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Chandrakanth Thadkapally
Curriculum vitae

Chandrakanth Thadkapally

Senior Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech · Bentonville, Arkansas. Engineering across retail commerce, payments and financial operations, healthcare staffing, HCM and telecom. Roles below are described by scope and scale — no employer internals appear here.

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Experience
  1. Nov 2025 — Present
    9 mo

    Walmart Global Tech

    1. Senior Software Engineer
      Nov 2025 — Present · Bentonville, Arkansas

    Payment reconciliation and retail correction systems at retail scale — event-driven services, financial data pipelines, and the analytics surface finance uses to confirm that transactions are accurate.

    • Design event-driven services on Kafka, Java and Spring Boot supporting large-scale payment reconciliation and retail correction.
    • Build financial data pipelines across Google BigQuery and SQL Server.
    • Develop backend services in .NET along the reconciliation path.
    • Deliver analytics through Power BI so transaction accuracy and compliance are observable rather than asserted.
  2. Sep 2020 — Nov 2025
    5 yr 2 mo

    Nebraska Furniture Mart

    1. Senior Technical Lead
      Mar 2024 — Nov 2025 · Missouri
    2. Senior Programmer Analyst
      Sep 2021 — Mar 2024 · Omaha, Nebraska
    3. Application Developer
      Sep 2020 — Sep 2021 · Omaha, Nebraska

    Five years across the commerce platform, from application development through technical leadership — architecture, cloud migration, and the delivery practice around a multi-team engineering organisation.

    • Led the decomposition of a monolithic commerce platform into a service-oriented architecture on .NET Core and Azure.
    • Centralised configuration and secret management across cloud environments, tightening access control and removing drift between environments.
    • Designed continuous delivery pipelines for Kubernetes-based infrastructure, materially shortening deployment lead time.
    • Set the code review and mentoring practice as technical lead; responsible for technical direction, design review and engineer development.
  3. Oct 2018 — Sep 2020
    1 yr 11 mo

    AMN Healthcare

    1. Application Developer
      Oct 2018 — Sep 2020 · Omaha, Nebraska

    Application development for healthcare staffing and vendor management workflows.

    • Rebuilt core vendor-management workflows on .NET Core with a React and Redux front end.
    • Implemented OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect authentication, consolidating access management across the platform.
    • Introduced automated build and release pipelines, removing manual steps from the deployment path.
  4. Feb 2018 — Sep 2018
    7 mo

    Ultimate Software

    1. Software Developer
      Feb 2018 — Sep 2018 · Weston, Florida

    Microservice development within a cloud human capital management product spanning HR, compensation, talent, payroll and time-and-labour management.

    • Developed microservices in .NET for a large multi-tenant HCM platform.
    • Worked across the HR, payroll and time-and-labour product surfaces.
  5. Nov 2017 — Feb 2018
    3 mo

    Level 3 Communications

    1. Software Developer
      Nov 2017 — Feb 2018 · Denver, Colorado

    Customer-facing provisioning tools for high-speed broadband networking plans.

    • Built a product wizard surfacing plans and quotes matched to customer preferences.
    • Developed the web application and supporting services on Angular and .NET Core Web API.
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Education
  1. 2015 — 2017

    M.S., Computer Science

    University of Central Missouri

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Areas of depth

Agentic AI & LLM systems

  • Agent harness design — tool surfaces, context assembly, control loops
  • Autonomous coding systems and multi-step agent orchestration (LangGraph)
  • Evaluation where ground truth is contested or absent

Distributed & event-driven systems

  • Service decomposition and platform migration
  • Event-driven architecture on Kafka; Spring Boot and .NET services
  • Kubernetes-based delivery, CI/CD, environment parity

Data & analytics platforms

  • Financial data pipelines across BigQuery and SQL Server
  • Reconciliation and correction systems at retail scale
  • Analytics surfaces that make correctness observable (Power BI)

Languages & platforms

  • Java, C#/.NET, TypeScript, Python, SQL
  • Spring Boot, React, Angular, Entity Framework
  • Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
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Speaking, service and recognition
These sections exist because they will be filled. An empty section stated honestly is worth more than an inflated one.

Speaking

No talks delivered yet. Conference submissions are planned for the coming cycle.

Peer review & service

No review assignments logged yet. Every assignment will be listed with venue, year and number of submissions handled.

Recognition

Nothing to list.

A fuller account of the research behind these roles is on the research programme page, and the narrative version is on about.