Naveen Sridhar
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Engineering leader with 15+ years delivering cloud-native systems for Lowe's, Home Depot, and Target, powering millions of users/transactions. Expert in Java/Spring microservices, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS/Azure, event-driven architectures, and Spanner/Cassandra/PostgreSQL/Teradata. Led re-platforming initiatives, CI/CD/SRE modernization, and AI-assisted development to boost reliability and delivery speed. Proven team builder partnering with product/operations to drive business impact.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Solution Architect - Supply Chain
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
10.2022 - Current
- Lead the design and evolution of a centralized supply chain platform for stores, e‑commerce, and distribution centers, supporting item, channel, and regional pricing decisions.
- Guide and coach cross‑functional engineering squads, setting expectations, providing feedback, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Own the modernization of legacy pricing, cost, and attribution services into resilient, secure microservices that integrate seamlessly with forecasting, replenishment, and order‑management systems.
- Institutionalize AI‑enabled engineering practices (AI‑assisted coding, automated test generation, intelligent reviews) to shorten development cycles and raise code quality.
- Implement streaming and event‑driven patterns plus robust development standards, branching strategies, and automated quality gates to deliver predictable releases with minimal operational disruption.
- Define and oversee cloud, observability, and reliability practices for high‑volume supply chain workloads, ensuring fast detection and resolution of pricing and item data issues while aligning roadmaps with Supply Chain Operations, Merchandising, Finance, and enterprise technology.
Lead Software Engineer - Central Price Management
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
10.2018 - 09.2022
- Lead a mission‑critical pricing platform that serves as the single source of truth across all selling channels, supporting millions of pricing operations and rapid price changes nationwide.
- Manage and mentor cross‑functional teams of 8–12 engineers, building a high‑trust, high‑performance culture grounded in ownership, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
- Own the multi‑year roadmap to re‑platform legacy pricing systems into Spring Boot microservices on GKE with Spanner, PostgreSQL, and Couchbase, achieving zero‑downtime migration and 99.9%+ availability.
- Champion AI‑assisted development (LLM‑based code generation, intelligent test creation, automated reviews) to cut routine coding work by ~30% and accelerate delivery by ~25%.
- Design and operate an event‑driven architecture with Google Pub/Sub and reactive WebFlux services, boosting throughput by 60% and reducing query latency by 40–45%.
- Set engineering standards, CI/CD and SRE practices, and observability (dashboards, alerting, chaos and performance testing) that improved team velocity by 35%, reduced incidents by 40%, and cut MTTR by 50%.
Technical Lead – Product Catalog
The Home Depot
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Led cloud‑native re‑platforming of the enterprise product catalog on GCP, processing millions of product records daily across upstream and downstream systems.
- Architected Spring Boot microservices with Docker and built Pub/Sub‑driven XML ingestion pipelines into PostgreSQL, achieving 99.9% data accuracy.
- Applied Java 8 features (lambdas, streams, Optional) to simplify code and improve processing performance by 40%.
- Championed Docker and CI/CD automation with Jenkins and Concourse and mentored a 5‑engineer team on microservices, cloud, and modern development practices, significantly improving release reliability.
Module Lead – Merchandising
Target Corporation
04.2012 - 05.2013
- Led MicroStrategy dashboard and report development over Teradata/DB2 to drive inventory management, stock optimization, and merchandising performance insights.
- Optimized complex analytical queries and ETL workflows, cutting BI report generation time by 50% and enhancing scheduled reporting reliability.
- Collaborated with data warehouse teams to design dimensional models, merchandising data marts, and optimized SQL/ETL implementations.
Software Engineer – Banking Built for Business
M&T Bank
04.2011 - 01.2012
- Delivered Spring/Hibernate services and SOAP web services for configurable commercial banking product bundles, enabling flexible packaging options and driving revenue growth.
- Applied proven J2EE design patterns (Singleton, Factory, DAO, Builder, Service Locator) and optimized Oracle stored procedures/views/queries to enhance performance and maintainability.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Visvesvaraya Technological University
IndiaSkills
Cloud Architecture & Platforms
Distributed systems - Microservices - Event-driven & domain-driven design - REST APIs - GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, Spanner, BigQuery) - AWS - Azure - IaC
Languages & Frameworks
Java - Kotlin - Python - TypeScript - Spring Boot/WebFlux/Batch/Security - Reactive programming - J2EE - SOAP/REST services
Data & Analytics
Spanner - Cassandra - PostgreSQL - Couchbase - Teradata - DB2 - BigTable - SQL optimization - Data warehousing - MicroStrategy BI
DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering
Kubernetes - Docker - Jenkins - Spinnaker - TeamCity - GitOps - CI/CD - Observability (Stackdriver) - Chaos engineering - Zero-downtime releases
AI/ML & Developer Productivity
AI-assisted coding - LLM code generation - Intelligent test generation - Automated code review - ML model integration - Predictive analytics
Engineering Leadership
Team building & mentoring - Technical roadmap ownership - Cross-functional collaboration - Agile delivery - Stakeholder alignment
Leadership & Professional Attributes
Strategic Execution
Action-oriented leader who thrives in ambiguity, decomposing complex initiatives into clear, deliverable technical roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
Team Building Excellence
Proven track record building and scaling high-performing engineering teams—growing engineers into senior roles while fostering ownership, innovation, and technical excellence.
Executive Communication
Skilled at presenting platform strategies and architecture decisions to senior leadership; seamless collaboration across product, operations, and enterprise architecture teams.
Technology Visionary
Champion of cloud modernization, AI-driven development, automation, observability, and SRE practices—committed to continuous learning and operational excellence.
Timeline
Solution Architect - Supply Chain
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
10.2022 - Current
Lead Software Engineer - Central Price Management
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
10.2018 - 09.2022
Technical Lead – Product Catalog
The Home Depot
01.2017 - 01.2018
Module Lead – Merchandising
Target Corporation
04.2012 - 05.2013
Software Engineer – Banking Built for Business
M&T Bank
04.2011 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Engineering -
Visvesvaraya Technological University