# Radhika Dharurkar > Engineering leader with expertise in cloud, datalake, AI, customer identity and Data Privacy landscape Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/radhikadharurkar Leading at the forefront of Walmart Global Tech as a Senior Manager II, my focus is on refining data integration and master data management (MDM) solutions. With a tenure that has seen the successful implementation of a universal customer identifier, customer linkages, identity management, US comprehensive privacy compliance laws, my expertise lies in simplifying complex data landscapes into coherent, actionable insights. Our team has been pivotal in the development of Walmart's Savings Catcher, leveraging Hadoop and Java to automate price matching—a testament to our commitment to enhance the customer experience. It is through these innovations in technology and unwavering dedication to excellence that Walmart continues to redefine retail efficiency. ## Work Experience ### Senior manager II @ Walmart Global Tech Jan 2022 – Present ### Principal Software Engineer @ Walmart Jan 2021 – Present ### Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Savings Catcher Working on an online tool that performs automated price matching for Walmart items as compared against its competitors and refunds money on higher priced items via gift card credit. Built backend-processing logic for retrieving data from HBase, validating it, querying store transactions and competitor’s data for matching items, finding adjustment price, pushing data to HDFS and updating HBase. Universal Customer Identifier Worked on Master Data Management (MDM) to establish a universal custom identifier, and profile that merges profiles from all Walmart properties into one customer. This serves as the single source of truth for customer data for Walmart global e-commerce. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Walmart Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ### Software Engineer @ Walmart Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ### SDE Intermediate @ Yahoo! Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale, California, US Knowledge and Personalization Services team. • Developed a pipeline to fetch the facebook fan page data in order to import users’ current interests. Handled big data for millions of yahoo users which have connected their facebook and yahoo profiles. Used hadoop technologies viz. Map/Reduce, Pig & Oozie. • Performed statistical analysis on this big data to identify different parameters. e.g. Suitable methods for data fetch, Number of fetches per day, Incremental updates and Refresh rates for data fetch. • Implementing monitoring for facebook likes pipeline by writing a hadoop file system & data counter rules. ### Intern @ Yahoo! Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Content Optimization and Relevance Engine (CORE) team. • Developed a tool to simplify interaction between Engineering, Research, Production, and Quality Assurance teams for A/B testing. It acted as a central repository for tracking all bucket configuration requests. • Programmed monitoring for the buckets with the help of threshold mechanism at different context levels. • Created the front end using PHP, NodeJS, Javascript and YUI. ### Research Assistant with Ebiquity Lab @ University of Maryland Baltimore County Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | University of Maryland Baltimore County • Member of the Ebiquity Lab at UMBC which specializes in mobile and pervasive computing, the semantic web, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, security/privacy/trust and services. • Research -Built a collaborative data gathering and activity recognition system on the Android Platform. The underlying techniques used were machine learning and semantic web. ### Teaching Assistant @ University of Maryland Baltimore County Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | University of Maryland Baltimore County Designed course content; Conducted labs,and Evaluated assignments, exams for following undergraduate courses - • 'Data Structures and Algorithms in Java' • 'Discrete Structures' ### Summer Intern @ Constellation Energy Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Technology division - Dealnet Project • Devised web and email scrapers using C# .Net & WCF". • Performed DBA tasks like normalization and enhanced mappers. ### Technical Associate @ Tech Mahindra Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 J2EE Developer in Embedded and Mobility Competency and Solutions Unit • Devised an Interactive Services Framework for ‘Motorola DVBH’ Mobile TV solution. Built AJAX-powered interfaces on Apache Tomcat & MySQL with the help of Java Servlets, JSP & iBATIS. Acquired expertise in portal development & customizations on ‘Liferay’. • Performed Manual & Automation Testing with the help of Code beamer, VBScript for the ‘ASUS Multi-function Set Top Box’ project. ### Intern @ Aftek Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 • Configured and ported Linux Kernel 2.4 for a ‘Smart Card Reader’ on ARM9 (S3C2510) processor based board. • Developed Device Drivers for peripherals namely RC500, Keypad and LCD. ## Education ### Master of Science in Computer Science University of Maryland Baltimore County ### Bachelor's degree Savitribai Phule Pune University ### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering Cummins College of Engineering, Pune ### Savitribai Phule Pune University ### Savitribai Phule Pune University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/radhika-dharurkar-4476b514 - Portfolio: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/person/html/Radhika/Dharurkar/ - Portfolio: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~radhika1/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/radhikadharurkar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/radhikadharurkar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12