Pavan Kumar Achuthan

About Pavan Kumar Achuthan

Engineering Technology Leader with 23+ years of Extensive Experience in Design, Development, Build, Deploy, Operate and Monitor software solutions and leading talented teams across Geographical locations which delivers value, Fix organizational Silos, engineering excellence, operational excellence’s delivering large, scalable and complex applications on web, mobile and social platforms spanningacross multiple domains like eCommerce, Product Engineering organizations with roles fromTechnology Engineering Management, Developer Productivity Tools, Platform Engineering, Performance Engineering,Automation & Quality Engineering, Delivery Management, Release Management, Product Engineering SolutionsA hands-on technology leader with Passion for technology innovation, building high performance teamswith focus on delivering technology solutions to meet business needs with experience on driving andscaling tools and infrastructure practices across global engineering organization to improve engineeringproductivity and site reliabilityStrategic business partner skilled with both technical and business acumen, successful at buildingrelationships and influencing leadership to deliver outstanding customer experience along withEngineering excellence with Specialties in Building scalable Tools for Engineer Developer productivity,Portal development, Frontend frameworks, people management, mentoring, agile development,offshore deliveryExtensive Technology and Full Stack Engineering Management experience in leadership roles, leading large cross functional teams across domains Retail, Banking, Financial Systems & Education Handled Stakeholder Relationships, responsible for end-end alliance management for Engineering Specialties : SaaS based solution for Microservices with extensive experience on WebApp, Mobile, Cloud Engineering and Enterprise Software Development Domain Areas: Retail, Financial, Banking, Fin-tech, Education, Security and Enterprise Products Functional Areas: Product Development, Platform Engineering, Test Automation, Install/Deployment Technical Skills: Java, Node JS, React JS Cloud Technologies: Azure, Open stack Product mindset with Ideas from Inception, Discovery, Design, Implementation and Warranty Engineering Vision to build next generation tools, framework & utilities Proficient in Agile Methodologies Developer productivity : Internal tooling and Infrastructure development AI Solution : Proficient in bringing AI components RAG, LLM, MCP, Agentic system, Skills, Plug Ins

Experience

1. Senior Director of Software Engineering

   Walmart Global Tech

   Oct 2010 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

   Responsible & Lead the transforming of AI Platform Core Products across Walmart Global Technology Platform Group includes GenAI, Cloud Engineering, Platform engineering, developer productivity# Key contributor to engineering management and technical community across developer acceleration groups across applications built & hosted on Public & Private cloud providers# Design / Build for scale all service oriented architecture platform services and also toolsets which supports this echo system # Lead and grow a team of empathetic engineers who has passion to make others productive# Manage, Build & Lead Technology Engineering Team for Platform Developer Tools Engineering group # Strong contributor to Roadmap, budget reviews, AOP inputs, Hiring and Value add decisions# Strong Focus on Engineering Excellence and Operational Metrics # Experience in building teams strong technical teams both in US, UK & India location# Flawless Execution with proven record for on time delivery with consistency on high quality in building Developer Productivity Tools, Utilities & Frameworks which helps Engineers Productivity on day to day activities#Designed many Frameworks which helps developers & quality engineers during the agile development process for weekly deployments to production along with enabling a defined maturity model towards Test driven development to integrate in a CI/CD mode#Active Participant in all Hackathons to present Innovative or Creative Ideas #Innovation ideas and solutions implemented are well received across different business unitsKnown for Strong Execution skills, Agility & Speed of Delivery for the fitment of the product aligning business value# Product Operations : Established Software Release guidelines and Agile (Scrum and Kanban) best practices for the Retail products, to allow each team to Release every Sprint

Education

• Wardlaw High School

  Secondary School Leaving Certificate - SSLC, SSLC

  1990 — 1993

• Vijayanagar Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

  1995 — 1999

• Wardlaw Junior College

  Pre University College - PUC, Science (PCMB)

  1993 — 1995

• Bala Bharathi School

  Primary Education

  1983 — 1990

Skills

• Unix
• Business Analysis
• Pl/Sql
• Java
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Quality Assurance
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Agile Project Management
• Test Cases
• Software Project Management
• Xml
• System Testing
• Web Applications
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Leadership
• Qtp
• Test Management
• Integration
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• .net
• Testing
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Etl
• Soa
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Web Services