About

Shiv Prakash is a highly skilled software engineer with over 13 years of relevant experience in the industry. He has a diverse range of technical expertise, including backend development, big data, data engineering, applied ML, machine learning platforms, data platforms, operational stores, analytical stores, schema registry, data governance, architecture councils, SaaS, PaaS, and cloud (GCP, Azure, Openstack). He has also worked on compliances such as SOX and CCPA. Shiv has functional expertise in supply chain and retail, including e-commerce, omni-channel, replenishment, demand forecasting, inbound inventory, sourcing, order management, outbound inventory, logistics, and returns systems. He has also worked on retail systems and store systems. He has experience in hiring and managing teams across geographies and agile program management. In his technical roles, Shiv has built solutions using SOA, micro-services, reactive services, and serverless architectures. He has worked with RDBMS, caching in-memory DB, NoSQL, HDFS, meta stores, object-stores, and polyglot persistence. He has built highly scalable, high throughput, low latency, real-time distributed systems that are highly resilient, auto-scalable, and highly observable micro-services with minimal maintenance overhead. Shiv has also worked on indexing, searching, messaging, caching, streaming, stream-processing, and ETL. Shiv has experience with both open source and proprietary packaged applications. He has built big data processing platforms and ML platforms. He has also worked with containers and container orchestrators using Docker and K8s for ML and micro-services. Shiv has led governance, catalog, quality, observability, compliances for data platforms and created multi-tenant SaaS and PaaS platforms. He has influenced tech direction, led modules, and led teams in key site-facing and revenue-impacting teams at Walmart. Shiv has mentored and created high-growth and innovation-leading teams. He has experience with continuous integration and continuous development strategy and integrated solutions with "1 click deployment" and "fingers to production." Shiv has architected, designed, and built various solutions for Tier-0 and Tier-2 E2E and worked on Walmart IP for multi-channel sourcing algorithm and capacity management as a service. Shiv's current areas of interest include decentralization, P2P technologies, ML/AI techniques in monuments restoration, NLP in Indic languages, blockchain, and Digital