Work with me
Senior backend engineer at Walmart Global Tech: distributed systems, database internals, and AI infrastructure. Open to senior backend and AI-infrastructure roles: Bengaluru, hybrid, or remote.
I build the systems this site writes about. The engineering logs are the thinking; this page is the track record. Everything below is verifiable: the numbers are from systems I ran, and the recognition is 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. Reach out with what you are working on.
Recognition
- 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.
- Claude Code In Action · Anthropic, 2026
- Introduction to Generative AI · Coursera, 2023
The fastest way to start is email: hello@ankit-rana.com. If mail is not your thing, message me on LinkedIn. I reply to everything that is not spam.