# Phani K. > Staff Software Engineer at doxo Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/phanik ✔ I have a pragmatic approach to software engineering with a bias towards action and iteration while having a keen eye on results. ✔ Honing my craft is a lifelong journey for me. ✔ I have an insatiable appetite for learning but keep it focused and bounded by building a T shaped skill set. ✔ I have good communication skills but I am more proud of my execution skills. I love it when I make things happen. ✔ In times of need , I can play the super-hero, but software engineering is a team sport. Significant and sustainable growth only happens through teams. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ doxo Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Software Engineer @ doxo Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 ### Senior Software Engineer 2 @ doxo Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area ### Sabbatical @ Sabbatical Break Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area -- Strategic break to re-energize after having successfully executed multiple large-scale critical projects. ### Senior Software Engineer 2 @ Nordstrom Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area -- Designed a new event driven system for Nordstrom store inventory , data going from Oracle on-prem databases using Oracle Golden Gate to Kafka in AWS Cloud. System sends out 3 million messages per day with the goal of improving store inventory visibility for 200+ stores and reduced technical debt by 50%. -- Implemented an event driven system that created a consolidated inventory picture for all of Nordstrom’s warehouses in AWS while providing quality event sourced data for onboarded consumers. This system was one of the major contributors to a significant reduction in customer cancellations for the company. (136 basis points better than the previous year). Reduced inventory discrepancies from 3 – 5% to 0.12% at fulfillment centers. -- Implemented an inventory reconciliation process for warehouses that eliminated 4 + hour downtime at two fulfillment centers which resulted in warehouses shipping an additional 200,000 units every month (thus an additional $10 million in sales realized sooner in a year). -- Built out a ElasticSearch based dashboard to trend and alert on vital numbers on supply chain warehouse systems. (Number of customer orders received , notify when a customer cancel happens etc). -- Customized Oracle custom JMS Queue data transmissions to improve inventory integrity efforts. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Nordstrom Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area -- Implemented a real time soap service based inventory messaging system from all warehouses to Oracle merchandising system. Previously this was a 2 hour batch process. -- Customized warehouse management base packages to support a 2nd cross belt sorter at a fulfillment center. -- Wrote an XML parser based on X-Path technologies for incoming XML messages. -- Wrote multiple SOAP based web service clients to allow printing warehouse pack slips. ### Software Engineer @ Costco Wholesale Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Issaquah , WA -- System analysis , requirements gathering on IT systems used in the optical department for HIPPA- HITECH compliancy. -- Wrote encryption and decryption wrappers based on nuBridges software. ### Software Engineer @ Starbucks Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Greater Seattle Area -- Designed, coded an automated day light savings time turn off - turn on solution for all of the Starbucks stores in US. -- Various coding, scripting activities and change management and control activities ### Technology Analyst @ Infosys Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 -- Coding / testing various programs and functionalities for various clients in the retail industry. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/phanikowta --- Source: https://flows.cv/phanik JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/phanik/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01