ANIMESH SHUKLA

I graduated from Harcourt Butler Technical University Kanpur with Information Technology major in the year 2021. During my undergraduation I interned with HackerEarth where I was working as a Content Analyst Intern and was awarded with the SPOT award for outstanding contribution, prior to that I was working with Nettyffy Technologies as a Software Developer, there I worked on a chrome plugin that is published on Chrome Web Store. After completing my graduate coursework I joined Paytm as a full-time Software Engineer. During my tenure at Paytm, I was awarded with the Paytm RockStar Award for outstanding contribution during the quarter Oct'21 - Dec'21. Currently I'm working with Walmart Global Tech as a Software Engineer primarily in the area of backend development. I have keen interest in the area of Java Full Stack Development, Distributed Computing, Cloud Technologies, Data Structures and Algorithms. My preferred tech stack includes but not limited to Java, JavaScript (Node JS), Spring Boot. For a detailed list of my projects and achievements, check out my CV.


Experience

Software Engineer 3

Walmart Global Tech India

• Engineered core modules of a predictive alerting platform (patent pending), collaborating with data scientists to enable anomaly detection across diverse business domains.
• Transitioned the platform from a single data source (Azure Data Lake) to a dual-source architecture by integrating Google BigQuery, enabling multi-cloud data sourcing.
• Led the development of REST APIs using Java 8/Java 17 for the platform, which serves multiple business domains.
• Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 40% by optimizing Databricks workloads, tuning Cosmos DB usage, and right-sizing CPU cores across Kubernetes pods.
• Onboarded a critical business use case that reduced out-of-stock percentages, with an estimated savings of $100M annually.
• Designed a multi-threaded scheduler for periodic data retrieval and uploads from Azure Cosmos database.
• Achieved promotion to Software Engineer 3 in recognition of technical leadership, ownership, and innovation within 23 months.

May 2024 - present

Software Engineer 2

Walmart Global Tech India

• Working as a backend engineer (IN2) in an Agile environment in a team comprising of Engineers and Data Scientists in the Supply Chain Department under the umbrella of Sam's Club Tech.
• Owned the upgraded version of APIs of a predictive alerting tool that is being used across different business domains.
• Developed and integrated REST web services with internal services using Java8/Java17 and Spring Boot framework for distributed systems focused on high-availability and auto-scaling.
• Designed and implemented a multi-threaded job scheduler based on Producer and Consumer used to fetch data periodically from a NoSQL database and upload it in the form of attachment using exponential back off strategy and leverage its functionality to serve as a notification service.
• Designed and developed APIs to manage Databricks Job Workflows, integrated them with internal services.
• Configured cron expression based workflows on Apache Airflow using Python3.

June 2022 - May 2024

Software Engineer

Paytm

• Worked with the Paytm Insurance Team as a Backend Engineer for Health and Life Vertical
• Bagged RockStar award within first year
• Added new features to the Paytm Health Insurance Portal
• Reduced response time of feature APIs by 75%
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams Product, QA and UI
• Integrated partner APIs with Paytm Insurance APIs
• Monitored Paytm Insurance portal for potential vulnerabilities by triggering alerts.
• Performed unit testing of APIs using Mocha to ensure 100% code coverage.
• Mentored Interns to guide them deliver assigned tasks.
• Tech Stack - Node.js, MySQL, Redis, Thanos, Grafana, Kibana, Ubuntu

August 2021 - June 2022

Content Analyst Intern

HackerEarth

• Created and Curated questions for the Library and Hiring Challenges in multiple technologies.
• Reviewed HackerEarth's existing Library questions for technical errors.
• Added JavaScript code stubs (partial codes) to the code editor of algorithmic problems.

March 2021 - June 2021

Software Developer Trainee (Intern)

Nettyfy Technologies

• Developed a chrome-plugin for Nettyfy Technologies to scrape website.
• Plugin published in Chrome Web Store.
• Technology I had worked on includes JS, Vue JS, Strapi (CMS).

June 2020 - March 2021

Summer Research Intern

Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad

• Interned with Computer Vision and Biometrics Lab (CVBL) IIIT Allahabad
• Worked on a project Image Colorization via Compression using Deep Learning.
• Designed an Autoencoder Network to colorize grayscale images and thereby compress it.
• Trained an autoencoder network on CIFAR-10 dataset.
• Implemented research papers related to Image Compression, Colorization published in reputed conferences CVPR, IEEE.

May 2019 - July 2019

Education

Harcourt Butler Technical University Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)
Information Technology

CGPA: 8.377 (FIRST DIVISION WITH HONOURS)

August 2017 - July 2021

St. Mary's Convent Inter College Lucknow

XII Senior Secondary (ISC Board)

Percentage- 88.5%

April 2015 - May 2016


St. Mary's Convent Inter College Lucknow

X Secondary (ICSE Board)

Percentage- 91.2%

April 2013 - May 2014

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • Core JAVA /J2EE
  • Spring Boot
  • Python
  • Azure Cosmos
  • Azure Databricks
  • Apache Airflow
  • JUnit
  • Mockito
  • OOP
Workflow
  • Object Oriented Design
  • Full Stack Web Development
  • Data Structures, Algorithms
  • Image Processing, Computer Visions, Data Visualization

Interests

Apart from my undergraduate coursework, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. I enjoy interacting with new people to know what's happening around the world. Also I like to read books.

When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows, I am an aspiring software engineer, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the world of computer science.


Achievements

  • Promoted within Walmart for exceptional performance. Transitioned from Software Engineer 2 to Software Engineer 3 due to demonstrated leadership and outstanding results.
  • Walmart Making a Difference Award (Q4 FY26): Exceptional business and team impact through initiatives beyond core responsibilities.
  • Walmart BRAVO Awards: Q3 FY26 – Engineering excellence and ownership; Q4 FY25 – Leadership and engineering excellence; Q2 FY24 – Launched upgraded version of APIs and drove innovation.
  • Received the RockStar Paytm award for outstanding contribution in the quarter Oct-Dec'21
  • Awarded with the SPOT award for outstanding performance during my internship at HackerEarth
  • 2nd Place - HBTU Kanpur - JAVA Quiz 2018 (organized by Decoder, HBTU Kanpur)
  • 1st Place - HBTU Kanpur - Break the Code 2018 (Coding Event)
  • Qualified UNIFIED CYBER OLYMPIAD - 2013 (1st Level)
  • Qualified NATIONAL LEVEL SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH EXAM - 2014 with an accreditation of VERY GOOD performance and secured ranks- State Rank-956 All India Rank-5778
  • Secured ranks - School Rank-8, International Rank-2567 in 9th SOF International Mathematics Olympiad held in 2015
  • CERTIFICATION- VEDIC OASIS FOR CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT & LEARNING issued in March 2018

Trainings Attended

Introduction to Core JAVA, Web and Android Studio

Participated in Two Weeks Summer Training Program on "Introduction to Core Java,Web and Android Studio" organized by Training and Placement Cell of HBTU KANPUR during July 09-21,2018 under TEQIP-III

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