Juhi Nayak

About Juhi Nayak

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems for large, high-traffic platforms. Currently, I work at Walmart, where I design and lead enterprise-grade services in the e-commerce catalog domain, focusing on reliability, scalability, and data-driven workflows.In my current role, I have led end-to-end projects involving system design, API architecture, and event-driven pipelines using Java, Kafka, Cassandra, and Kubernetes. I graduated with a Master of Science in Software Engineering from San Jose State University in May 2021 with a GPA of 3.6. I am proficient in Python, JavaScript, C#, Kotlin, SQL, NoSQL, and other similar software engineering skills. Experienced in using various AWS and Google cloud services. I value clean system design, thoughtful trade-offs, and building software that is easy to operate and evolve. I enjoy taking ownership of complex problems, mentoring teammates, and collaborating across teams to deliver reliable solutionsI like to travel, hike, and explore diverse cultures with regional food. This helps me to become flexible and adaptive to different situations and learn from nature. For positivity, I try to be fit so I do yoga, play table tennis, and basketball. I have been a winner in these sports in various categories in my previous workplace. I also have an interest in organizing various activities from small to large scale, such as various cultural and technical events, marathons, award ceremonies, and team-building activities within a group.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Walmart Global Tech

   Mar 2024 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

   Leading backend initiatives within Walmart’s Enterprise Catalog platform, with ownership of multiple high-impact projects. • Responsible for the design and delivery of the Defect Platform, an enterprise system used to detect and process defects in seller-submitted catalog content at scale.• Owned end-to-end engineering, including system design and API architecture, and introduced new processing flows through backward-compatible enhancements to existing core services. • Built event-driven integrations using Kafka, publishing defect events for downstream Data Science model analysis and consuming model outputs to update catalog source services with strong reliability and data consistency guarantees.• In parallel, led the Catalog Source Archival initiative, a data-purge pipeline for retired catalog sources. • Designed solutions to ensure idempotency and data integrity across multiple dependent services.• Implemented workflows to consolidate affected entity IDs and create reliable backups, and developed purge APIs and audit mechanisms to safely remove data while maintaining full traceability and compliance.

Education

• San José State University

  Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering

  2019 — 2021

• Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Programming
• Html
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Microsoft Word
• C++
• Oracle Database
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office