Work with me
Walmart Global Tech. Open to senior backend and AI-infrastructure roles: Bengaluru, hybrid, or remote.
This page is the hiring surface: quantified outcomes, how we can work together, and how to reach me. The engineering logs are the thinking; the About page is the biography. Everything below is verifiable from systems I ran or recognition my employer issued.
Impact, quantified
- ~4 TB zero-downtime migration
Customer-facing Cosmos DB container moved live with a rollback plan: 2X cloud cost reduction, 10X scalability gain.
- 45+ services under Kafka DR
Disaster recovery planned and executed across the e-commerce estate.
- Millions of users on multi-tenant frameworks
Backend architecture that let new markets launch on shared, reliable infrastructure.
- 0 incidents after a full system cutover
Grocery banner moved to a modern inventory system with better response time and availability. Recognized with a Walmart Team Award.
Ways to work together
Full-time roles
Senior backend or AI-infrastructure positions where reliability, cost, and scale are the problem. Strongest in Java and cloud-native distributed systems, with production experience running LLM agents and MCP tooling inside an enterprise.
Advisory and mentorship
Focused sessions on system design, database performance, and getting AI agents into production without breaking the systems around them.
Sponsorship and collaboration
For developer-tool and infrastructure companies: sponsored deep dives, workshops, and talks, written the way everything here is written. Placement is disclosed and opinions are never for sale. The media kit has audience, formats, and editorial policy.
Recognition
Employer awards
- Team Award · Walmart Global Tech, 2023
Zero-incident cutover of the grocery banner to a modern inventory management system, with measurably better response time and availability than the legacy system.
- Excellence Award · Walmart Global Tech, 2023
Established an advanced inventory management system in an existing market: discovery, solution design, and standing up and onboarding a new team.
Certifications
- Claude Code In Action · Anthropic, 2026
- Introduction to Generative AI · Coursera, 2023
How to reach out
Fastest path: hello@ankit-rana.com. Prefer social? LinkedIn. Need a one-pager for your ATS? Download the resume (PDF).
A useful first note usually covers:
- The role or problem, and why it is interesting now
- Constraints that matter: latency, cost, scale, or team stage
- Timeline, and whether email or a short call is better next