Ajay Matai
Distinguished Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAjay Matai is a distinguished engineer with 13+ years of experience architecting cloud-native, high-throughput systems and leading geographically dispersed teams to deliver security and data-driven products. He has repeatedly moved complex services to AWS—cutting costs and improving scalability while meeting compliance like HIPAA and GDPR—and built event-driven platforms that process billions of events per day. At Netskope and WootCloud he fused user, application and device context to create comprehensive ZTNA solutions and launched integrations such as Netskope Cloud Exchange to accelerate AI and security workflows. Known as a caring, action-oriented leader, he combines hands-on engineering (from C and systems work at Nokia/Yahoo to modern microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes and CI/CD) with strong operational discipline that achieved SOC2 and major cost reductions. Now at Walmart Global Tech, he’s helping bring AI agents into partner workflows, reflecting a continued focus on applying scalable architecture to emerging AI use cases. An early hacker-turned-architect, he balances deep technical curiosity with practical delivery and team mentorship.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Chemical Engineering, B.Tech Chemical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, TiruchirappalliM.S. Computer Science & Math, M.S. Computer Science & Math at Ohio University
Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (74)
unit-testing10
gevent9
python9
backend9
email-address9
mime8
encryption8
device-discovery8
cryptography8
openssl8
parsing8
ssl8
decryption8
benchmarking8
performance-testing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amatai/mailgun-experiment
Sep 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
amatai/amatai.github.io
Oct 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:28 PRs, 40 pushes, 33 branches in 5 years 11 months
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