Sruthi Ganesan Valli

Dynamic Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience at Nordstrom, leading impactful initiatives and mentoring junior engineers. Proficient in Java and Spring Boot, I excel in translating complex requirements into actionable tasks while fostering collaboration across teams. Recognized for enhancing system performance and delivering robust solutions in high-pressure environments.

TD Migration - Upcoming

Nordstrom's card provider has moved to another provider (TD bank) which would result in business changes related to credit cards and in turn bring new changes in credit systems. This project is to collaborate with the credit team to understand changes and update customer space system based on this move.

• Role: I will be leading the migration effort for this team which will include identifying the changes from the CCKS project, eventing and code logic changes.

GitLab to GitHub Migration - In progress

All code repositories for all technical teams in Nordstrom are currently managed in GitLab. This project is to migrate all code repositories from GitLab to GitHub for effective development, more CI/CD customization through GitHub actions and for better automation of pipelines. 

• Business value: Helps reduce licensing and infrastructure costs, improves efficiency, provides unified developer experience and increases collaboration velocity.
• Role: I will be leading this migration effort for the team.

Proton to Confluent Migration - Completed

The internal self-managed system at Nordstrom, to create and manage Kafka topics  and clusters was very expensive for the company. This effort was to migrate to Confluent with a subscription model 

• Business value: Saved $30,000 in business value for the company and freed up engineering resources.
• Role: Migrated all topics managed and used by customer team from the internal Proton platform to Confluent.
• Tech used: Java, Sprint Boot, Terraform, New Relic and Kafka

CCKS - Credit Customer Sync - Completed

Syncing Nordstrom card data from the credit system to the customer space which serves as source of data for the digital Nordstrom website. 

• Business value: Keep card data between source and downstream in-sync, improving customer experience, and saving $200,000 in business value where customers had precise card data available digitally to shop effectively and gain loyalty benefits.
• Role: Designed and developed a Kafka consumer which consumes different Account Maintenance Events to keep card data in sync between the customer and credit systems.
• Tech used: Java, Sprint Boot, NewRelic, Confluent and Kafka