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Sourabh Jain
Director of Software Engineering specializing in enterprise Data, ML & AI platforms
Bay Area, CAChief Consultant and Architect23 years experienceDirectorConsultingCybersecurityE-commerce
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Former Walmart Director of Software Engineering who left in March 2025 to build products for clients. Recently delivered an LLM/RAG-based UNSPSC classification solution for an MRO client using a multi-stage retrieval + web search + prompt-engineering workflow, and has led large-scale retail forecasting initiatives and high-severity cloud-migration incidents end-to-end.
Experience
Chief Consultant and ArchitectIndependent Projects & Startup Consulting
Director of Software EngineeringWalmart Global Tech
Senior Engineering Manager IIWalmart Global Tech
Engineering ManagerExpedia Group
Engineering ManagerEMC Corporation (RSA Division)
Principal Software EngineerEMC Corporation (RSA Division)
Lead EngineerSymantec / Verisign
Member of Technical StaffHCL Technologies
Software EngineerFitwell Tech
Education
Shri G S Institute of Technology & Sciencemaster, Computer Automation (2003)
University Institute of Technologybachelor, Computer Science & Engineering (2001)
Key Strengths
- Designed and implemented a multi-stage RAG workflow to map free-text part descriptions to UNSPSC codes (including web retrieval + scoring)
- Player-coach leadership as Director of Software Engineering; stayed technically deep via critical PR reviews and architecture/design reviews (~25% time)
- Scoped and delivered a large, ambiguous re-architecture of Walmart demand forecasting across multiple fulfillment channels with phased accuracy goals
- Owned a high-severity production incident during Azure→GCP migration (prod data deletion): stabilized business using 1-day-old forecasts, led restore and prevention controls
- Improved low employee engagement via weekly 1:1s, transparency rituals, and structured coaching/career development; junior engineer performance improved
- Increased delivery speed for weekly POC team by simplifying distributed review requirements and empowering more senior reviewers
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