sellers, and charities.
- Worked on card issuing/acquiring platforms integrating with networks like Visa/Mastercard, with a strong focus on latency, security, and compliance.
- Developed and enforced platform-wide standards for production readiness, CI/CD, and resiliency, maintaining 99.9% availability during peak global events and reducing security vulnerabilities by 30%.
- Managed cross-border, multi-million-dollar technical productions involving secure payments and real-time user interactions across creative fundraising campaigns.
- Utilized Databricks and Spark for large-scale data processing and analytics, enabling faster insights and improved decision-making.
- Enabled 25% faster transaction settlements by redesigning core payment flows, directly improving the user experience and increasing donor satisfaction by 20% during major nonprofit and celebrity-backed campaigns.
- Worked alongside design and marketing teams to integrate AI/ML features into donor experiences, boosting engagement by 25% through personalization and targeted storytelling.
Member of Technical Staff
eBay Inc
Oregon
06.2016 - 10.2018
- Designed and implemented multi-tenant SaaS architecture, including tenant isolation via JWT/API keys, per-tenant rule engines with Redis/DB configs, white-labeled branding support, ledger segregation using tenant-aware schemas, tenant-specific rate limiting with Envoy/API Gateway, and per-tenant monitoring dashboards.
- Designed comprehensive payment flows that encompassed transaction validation, authorization, and settlement processes, ultimately enhancing transaction efficiency by 28%.
- Established engineering excellence practices, including continuous integration, test-driven development, and KPI-driven delivery metrics (code coverage, uptime, and team throughput), resulting in a 30% improvement in code quality and a 25% boost in feature delivery velocity over two quarters.
- Reduced money transfer failures by 15% by optimizing data ingestion pipelines that support nonprofit fundraising transactions.
- Collaborated with product and engineering teams to resolve issues in live environments, achieving an 18% reduction in Mean Time to Detect.
- Minimized system downtime by 35% through the implementation of rigorous quality assurance and automated testing strategies to ensure high availability.
- Oversaw quality assurance for eBay Charity, attaining a remarkable 99% platform availability.
- Enhanced search relevancy by 40% through the use of ELK, significantly improving the search experience.
- Integrated AI/ML into donation modules, boosting engagement by 25%.
Education
Anna University
Skills
- Leadership
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Planning
- Backend Development
- Java
- Spring Boot
- RESTful APIs
- Microservices
- Event-Driven Architecture
- IOS Development
- Android Development
- Testing
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Appium
- XCUITest
- CI/CD for mobile
- CI/CD
- Automation
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GitLab CI/CD
- CircleCI
- Terraform
- Cloud Platforms
- Azure
- AWS
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Data
- Messaging
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- SQL
- NoSQL Databases
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Performance Optimization
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- New Relic
- ECommerce
- Logistics
- Payment Gateways
- Transaction Processing
- Inventory Management
Certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Personal Information
Willing To Relocate: 1
Timeline
Engineering Lead
Staples Inc
08.2023 - Current
Principal Architect
Staples Inc
04.2023 - Current
Senior Staff Member
eBay Inc
10.2018 - 04.2023
Member of Technical Staff
eBay Inc
06.2016 - 10.2018
Anna University
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