Vaikunth Sridharan
Principal Software Engineer at Walmart
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolVaikunth Sridharan is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering mission-critical distributed systems for commerce, currently based in Sunnyvale and leading platform work at Walmart. He has progressed through technical roles at Walmart from software engineer to principal, driving scalable backend architectures and cross-region reliability for high-throughput retail services. His background blends applied research from a master's in computer science with hands-on product development across healthcare and enterprise domains, giving him a pragmatic, data-informed approach to engineering trade-offs. Known for turning complex requirements into operational systems, he pairs deep technical ownership with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration. An engineer comfortable in both research and production environments, he brings a history of rapid impact in large organizations and an eye for incremental resilience improvements that reduce customer-visible risk.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Wright State UniversityBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
async-await10
pooling10
asynchronous10
server10
async9
proxies9
protobuf9
database9
rust9
microservices9
connection-pool9
graphql9
java9
serialization9
grpc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vaikzs/distributed-computing-hadoop
Aug 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 years 11 months
vaikzs/vaikzs.github.io
Oct 2016 - Mar 2026
Contributions:90 pushes in 9 years 6 months
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