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Harish Dara

Harish Dara

Bentonville,AR

Summary

Knowledgeable and experienced Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience. Excellent API design, implementation and integration abilities paired with significant project leadership background. Exceptional success in delivering complex software development projects on time and within budget to exceed expectations.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart Global Tech
Bentonville, Arkansas
05.2022 - Current
  • Worked as Team Lead for Annual Inventory Application and responsible for modernizing SMART Processes to NextGen Applications.
  • Managed junior engineers, contractors in the team by providing the project requirements, code reviews and improvements.
  • Lead development effort by collaborating with Global Inventory Systems, DataHub, Enterprise Inventory, Inventory Services to build Applications for streamlining Inventory Finalization and adjustments calculation for all Walmart US stores.
  • Modernized Data Archival pipeline from On-Prem Hadoop Clusters to GCP BigQuery using Airflow and DataProc.
  • Successfully migrated Microservices deployed in OneOps to WCNP and onboarded them to Service Registry.
  • Reduced Technical Debt and ensured Operational Excellence of the Annual Inventory Application.

Software Engineer-III

Walmart Global Tech
Bentonville, Arkansas
08.2019 - 05.2022
  • Built Inventory Auditing application for Walmart stores using Java and Big Data technologies.
  • Implemented distributed event driven architecture using Kafka, Storm and streamed data sent by third-party Inventory Services.
  • Developed backend REST services using JAX-RS and Apache CXF that are called by application's front-end UI.
  • Responsible for developing data pipeline using Sqoop, Oozie to extract the data from Informix database to HDFS.
  • Developed Oozie workflows and they are scheduled through a scheduler monthly.
  • Created Hive tables, loading with data and writing Hive queries.
  • Created, configured and deployed applications onto OneOps cloud environment.
  • Implemented monitoring by integrating application with software tools like Medusa, Spotlight and created dashboards.

Software Engineer-II

Walmart Global Tech
Bentonville, Arkansas
11.2016 - 08.2019
  • Built applications on agile model, participated actively in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, review and retro meetings.
  • Built complex Apache STORM topologies to stream data from Kafka topics and process the messages.
  • Implemented Memcached caching mechanism in the Inventory Auditing application to reduce the database calls and improve efficiency.
  • Externalized RESTful API’s through tools like IBM API Connect providing authorization and authentication while accessing them.
  • Performed unit testing of the application, resolved code defects and ensured application meets the business needs.
  • Involved in application design and created technical documentation for the project.
  • Involved in preparing design documents - Technical Design, Functional Design, Technical Domain documents.

Software Engineer

SourceInfo Tech Inc.
Edison, New Jersey
07.2016 - 10.2016
  • Worked on building enterprise applications using Java, J2EE and Hibernate.
  • Developed web services using SOAP/REST Annotations using JERSEY implementation.
  • Attended training on various Java frameworks like Hibernate, Spring MVC and AOP modules.
  • Performed unit testing and created technical documentation for the project.

Student Technical Specialist

University of New Mexico - IT
Albuquerque, NM
12.2014 - 05.2016
  • Implemented shell scripts to perform daily maintenance tasks on various Oracle databases.
  • Performed data migrations and upgrade activities for college databases.
  • Extensively involved in writing MySQL, PL/SQL queries, to interact with Oracle.
  • Configured various Oracle and SQL Server databases in Groundworks tool and generated monitoring reports.
  • Developed maintenance plans, handled backup and restore operations, imported and exported data.

Systems Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd
India, India
06.2012 - 06.2014
  • Actively involved in analysis, detail design, development, bug fixing and enhancement in agile methodology.
  • Worked on building enterprise applications using Java, J2EE and Hibernate.
  • Expertise in Core Java concepts such as Object Oriented Design, Multithreading, Exception Handling, Collections and Annotations.
  • Worked on various Java frameworks like Hibernate, Spring MVC.
  • Developed web services using SOAP/REST Annotations using JERSEY implementation.
  • Used Collections extensively to store, retrieve and manipulate Objects in business logic layer.
  • Developed complex SQL queries, Stored Procedures, Triggers and Functions in Oracle.
  • Implemented a Maven repository management system for Java development and release builds environments.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science -

University of New Mexico
05.2016

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering -

K L College of Engineering
05.2012

Skills

  • Java
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Hive
  • PySpark
  • DataProc
  • BigQuery
  • Airflow
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • Informix
  • Spring Boot
  • Hibernate
  • Kafka
  • Storm
  • Spark
  • Git
  • Maven
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Splunk
  • Dynatrace
  • Grafana
  • Eclipse
  • IntelliJ
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Agile
  • Scrum

Accomplishments

  • Bravo Award awarded in March 2024 for delivering beyond the expectations.
  • Achieved ‘Associate of the Month’ award for outstanding performance and delivering the project within deadlines.
  • Achieved ‘On the Spot award’ award for the outstanding contribution to the project and minimizing the defects and performance tuning of the application.
  • Received Academic award of Excellence during freshmen year of under-graduation.
  • Published Papers in the field of Antennas in two International Journals during under graduation.

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart Global Tech
05.2022 - Current

Software Engineer-III

Walmart Global Tech
08.2019 - 05.2022

Software Engineer-II

Walmart Global Tech
11.2016 - 08.2019

Software Engineer

SourceInfo Tech Inc.
07.2016 - 10.2016

Student Technical Specialist

University of New Mexico - IT
12.2014 - 05.2016

Systems Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd
06.2012 - 06.2014

Master of Science in Computer Science -

University of New Mexico

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering -

K L College of Engineering
Harish Dara