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Ramya Uppuluri

Dallas

Summary

Engineering Manager with over 15 years of experience leading teams to deliver enterprise solutions, generating over $1B in revenue. Specializes in scaling engineering organizations, and implementing AI/ML initiatives, while modernizing legacy systems into microservice architectures. Successfully managed cross-functional teams, achieving a 30% reduction in operational costs and an 85% improvement in system performance. Committed to fostering inclusive engineering cultures and mentoring future technical leaders.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Engineering Manager

SAMS CLUB (Walmart Inc.)
Dallas
07.2024 - Current
  • Led cross-functional team of ML engineers and researchers in designing and fine-tuning LLMs and transformer architectures for conversational AI, enhancing response relevance.
  • Mentored junior engineers, guiding technical decisions in prompt engineering and inference optimization.
  • Oversaw development of advanced chatbots and virtual assistants (GPT, BERT, T5, Llama), prioritizing human-like interaction and scalability.
  • Drove integration of multimodal AI capabilities (text-to-image, text-to-speech) through collaboration with product, UX, and data science teams.
  • Architected end-to-end deployment pipelines on AWS, Azure, and GCP using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring performance and security.
  • Led A/B testing initiatives, establishing KPIs to reduce hallucinations and improve model precision.
  • Coordinated with leadership on roadmap planning, aligning AI team objectives with organizational strategy.
  • Published internal research and contributed to open-source AI communities to promote engineering excellence.

Senior Engineer Manager

Walmart
Dallas
08.2022 - Current
  • Spearheaded initiatives to enhance productivity of store associates across 4K+ Walmart US locations, contributing to over $1B in FY23 sales.
  • Managed eight engineers and collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather system requirements, achieving an 18% improvement in app ratings.
  • Orchestrated development of associate mobile app microservices using Spring Boot, Java, and Node.js, boosting store sales by 40% and online sales by 12%.
  • Established a robust automation framework for testing, reducing technical debt by 50% and proactively eliminating over 60% of bugs.
  • Digitized Fresh Production app with an improved UI design, realizing faster loading speeds and digitizing 100% of store associate reports.
  • Employed telemetry tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace to proactively resolve 40% of infrastructure issues, reducing Mean Time to Detect.
  • Enhanced engineering framework to optimize applications and scale transactions by over 20%, decreasing infrastructure resource usage by 30%.
  • Designed frameworks to improve pipeline and cross-platform integration, cutting test execution and deployment time by 40%.

Senior Software Engineer Lead

Walmart
Dallas
04.2021 - 08.2022
  • Lead engineer and liaison supporting Inventory Management and Replenishment for Fresh, Bakery, and Deli Departments across 4K+ Walmart US stores.
  • Transformed Fresh Production app to digitize 100% of reports and encourage adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) for 2M+ store associates.
  • Managed end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from gathering requirements to code maintenance, improved speed by 85% for data requests.
  • Proactively addressed critical issues, implemented automated alerts which reduced error rates, and realized 75% reduction in support tickets.
  • Automated testing framework by implementing Continuous Improvement (CI)/ Continuous Delivery (CD) processes; reduced time to deploy new builds by 45%.
  • Pioneered migration of 20K+ user app (Spring Boot backend) which improved application speed by 17% and enabled significant reduction in server costs.

Java Software Engineer

Walmart
Dallas
05.2016 - 08.2018
  • Digitized 100% of activity metrics and reporting for 8.5K+ store managers.
  • Optimized application web services, normalized SQL tables, and resolved data synchronization issues, resulting in reduction of infrastructure costs by over 20%.

Software Development Engineer in Test

V3 Staffing Solutions
Hyderabad
07.2014 - 03.2016
  • Upgrade and enhance the existing Banking Legacy System with upgrading technologies.
  • Contributed to advancement of Big Data technology and analytics tools as part of modernizing systems to minimize data load time by 40%.
  • Test plan document, Test cases for Web, Database and Web Services, brought down data Redundancy by 60%.
  • Participating in Organization Tool Evaluation for testing and Identified defects using QC helped to bring down overall effort by 80 percent.

Software Development Engineer in Test

Google
Hyderabad
04.2011 - 08.2011
  • Product involves in reviewing and testing content and content management tools for Google eBooks.
  • Managed test cycles, including plan creation, development of test cases to reduce bugs by 60%.
  • Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Technical Specification.
  • Prepared test plans and test scripts as per functional requirements.
  • Conducted backend testing on Oracle database using SQL queries to ensure integrity and consistency of data.
  • Worked on initiatives for improving processes for development of eBooks.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma - Computer Applications

Softline Institute of Computer Ed.

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

Andhra University

Skills

  • Java and JavaScript
  • Machine learning and A/B testing
  • Multimodal AI integration
  • TypeScript and Nodejs
  • Python and batch processing
  • HTML and CSS
  • C programming
  • Spring Boot and J2EE
  • Cloud computing and DevOps
  • Spring JDBC and microservices architecture
  • Kubernetes and Kafka
  • MySQL and Azure SQL
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Cassandra
  • Splunk and Dynatrace
  • Jenkins and Jira
  • Grafana and Azure Storage Explorer
  • Performance engineering and automation frameworks
  • Full stack software development
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Team leadership and development

Websites

Devops Tools

  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Grafana
  • Azure Storage Explorer
  • One Ops
  • Jmeter
  • Looper

Telemetry Tools

  • Splunk
  • Dynatrace

Previous Roles

  • Software Development Engineer, Google, Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, True
  • QA Engineer, Bank of America, Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, True

Timeline

Senior Engineering Manager

SAMS CLUB (Walmart Inc.)
07.2024 - Current

Senior Engineer Manager

Walmart
08.2022 - Current

Senior Software Engineer Lead

Walmart
04.2021 - 08.2022

Java Software Engineer

Walmart
05.2016 - 08.2018

Software Development Engineer in Test

V3 Staffing Solutions
07.2014 - 03.2016

Software Development Engineer in Test

Google
04.2011 - 08.2011

Post Graduate Diploma - Computer Applications

Softline Institute of Computer Ed.

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

Andhra University

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