Summary
Jay Sivaraman is a Principal Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building resilient, compliant cloud systems and leading cross-functional technical programs. He has a strong track record at Walmart Global Tech driving the HIPAA Cloud strategy—authoring a practical "HIPAA Cloud Manual," expanding platforms, and enabling rapid store-wide deployments during COVID-19. Jay blends systems-level architecture (Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, multi-cloud failover) with pragmatic cost and operational wins, including dramatic Linux migrations that cut costs and rollout time. He also founded internal learning initiatives like the "Raise The Bar" tech talks and has led observability and logging efforts that bridge security, mobile, and legacy services. Comfortable both founding startups and operating in large enterprises, he pairs hands-on engineering with clear playbooks for replatforming and compliance. A detail-oriented problem-solver, he’s driven measurable impact across cloud migrations, observability, and developer enablement.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at University of Maryland