About

Lokesh Shrivastava is a highly skilled Distinguished Engineer at Walmart Labs India with over 21 years of relevant experience. He is a hands-on architect with deep expertise in building internet-scale systems from scratch. Lokesh is well-versed in public cloud, cloud-native systems, and cloud migration strategy, specifically in AWS and Azure. He is also proficient in Java technologies such as JDK8, Spring, JPA, Hibernate, Resilient4J, and Reactor Framework. Moreover, he has extensive knowledge in databases like Cassandra, Azure Cosmos NoSQL DB, AWS Keyspaces, and AWS Aurora. Lokesh is an expert in multiple security specifications such as OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML2.0, XACML2.0, JWT, JWS, and JWE, among others. He also has a strong grasp of data structures and algorithms. Lokesh has an all-around expertise in product development, including product management, architecture, Dev & Test/DevOps, sustaining, and customer success. He is passionate about grooming junior engineers in the organization. Currently, Lokesh is a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware. In his previous role as a Distinguished Engineer at Walmart, he migrated millions of Walmart users' identities from on-prem Oracle DB to Azure Cosmos NoSQL DB. He also built Walmart's authorization policy engine and enterprise policy store for Walmart store applications. Lokesh was the architect for Walmart Telemetry foundation and incorporated Open Telemetry stack into services. He utilized technologies such as Azure Cosmos DB, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, Splunk, Service mesh, Kafka, Fluentbit, Kubernetes, and XACML 2.0. Prior to joining Walmart, Lokesh was a Principal Engineer at RSA Security, where he implemented SAML 2.0-based RSA SSO and authentication technologies embedded in VMware vSphere products. He also built application server agents for Weblogic and Tomcat to enforce authorization policies and utilized RSA Access Manager for federated identity management. Lokesh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology and an Executive Post Graduate Programme in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. He is skilled in AWS, Azure, NoSQL, test, product manager, Java, Cassandra, Spring, DevOps, Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes, and Kafka. Lokesh's impressive skill set and vast experience make him a valuable asset to any organization.