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Vinayaka V Ladwa

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Principal Engineer | AI/ML, GenAI & Big Data Platforms | Walmart at Walmart
📍 Greater Fayetteville, AR Area, United States

Vinayaka is a Principal Engineer at Walmart, architecting enterprise AI/ML, GenAI, and Big Data platforms at a global scale. A FinOps Certified Practitioner, he builds the foundation for the end-to-end AI lifecycle. Colleagues describe him as a hardworking, passionate, and skilled "go-getter" who excels at understanding complex technical concepts.

He successfully transitioned from a QA background to become a leader in DevOps and now enterprise-scale AI platform engineering.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Principal Engineer | AI/ML, GenAI & Big Data Platforms | Walmart
Job Level
Middle
Location
Greater Fayetteville, AR Area, United States
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Enterprise GenAI
He architects and leads Walmart's Generative AI platform, integrating models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to enable AI adoption across the company.
AI/ML Platform Engineering
He builds foundational platforms that support the entire AI/ML lifecycle, from model development and distributed training to production deployment and governance.
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Work history

6-2025
Principal Engineer | AI/ML, GenAI & Big Data Platforms | Walmart
Walmart
1-2024 - 6-2025
Staff Software Engineer
Walmart
12-2020 - 3-2024
Staff Software Engineer
Walmart Global Tech India
4-2019 - 12-2020
Senior Software Engineer | Software Engineer 4, Machine Learning Platform
Walmart Labs
4-2018 - 3-2019
Software Engineer 3 | DevOps Engineer | Bigdata Engineer
Juniper Networks
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B.E
GM Institute of Technology
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