Mladena Novakovic
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
- Role
- Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Walmart Global Tech
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mladena Novakovic
Experienced leader of first-class engineering teams, with strong product sense and proven track record of consistent and frequent delivery of quality software across the stack. Developed multiple products from idea to production 0->1.Focus Areas:• Partner closely with product and engineering counterparts to define strategy, negotiate priorities, and cultivate culture of collaboration• Implement effective engineering processes and practices• Ensure engineering teams have clear goals, priorities & building right technical foundations• Define engineering culture that’s agile, driven, customer-focused, diverse, and inclusive• Hire, coach, mentor, and advocate for engineering managers and engineers• Extensive experience working on user-facing products, strong product intuition and domain knowledge in e-commerce and transportation
Experience
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Jul 2018 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Jet.com / Parcel: Last-mile same-day delivery logistics infrastructure for local e-commerce in metro areas. Jet.com was acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion, the largest-ever purchase of a U.S. e- commerce startup. Maintaining startup agility post acquisition, scaling up eCommerce volume, accelerating on-time delivery above 98% target while improving grocery and general merchandise delivery experience. Python, Azure SQL, Redis, Docker, Azure cloud.JoyRun: Food ordering and delivery platform creates group ordering behavior and uses the power of community to optimize food delivery in high density ecosystems, reducing delivery cost by waking up latent demand and creating social/group buying behavior. Entryway to grow overall Walmart Tech monetization service offerings and discovering new use cases. Pivoting towards Local Marketplace & Local Fulfillment across seller segments. Java, JavaScript, React, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure cloud.Walmart eCommerce Transportation: Aggregating shipments from multiple fulfillment centers, package containerization, dispatch, and delivery optimization micro-services handling over 30% of Walmart eCommerce volume. Stood-up operations in 6 state-of-the-art industrial facilities across the country, running highly scalable low-latency solutions. Java, JavaScript, React, Cosmos DB, Kafka, Azure cloud.Supply Chain Optimization Technologies: Supply Chain challenges, at Walmart scale. Last-Mile Logistics, intelligent order density and delivery route optimization. Horizontally scalable solution for continuously evolving business domain & high-growth e-commerce. Java, Cosmos DB, private and public cloud.
Education
Mathematical Grammar School, Belgrade
High School, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science
1984 — 1985
University of Belgrade
Master's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering
1985 — 1990
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