Gaurav Kukal

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Principal Software Engineer/Architect at Walmart Labs Data Platform Sunnyvale

Technology / Software / Internet

A technology leader with more than 14 years of vast experience in e-commerce, big data, java, j2ee, sql and nosql database,search index,web services and UED applications. Managed and lead a team of 7-10 very smart developers and QA with whose help developed highly scalable large data pipelines to power commerce web services and UI. In my latest stint I was involved in completely turning around the nose diving business metrics of competitor pricing platform @ebay by using my vast design and data analysis skills to improve scalability,reliability and freshness of data. Improved the business metrics by 10x and these data platforms now power half a billion calls a day on View Item Pages an...