# Manikanta Kumar Chekuri

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/manikanta

-	MIS master's graduate with several years of experience in full stack development in an Agile environment. 
-	Experienced in analyzing, designing, developing, testing, and debugging software solutions using principles of responsive web design.
-	Experienced in providing data driven insights using statistical and analytical models and visualizations.
-	AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer Associate, Oracle certified Java SE 8 programmer, Dell EMC certified Big Data Analytics associate.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2023 – Present | Dallas, Texas, United States

### Software Engineer @ Itential
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
(Tech Stack: React, Cypress, Tailwind, JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Docker, Jinja, TextFSM, Ansible)
- Contributed to the development of the automation tool using React, focusing on the functionalities of workflows and JSTs(JSON Schema Transformations) that are key parts of the tool and adapters that connect to several external systems seamlessly.
- Collaborated with a cross-functional team to deliver high-quality code on schedule.
- Participated in regular code reviews assigned as JIRA tickets, providing constructive feedback that enhanced code quality
and team collaboration.
- Implemented automated testing procedures in Git pipeline using internal Cypress testing library, reducing manual testing
efforts of the prebuilt automations that customers leverage to rapidly adopt network automation for specific use cases.
- Led a team of 2 support engineers in delivering post-implementation technical assistance to customers.
- Assisted in the planning and implementation of a high availability architecture and load balancing for the automation tool in production environments of customers to achieve minimal downtime.

### Web Developer @ Plan International USA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | United States
(Tech Stack: Node.js, React, NextJs, PostgreSQL, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, PHP, Heroku)
- Built and migrated web applications from PHP/SQL stack to Node.js, React/Next, PostgreSQL stack, integrated with Salesforce CRM and deployed with Heroku.
- Built, managed and deployed a stack of microsites with AWS Serverless components - Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SQS.
- Developed web projects and fixed bugs on the legacy web application built using PHP.
- Designed and built frontend of lightning web components on Salesforce.
- Developed google analytics dashboards to visualize data from the web application.
- Performed sentiment analysis on official twitter handles to get public insights.
- Created proof of concepts with latest technologies for implementation into the web application.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northern Illinois University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | United States
(Tech Stack: Python ML libraries, Azure analytics, Power-BI, Gephi)
- Delivered lectures to master’s students on social media analytics, Twitter’s streaming data, Azure stream analytics, Power- BI and Gephi., data cleaning, topic modelling (analyzing and classifying large volumes of text data) and sentiment analysis (emotion AI for text analysis and language processing) using Python’s libraries like pandas, nltk, tweepy, matplotlib etc.,
- Evaluated students’ exams and helped them debug and fix problems in their academic projects.

### Assistant System Engineer (Full Stack Developer) @ Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
(Tech Stack: Backbone.js, React, Mocha, Microservices, LESS, Handlebars, Spring-Boot, Google’s DFP)
- Developed client’s credit card applications using Backbone.js, Spring and responsive web design in a scrum team.
- Built full stack solutions following ADA accessibility guidelines.
- Migrated the frontend of the web application from Backbone.js to React.
- Prepared unit test cases for functional and creative scenarios and performed automated unit testing using Mocha.
- Improved the performance of the financial web application built using Backbone.js and Spring framework; reduced the size
by 60% and decreased the load time by 50%.
- Replaced the conventional way of displaying advertisements on the application using Google’s DoubleClick For Publishers.
- Developed a web application to keep track of the trainings of employees of the project.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Management Information Systems
Northern Illinois University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Mechanical Engineering
GITAM Deemed University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manikumarmis

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Source: https://flows.cv/manikanta
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Last updated: 2026-03-22