About

Ritesh Rai is a highly skilled Senior Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience in building, leading and managing multiple full-stack development teams. He has extensive experience in developing and architecting both micro-service and monolithic-based software applications on On-premise and cloud infrastructure (AWS, AZURE, GCP). Ritesh has managed and done development with teams that work on Cloud-native Microservices utilizing Spring Boot, Spring MVC, REST using Test Driven Development. Ritesh is a strong leader who can lead end-to-end execution of projects and ship application releases promptly, keeping teams focused on well-defined sprint priorities. He builds, manages, and grows strong engineering teams focused on delivering results and engineering excellence across the engineering lifecycle - design, build, test, release, and operate, i.e., a full ownership model. He maintains and improves the team’s operating metrics, ensuring the reliability and security of the services he delivers. Ritesh has deep End-to-End Enterprise Architecture understanding, UI and Front-End technologies, Middleware technologies, Databases (SQL & No SQL). He is an effective communicator adept at collaborating, influencing cross-functional teams across geographies. He has experience in Road Map development for software cycle execution, Release Management, and deployment management. Ritesh has technical experience in Java/J2EE, Pega PRPC, Python, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Netflix OSS, REST APIs, Kibana, Splunk, Jenkins, AppDynamics, PagerDuty, Elasticsearch, Microservice Architecture, Platform Engineering, Agile (Scrum and Kanban), System integration (Majorly Java and Pega application integrations), BPMN tools, Oracle, DB2, NoSQL, Apache Kafka, JIRA Software, Cloud-Native Architecture, High scale distributed systems, Messaging Brokers, Real-time stream processing, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning using Python, Optical Character Recognition - Python, DevOps. Ritesh is currently working as a Senior Engineering Manager at Walmart. He has previously worked as a Development Manager and Associate Architect at Pegasystems. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science from Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University. Ritesh is a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Spring, Java, SQL, AWS, Microservices, Spring Boot, test, Kafka, Python, Integration, Kubernetes, Docker, Elastic Search, Frontend, Web, Javascript, ML