Henry Sampara

Senior Engineering Manager and IT/Technical Consultant with extensive industry experience. Expertise in full stack software development, cloud platforms and services, application programming, automation, and quality testing. Proven ability in planning and managing complex technical projects from requirements definition through deployment. Develops and implements well-architected solutions for products and services to meet business needs. Builds and leads multinational distributed software teams to achieve quality goals using key metrics and deliver within scope and deadline. Task-focused with strong analytical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)
• ITILv3.0
• Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), Software Quality Engineering (SQE)
• Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect

• Walmart Information Technology, Bentonville, AR, Senior Engineering Manager - DevOps (Catalog, Fulfilment, WMS), 07/01/23, Present, Develop DevOps Tools, Automation, Alert and Monitoring and best practices for Application development teams for Catalog, Fulfilment and ATLAS a Warehouse Management System which are used in US Stores and Distributed Centers., Oversee a distributed, multinational software team of eight engineers in the U.S. and multiple DevOps teams in India., DevOps teams automated and built CI/CD pipelines which deploys code from GitHub to dev, test and prod using CI/CD tools like Concord, Looper and WCNP (Walmart Cloud Native Platform). Automated deployments, setup of alert and monitoring, production issue resolution., Responsible for deployment and monitoring of ATLAS (Warehouse Management System) for US Grocery DC's.
• Walmart Information Technology, Bentonville, AR, Senior Engineering Manager - Supply Chain Application, 03/01/20, 07/01/23, Develop and support Global Logistics System, a warehouse management system (WMS) and supply chain application used all Walmart distribution centers and e-commerce fulfillment centers in the U.S., Oversee a distributed, multinational software team of eight engineers in the U.S. and seven engineers in India., Added key features to support the holiday peak season for the application to handle up to 150,000 orders per day to be fulfilled at the Walmart fulfillment centers.
• Walmart Information Technology, Bentonville, AR, Cloud Architect - Strati Platform Adoption, 03/01/19, 03/01/20, As a Cloud Consultant and Architect on the Platform Adoption team, supported the architectural design of cloud migration solutions to Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)., Developed and implemented several practical and reliable solutions for the cloud platforms., Engineered multi-cloud, inter-platform solutions for services for the application teams., Improved migration efficiency for the GCP teams by writing sample code and logic for using the services., Successfully migrated the on-premises applications to the public cloud platforms.
• Walmart Information Technology, Bentonville, AR, Staff Software Engineer - Strati Infrastructure Platform Automation, 03/01/18, 03/01/19, Engineered a stateless boot application programming interface (API) to support new private cloud development in the datacenters., Created a web UI interface called Asset Lifecycle Engine (ALE) to display host information on the private cloud. Utilized Bootstrap, PostgreSQL, Flask, and Python to develop the backend., Built a continuous integration (CI)/continuous deployment (CD) pipeline using Proximity, Concord, and Looper. Designed and ran the Docker image with Kubernetes., Successfully deployed the app in GCP.
• Walmart Information Technology, Bentonville, AR, Project Manager - Cloud-Powered Domain, 03/01/16, 03/01/18, As Agile Project Manager, led multiple multinational Scrum teams distributed across Arizona, Virginia, California, and India for the Cloud-Powered Technology program., Developed and deployed Platform as a Service (PaaS), Azure cloud, Openstack, and Internet as a Service (IaaS) technologies in the public and private clouds for the datacenters., Coordinated daily team activities and helped manage operations., Provided technical support in mitigating risks and resolving issues.
• Walmart Information Technology, Bentonville, AR, Project Manager - Canada Flex Point-of-Sale (POS) Gravity Link, 10/01/15, 03/01/16, Managed a team in implementing and integrating the frontend Gravity link into the POS backend and rolling out the system across all Canada stores., Integrated the POS system into Kroll, the Pharmacy system and deployed several new features, such as POS card supply, Western Union Services, and Flexible Promotion., Collaborated with Toshiba vendor partner throughout the project lifecycle and completed the deliverables on time.
• Walmart Information Technology, Bentonville, AR, Project Manager - General Supplies and Services (GSS) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) E-Invoicing, 12/01/14, 10/01/15, Led a team in implementing e-invoicing for stores across the Central America and Chile regions., Planned and executed the strategy for enabling e-invoicing capability for all designated store suppliers., The new capability allowed invoices to be electronically sent and internally processed in SAP by Financial Services teams.

• Walmart, Technical Project Manager, 03/01/13, 12/01/14
• Walmart, Technical Lead - Strategic Services Vendor Management Office, 02/01/11, 03/01/13
• Walmart, Technical Lead - Quality Management Office, 12/01/08, 02/01/11
• Walmart, Technical Lead - 21st Century Pharmacy Projects, 03/01/00, 03/01/07