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, USA05-2017
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Amity University
India01.2015
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