About

Rakesh Kumar is an experienced Senior Engineering Manager II at Walmart Global Tech India with over 17 years of experience in leading and building enterprise and cloud products. He has a proven track record of delivering high-quality products and defining product strategy, roadmap, and driving the engineering team to success. Rakesh is skilled in Java, Agile, Unix, and Design Patterns, and has hands-on experience in designing, developing, and troubleshooting multi-threaded, distributed, scalable, high-performance, and highly available applications. Rakesh has expertise in various roles like Scrum Master, Architect, Product Manager, and People Manager. He has led Agile transformation in the team and is a strong advocate of agile methodologies. Rakesh is customer-focused, a strong decision-maker, influencer, assertive, and calculated risk-taker. He has a passion for people leadership and has experience in performance management for teams. He has led a large team of 17 engineers with inspiring communication, delegation, empowerment, and mentoring skills. Rakesh has been instrumental in building a culture of innovation and embracing new technologies. He facilitates brainstorming, knowledge sharing sessions, and innovation timeouts to promote a culture of innovation and creative problem-solving resulting in new ideas and a motivated team. He has also tracked metrics and KPIs to improve product quality and team productivity. Rakesh has a BE degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. He has worked with top companies like Walmart and CA Technologies. As part of the Leadership Development Program (LEAP), he took additional responsibility as Product Manager in Payment Security and improved the implementation validation process by introducing early review by services team and customer validation through validate.ca.com to reduce rework by the engineering team. He also incorporated Strategic Account Management processes for less engaged/unhappy customers to retain them and opportunity to up-sell other CA offerings. Rakesh improved NPS results by 25% by improving the process and created an action plan for different functions.