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Nikita Mehta

Nikita Mehta

Bentonville,AR

Summary

Strategic engineering leader with 8+ years architecting large-scale, cloud-native platforms, driving cross-functional technical strategy, and delivering $40M+ in business impact. Recognized for building resilient, high-availability systems, championing GenAI adoption, and elevating engineering excellence across teams and organizations.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Software Engineer

Personalization Platform, Sam’s Club
01.2024 - Current


  • Built Next Best Action Platform powering Sam’s eCommerce—handling 10M+ daily requests.
  • Drove architecture strategy for personalization at scale across platforms.
  • Spearheaded GenAI tools rollout across the area, boosting dev productivity and coding consistency.
  • Migrated Sam’s to Walmart’s personalization engine—cut dev time by 50%.
  • Designed live feature engineering pipelines using behavioral data for dynamic member personalization.


Staff Software Engineer

Payments Platform, Sam’s Club
2022 - 01.2024


  • Led end-to-end delivery of Sam’s Omni Wallet platform across 8+ digital and in-club channels.
  • Optimized payment processing to unlock $41M+ in recurring membership revenue—boosted approval rates by 8%.
  • Achieved 100% PCI compliance, led multiple audits and secure platform rollouts.
  • Architected hybrid cloud deployment strategies for scalable payment systems.
  • Migrated critical payment tokenization systems (Xref → P2PE) with zero downtime.

Senior Software Engineer

Recurring Payments Platform
2021 - 2023
  • Developed a Recurring Payments Platform (state machine) eventually used for Membership Auto-renew process.
  • Worked with Membership and e-pay teams to integrate with multiple payment tenders.

Software Engineer III

AdTech (former Triad Retail Media), Sam’s Club
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Triad Retail Media Acquisition (now AdTech)
  • Led the integration of Triad Retail Media into the Sam’s ecosystem by standing up core infrastructure, stabilizing legacy services, and ensuring an on-time platform transition way before the TSA deadline.
  • Onboarded engineering teams by introducing Sam’s engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and DevOps workflows, accelerating their ability to contribute effectively.

Software Engineer III

Subscriptions Services, Sam’s Club
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Built Sam’s Subscriptions Platform for Sam's ecommerce to allow Membership growth via subscription services like Hulu, HBO Max and many more.
  • Integrated with Aria, a 3rd party providing automated account structures and product catalog for subscriptions management.
  • Re-designed the Subscriptions platform to allow a plug & play with Subscription partners to allow faster integration.

Software Engineer III

Sam’s Club
01.2017 - 01.2019
  • Membership Core
  • Led AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) adoption across teams, standardizing containerized deployments.
  • Built real-time monitoring dashboards integrating Azure Stream Analytics + Power BI.
  • Designed resilient microservices architecture for membership systems.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of North Carolina
Charlotte, USA
05-2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Amity University
India
01.2015

Skills

Functional Skills

  • Microservices
  • Cloud Platforms: GCP, Azure
  • Data Engineering
  • DevOps & Automation
  • Operational Excellence
  • PCI Compliance
  • AI Agentic Frameworks

Soft Skills

  • Engineering Leadership
  • Cross Functional Collaboration
  • Agile Execution
  • Conflict Management
  • Team Building
  • Resource management
  • Thought leadership

Accomplishments

  • $41M Revenue Growth via Sam’s membership auto-renewal optimization.
  • Innovation Catalyst: Championed GenAI, AI-backed personalization, and cloud-native transformations.
  • Acquisition Leader: Led tech integration during Sam’s Club acquisition of Triad Retail Media.
  • Uptime Champion: Executed zero-downtime migrations for critical payment infrastructure.
  • Team Builder: Built high-velocity teams with >85% sprint velocity.
  • Diversity Advocate: Board Member, Sam’s Women in Tech

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer

Personalization Platform, Sam’s Club
01.2024 - Current

Software Engineer III

AdTech (former Triad Retail Media), Sam’s Club
01.2020 - 01.2021

Software Engineer III

Subscriptions Services, Sam’s Club
01.2019 - 01.2021

Software Engineer III

Sam’s Club
01.2017 - 01.2019

Staff Software Engineer

Payments Platform, Sam’s Club
2022 - 01.2024

Senior Software Engineer

Recurring Payments Platform
2021 - 2023

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of North Carolina

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Amity University
Nikita Mehta