# Shishira Chandra

> Staff Software Engineer | Java/J2EE, SOA, Kafka, Azure, Vertex AI, SpringBoot, Spring JPA, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, SQL, Mongo DB, Grafana, Prometheus

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shishira

At Albertsons Companies, leadership in Java and microservices architecture drives the development of applications that impact our retail operations nationwide. Our team's designs have been vital in handling up to 20 million API calls and 40 million Kafka messages daily, underpinning the seamless performance of critical applications used in over 2200 stores.

Fostering a collaborative environment, we've leveraged technologies like Kafka, Azure, and Twilio to enhance customer engagement and operational efficiency. Our innovative work with Gemini Pro Vertex AI models has allowed us to be proactive for enhancing customer experience in the fulfillment domain, while consistently maintaining API performance to meet a stringent 300 ms SLA.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Albertsons Companies
Jan 2021 – Present | Pleasanton, California, United States
• Designed and lead the development of multiple modules to create a robust and critical application used widely across all Albertsons stores
• Key figure in envisioning an OLTP application with microservices architecture to support 3 front-end apps
• Integration with Kafka, Azure, Docker to build an application that sees traffic of upto 20 mil APIs & 40 mil Kafka msgs/day
• Prominent figure in creating chat experience using Twilio conversations.
• Leading efforts on exploring Gemini Pro Vertex AI models to evolve customer experience in fulfillment domain.
• Improved multiple APIs performance to reach SLA of 300 ms.
• Liaison between Enterprise level architects, Product and Engineering managers to bring many initiatives to fruition
• Integrated with multiple vendors to achieve key revenue generators such as DoorDash, Uber grocery pickups
• Integrated with Kafka & Albertsons Catalog to bring data in real-time
• Implemented Server Sent Events to front end to increase productivity
• Used Google Vertex AI APIs to perform chat sentiment analysis and automatic chat replies

### Senior Software Engineer @ TCS/ Apple
Jan 2011 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, CA, United States
Core developer in the creation of  payment widget with ApplePay integration. The payment widget is a multi-faceted plugin that works with multiple web applications. Designed the REST APIs (Using Reactive principles and Java 8) in a microservices framework for processing the payments securely. Involved with the integration of Apple's encryption engine for CreditCard payment flows. Designed solutions for the payment widget keeping scalability and performance in mind.

- Executed multiple projects at Apple Inc for customer facing applications
- Crucial player in the migration of outdated monolithic architecture based web application to Service Oriented Architecture
- Expertise in SpringBoot, Functional and Reactive Programming, Java 8 and NO SQL (Mongo)
- Experienced with AWS and Apple private cloud
- Vital knowledge of DevOps practices (Jenkins, AWX and shell scripting)
- Experienced with setting up zero-downtime applications to avoid scalability issues
- Extensive experience in leading teams and mentoring other members of the team

### Software Developer @ TCS/ Apple
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
The National Institute Of Engineering, Mysore


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shishira-chandra-b248a117b

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Last updated: 2026-04-12