# Manoj Vallaravila Ramachandran

> Principal Software Engineer Oracle

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/manojvallaravilaramachandran

Passionate tech savvy consultant who collaborates with clients to solve their challenging requirements

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2022 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States
Currently working on Data Catalog Metastore which provides a highly available and scalable central repository of metadata for a Hive cluster. It stores metadata for data structures such as databases, tables, and partitions in a relational database, backed by files maintained in Object Storage.

Designed and implemented caching for constraints for Metastore.
Evaluate the Delta Lake capabilities for Metastore.
Design and develop job to harvest the Delta Lake metadata.
Design and develop locking strategy to run the jobs in only one pod.
Designed and implemented caching for Privileges.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Blackhawk Network
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designed and implemented a persistence framework to persist the transactions to the cloud using Redis and Amazon RDS MySQL. 
Implemented add to wallet feature for Alipay application.
Design graceful eviction of messages from transaction processing queue.
Implemented virtual transaction service for supporting variable denomination gift cards.

### Senior Technical Consultant @ Litmus7
Jan 2011 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale CA
Client: Kroger
Analyzed the feasibility of the open source Bloomreach experience manager to replace an inhouse developed CMS platform. Worked with the frontend team, and created homepage and shelf and search page templates.

Client: Sam's Club
Designed and developed a batch framework for extracting Sam's Club catalog to Walmart catalog for a project that was done for sharing the warehouse between Sams and Walmart..
Lead a project for Customer Support Center application by working with Product and designing and planning for releases and coordinating work from the offshore team.
Designed and developed item extraction mechanism to export the product catalog stored in Oracle to Cassandra.
Designed and developed Product and Pricing API for site redesign project and also worked as a coordinator for onsite and offshore team.  
Analyzed and migrated CMS application running on Oracle ATG Commerce to the latest version.
Analyzed and migrated Search engine running on Endeca to the latest version.

Client: Sephora
Designed and developed new features and enhancements for their Content Management  application.
Designed partial updates workflow for their Search Engine running in Endeca.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Wipro Technologies
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Kochi
Client:Walmart Canada
Lead a team which designed and developed a CMS application on Oracle ATG Commerce.

### Software Engineer @ UST Global
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Trivandram
Client:Wellpoint
Designed and developed new features, fixed bugs, and trained customer support center users on the new features, for a customer support application used by the agents to answer the queries of customers who have mail order prescription of drugs.


## Education
### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Mahatma Gandhi University

### Central Board of Secondary Education Tenth and Plus Two in High School
Bhavan's Vidya Mandir Girinagar Cochin Kerala


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manoj-vallaravila-ramachandran-48470529

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Last updated: 2026-04-12