# Ankur Palav

> Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ankurpalav

Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience in back-end development. Over the years I have worked on several projects across multiple organizations that have helped me to hone both my technical & communication skills.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2017 – Present | Sunnyvale, California
- End-to-end owner ship of multiple batch and real-time data pipelines to enrich user experience.
- Built a centralized data ingestion platform supporting multiple source and sink options.
- Worked on migrating multiple pipelines from CPU to GPU Nvidia based clusters leading to both cost and SLA savings.
- Development & maintenance of pipelines that drive PUSH notifications.
- Worked on platform level features like CI-CD, ephemeral cluster setup, etc.
- Drive daily Scrum meetings.

### Software Developer Internship @ frenzy.me
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Los Angeles Area
-Fashion content aggregator website where users can read and shop fashion articles from leading blogs and magazines.
-AI-powered solution that connects product URLs to media (images/videos) across the web. 
-Reduced browsing time for publisher/customer by bringing everything together & providing the ability to shop similar products without navigating to a different site.
-Improved the UI/UX by using technologies like Angular.js for front-end & PHP Code Igniter for the back -end.

### Software Developer Summer Intern @ DromeBox Labs / ModCon IP LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Los Angeles Area
-Designed the DNFSPT (Document Naming & File System Protocol Tool) for object insertion, modification & deletion.
-Developed the Backend using MongoDb & integrated the front end with the database using PyMongo. 
-Improved application usability & structure which resulted in increase in productivity for the users.
-Technologies used: python 2, PyQt, Mongo Db, utilities like PyMongo & NumPy.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Accenture in India
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mumbai Area, India
-Developed Business Process Work Flow Models for the application.
-Developed back-end logic for the controllers in Java.
-Designed front-end features using html/css, javascript, jquery, ajax etc.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology
University of Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ankur-palav-b7b380110
- Portfolio: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~palav/mywebsite/main.html

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Last updated: 2026-04-12