Raghavender Muppavaram
Rogers,AR
Summary
Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience, highly tech-enthusiastic and a recognized cloud champion. Proven track record in backend development, architectural design, cloud migrations, and automation initiatives that significantly improved team productivity and reduced operational costs. Adept in Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL, Azure, Kubernetes, and leveraging AI for development workflows.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer – Core Membership Team
Sam’s Club
12.2019 - Current
- Led a team of 3 engineers to drive V2 platform enhancement for the Organization and Member Activities domains, delivering zero-downtime rollout with backward compatibility.
- Designed and owned the domain decomposition of a monolithic application, implementing a domain-driven design for the Membership V2 project, including the Organization and Member Activities domains.
- Led the migration of critical membership backend systems to Azure Cloud, delivering scalable APIs for ZIP alignment, client onboarding, and batch/ETL processing via Databricks and Java Spring.
- Designed a shadowing mechanism to migrate clients from REST to GraphQL APIs with zero impact, facilitating seamless transition during the Membership V2 rollout.
- Converted legacy monolithic REST services into modular GraphQL services for enhanced performance, flexibility, and client experience.
- Collaborated with the Sam’s Club Cloud Team to provision AKS clusters and CI/CD pipelines for Membership applications.
- Developed cloud-native APIs, batch jobs (DIM), and ETL pipelines using Azure Functions and Databricks for Membership V1 systems.
- Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines for Azure App Services and AKS deployments, increasing deployment speed and reducing incidents.
- Implemented semi-automated workflows for certificate renewals on AKS and App Services, significantly reducing manual effort and streamlining operational processes.
- Designed and implemented one-click BCDR automation through Concord Pipelines.
- Recognized as an Infra & Automation Champion, with multiple initiatives to improve operational excellence.
- Developed a fully automated GraphQL plugin for the federation layer to version individual domain graphs. This solution imports all domain graphs, merges changes into the repo, and auto-creates Jira tickets with upgraded versions for each team to integrate.
- Membership Plutus: Scaled down cloud resources during weekends and scaled up during weekdays, saving over 10% on Azure compute and data services.
- CRQ Automation: Automated creation of CRQs, Word docs, and playbooks from config files—cutting developer effort by 50%.
- One-click Jira story generator and GraphQL documentation publisher via GitHub Pages.
- Certificate renewal semi-automation for AKS and App Services.
- Integrated AI-based tools (e.g., Qodo Merge) for automated code review assignments using AI scores.
- Used AI plugins to detect issues, promote best practices, and speed up delivery.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of North Texas
Denton, TX12-2017
Skills
- Azure Cloud
- Cosmos DB
- Service Bus
- BigQuery
- Pub/Sub
- Databricks
- Java
- Spring Boot
- GraphQL
- REST
- Concord Pipelines
- Kubernetes
- Istio
- WCNP
- AI-based developer tools
Personal Information
Title: Senior Software Engineer – Core Membership Team
Tools And Technologies
Azure (AKS, App Services, Cosmos DB, Service Bus, Functions, APIM), GCP (BigQuery, Pub/Sub), Databricks, Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL, REST, Bash, YAML, Concord Pipelines, GitHub Actions, ServiceNow, Confluence, Jira, Kubernetes, Istio, WCNP, GitHub Pages, AI-based developer tools
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer – Core Membership Team
Sam’s Club
12.2019 - Current
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of North Texas
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