Software Development Engineer · Walmart Global Tech Dallas–Fort Worth, TX

Hemanth Janapala

I build event-driven microservices and high-throughput data pipelines on Azure. My focus is systems that process millions of records a day, recover cleanly from failure, and never process the same event twice.

promo-reference-data · batch run runtime 5–6 min → <3 min
Blob Storageraw drops
Data Factoryorchestrate
Event Hubstream
Batch ServiceSpring Boot, idempotent
SQL DBstate + delivery

Selected work

Systems I've designed and shipped

<3 min
batch runtime, down from 5–6 min, with Databricks costs eliminated

Reference-data pipeline migration

I led the end-to-end migration of a core promotion-targeting pipeline from legacy Table Storage and Databricks to an event-driven SQL architecture that processes millions of records daily.

  • Built a Spring Boot batching engine with idempotency, retries and fault-tolerant ingestion.
  • Tuned indexes, queries and JDBC batching to hold throughput across millions of records per run.
  • Reached 99.9%+ delivery to downstream systems, reprocessing unacknowledged events within a 5-minute SLA.
  • Spring Boot
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Event Hub
  • SQL Server
  • JDBC
Exactly-once
audit event processing, with sub-second UI reads

Promotion audit service

I led the design and delivery of an internal audit service with a dual-store persistence layer: Cosmos DB for structured audit records and OpenSearch for fast label retrieval.

  • Implemented idempotent event handling with dead-letter queues so no audit record is ever duplicated.
  • Designed OpenSearch index mappings and query optimizations for high-throughput lookups.
  • Set up Azure Monitor and Application Insights alerts on consumption rate, latency and write throughput.
  • Cosmos DB
  • OpenSearch
  • DLQ
  • Application Insights
2 services
moved to auto-rotated workload identity

Platform security hardening

I replaced static, manually rotated credentials with Azure AD workload identity, and found and redesigned a vulnerable header-based service-to-service auth scheme using token-based verification.

  • Azure AD Workload Identity
  • OAuth2
  • JWT
LLM agent
natural-language queries over promotion and audit data

Conversational data agent

I contributed to an LLM-based agent built with LangGraph and Azure OpenAI that lets teams ask questions about promotion and audit data in plain language and validate the answers.

  • LangGraph
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Python

Experience

Where I've worked

  1. Jun 2025 – Present

    Software Development Engineer

    Walmart Global Tech · USA

    Audit and data-pipeline systems for promotions. I lead design reviews, set team coding standards, own on-call, and led the platform's expansion into a second country and a third-party pricing-tool integration.

  2. Jan 2025 – May 2025

    Software Engineer

    Neotechsoft · Remote

    Spring Boot REST APIs and microservices with JWT/OAuth2, PostgreSQL and MySQL schema design, and JUnit/Mockito test coverage.

  3. Jul 2024 – Oct 2024

    Software Developer

    KPMG · Montvale, NJ

    Microservices for enterprise financial platforms. Raised transaction-pipeline throughput by about 30% with parallel processing and partition tuning, deployed on Docker and Kubernetes.

  4. Mar 2021 – Nov 2022

    Software Engineer

    Ernst & Young (EY) · India

    Java backend services for fintech and enterprise apps, Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and performance fixes that improved reliability and cut downtime.

Stack

Tools I work with

Languages

Java, Python, SQL, JavaScript, C/C++

Frameworks

Spring Boot, Spring MVC, FastAPI

Data stores

Cosmos DB, OpenSearch, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB

Streaming

Kafka, Azure Event Hub

Cloud & DevOps

Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD

AI & agents

LangGraph, LangChain, Azure OpenAI

Jan 2023 – Dec 2024

M.S. Computer Science

University of North Texas · Denton, TX

2017 – 2021

B.Tech. Computer Science

VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology · Hyderabad

Contact

Let's talk

I'm interested in backend and cloud-platform roles working on distributed systems and data infrastructure. Email is the best way to reach me.

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