# Karteek Pittala > Senior Software Engineer at Wayfair Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/karteek Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in advancing innovative technological solutions directed towards building efficient and decoupled service-oriented software architectures at scale. Technically proficient with a proven record of accomplishment in handling multiple projects in parallel and consistently meeting deadlines in a high-pressure environment. Confident communicator and a strategic thinker with an outstanding ability to translate business requirements to meaningful and achievable software solutions. Strong problem-solving skills, result-oriented, and attentive to details ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Wayfair Jan 2021 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • I'm a member of the Wayfair Search and Recommendations Platform & Services team, which enables Wayfair customers to discover the furniture and decor items they desire. • Created a graph execution SDK and service template to streamline the migration of a monolithic recommendation service to a decoupled tiered-microservice architecture, allowing over 8 atomic teams to autonomously deploy their individual Spring Boot services. • Additionally, implemented features in the SDK to empower service owners to track metrics such as time taken for graph execution, errors, and publish scribe logs to Google Big Query (GBQ) tables for analytics and future ML model training. • Within the service template, I standardized the configuration of CI/CD pipelines and Wayfair ecosystem-required setup features. This initiative resulted in time savings and expediting the availability of new services. ### Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead @ Wayfair Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Led the development of a new tax engine system for computing taxes on Wayfair orders across North America and Europe. This system delivered a substantial 30% improvement in the accuracy of order tax calculations and resulted in a monthly reduction of approximately one million dollars in audit tax exposure for customer orders. • I led a team of five engineers dedicated to building systems for Wayfair's evolving financial challenges. My responsibilities included collaborating with cross-functional teams, shaping project requirements and roadmaps, and providing mentorship to team members. ### Software Engineer II @ Wayfair Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Implemented a full stack React/PHP vendor platform tool at Wayfair, featuring a backend vendor API to streamline financial operations for vendors, including payment processing, tax form generation, and payment reconciliation. This tool significantly reduced the onboarding time for new vendor types and their operations from over 10+ days to just 1-2 days. • Designed and developed an event-streaming platform using Apache Kafka, resulting in substantial improvements in processing large financial batch files, reducing wait times by several hours, and cutting down the engineering efforts required to support new finance file types from 5+ days to 2 days. ### Software Engineer I @ Wayfair Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Designed & developed full-stack applications and pipeline batch-processing jobs using Jenkins for finance needs working extensively large and complex SQL finance databases. ### Software Engineer co-op @ DataXu Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Boston Area • Created and implemented a web-based solution to enhance the management and cost optimization of AWS resources, including EC2 servers and key pairs, for team members. ### Associate Instructor @ Indiana University Bloomington Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Bloomington • Conducted labs and assisted students with relevant course materials in the following topics • Python and Java, Unix environment, Apache, JavaScript and web development, MySql. • Helped students with any queries and performed course assignment gradings. ### Programmer @ Indiana University Bloomington Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 • Assisted with the preparation of training materials for the Big Data Software Project course. • Developed basic (beginner courses) demos and tutorials for Apache Big Data Stack and Amazon Web Services(AWS). ### Software Engineer @ Infosys Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 • Developed VB scripts that reduced manual efforts for integration and regression testing efforts during version releases. ## Education ### Master's Degree in Computer Science Indiana University Bloomington Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering Don Bosco Institute of Technology (D.B.I.T) Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karteekpittala --- Source: https://flows.cv/karteek JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/karteek/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22