Summary
Hitansu Jena is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale backend and e-commerce systems, currently leading pricing platform efforts at Walmart Global Tech from Bengaluru. He brings deep Java expertise, a strong background in distributed systems and real-time data pipelines (Spark, AWS Kinesis/Lambda), and hands-on experience shipping Android platform and app features earlier in his career. Hitansu has driven reliability and scale across roles at Amazon, Pegasystems, ThoughtWorks and Samsung, including national-scale health record systems and accessibility-focused mobile prototypes. He enjoys tackling multithreading and data-structure problems and pairs that problem-solving passion with practical engineering to optimize performance and fault tolerance. Notably, his work spans both consumer-facing mobile customization and backend infrastructure, showing an uncommon blend of low-level Android framework experience and cloud-scale data engineering. He aims to apply technology to bridge rural communities into mainstream services, reflecting a long-term social impact focus.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BTECH Computer Science, BTECH Computer Science at Odisha University of Technology and Research
Higher Secondary CertificateOdisha(HSC) (Std-10) Mathematics, Higher Secondary CertificateOdisha(HSC) (Std-10) Mathematics at Agarwalla Bidyapitha
Council of Higher Secondary Education Odisha (equivalent to Std-11 & Std-12) Mathematics Physics Chemistry, Council of Higher Secondary Education Odisha (equivalent to Std-11 & Std-12) Mathematics Physics Chemistry at Fakir Mohan Junior College Balasore
English, Odia, Hindi