Vidyashree Muralidhara

About Vidyashree Muralidhara

I am an Engineering Manager with 14+ years of experience building scalable technology platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams across multiple domains, including e-commerce, retail tech, analytics, fintech, legal tech, and regulatory compliance.My leadership philosophy is rooted in clarity, trust, ownership, and growth. I believe that the strength of a product mirrors the strength of the team behind it — and that people thrive when expectations are clear, voices are respected, and contributions are meaningful.At Walmart Global Tech, I’ve led marketplace programs such as Seller Tiering and Offer Listing Quality, improving platform trust and customer experience while driving measurable business outcomes including a 23% uplift in GMV, 1.7× conversion improvement, and recurring cloud savings of $194K. I enjoy building teams that feel supported yet challenged — where engineers develop not just technical maturity, but confidence, curiosity, communication, responsibility, and decision-making skills.Across my career, I’ve worked in environments requiring:Cross-functional collaboration with product, design, compliance, data, and business teamsExecution through ambiguity and scaleInfluence without authority and empathetic leadershipI thrive where there is complexity, scale, and room to shape both the technology and the people experience behind it.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Walmart Global Tech

   Sep 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading engineering teams delivering high-scale marketplace solutions like Seller Tiering and OLQ, driving platform trust, accountability, and customer experience improvements.Seller Tiering – Designed and led high visibility marketplace Seller Tiering program to categorize sellers into multiple categories based on performance, compliance, and satisfaction metrics; integrated with 12+ dependent systems for real-time tracking and reporting. This system is responsible for allotting Pro Seller badge on any given product on Walmart website. This improved seller accountability and marketplace performance resulting in 23% GMV uplift, 1.7x higher customer conversion. Additionally since inception 19K sellers improved Content Quality, 12K sellers improved delivery SLAs and 9K sellers optimized pricing.Offer Listing Quality (OLQ) – Led enhancements to Walmart’s OLQ platform, which evaluates product listings across content completeness, pricing, availability, and compliance and processes 700 Million+ offers daily. Improved system usability, intelligence, and automated recommendations, increasing the Adjusted System Usability Score (ASUS) from 66 to 75, enabling sellers to take targeted corrective actions and improving conversion and listing quality at scale.Led team to implement HTT(Head, Torso, Tail) model in OLQ, optimizing storage and compute usage, resulting in annual savings of global team of engineers with a focus on clarity, psychological safety, mentoring, skill growth, and shared ownership.Implemented frameworks and automation that improved data workflows and engineering productivity, and product decisioning.Strengthened architecture, engineering standards, and operational processes to support long-term platform integrity and scalable growth.Collaborated closely with product and cross-functional leaders to align priorities and deliver high-impact results. Led the design and development efforts for building several reusable UI components

Education

• Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science/Studies

  2007 — 2011