Summary
Ivan Glushchenko is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building large-scale, data-driven systems and now serves as Group Director of Engineering at Walmart Global Tech in New York. He has led 100+ engineer teams focused on pricing, cost, negotiation, and market intelligence, delivering an omni-channel platform that combines ML and rules-based algorithms to drive real-time pricing decisions. Prior to Walmart he scaled Jet’s catalog platform to handle hundreds of millions of products and billions of daily updates using an event-sourced mesh of idempotent microservices. With an MS in Mathematics from Saint Petersburg State University, Ivan blends deep technical rigor with product-focused execution, favoring pragmatic architectures that tolerate extreme scale. Colleagues describe him as someone who treats engineering as both craft and sport—building resilient systems while constantly seeking smarter, data-informed ways to ship.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS in Mathematics, MS in Mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University