Summary
Vishal Rathi is a Staff Software Engineer based in the New York City area with a decade of experience building high-performance, scalable backend systems for large enterprises, currently at Walmart Global Tech. He brings deep domain experience in real-time financial data and e-commerce search, having implemented low-latency C++ systems at FactSet and driven search platform improvements across walmart.com. Vishal combines strong analytical problem-solving with a track record of progressing through engineering tiers to technical leadership, mentoring teams while shipping reliable systems at scale. His academic background in CS and ECE and early research in mobile sensing and machine learning reflect a pragmatic blend of theoretical grounding and hands-on experimentation. Notably, he has experience optimizing parallel and cloud workloads from internships at MathWorks and practical exposure to full-stack tooling from earlier roles, making him comfortable across systems, performance, and data-driven product decisions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering and Software Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, Urdu, Sindhi, Hindi, dhatki