ABOUT MEI am a software architect with over 18 years of experience in software architecture, design, and development. I have proposed and built multiple backend APIs, including the post-book Order Servicing API, unified order search & retrieval API, and worked on consumer products like Microsoft OneNote for Mac and Windows Live OneCare. I have collaborated closely with product teams to align stakeholders and partnered with distinguished engineers to establish standard API patterns. Proficient in e-commerce industry technology trends, I actively introduced them to Expedia. I have also mentored senior engineers and motivated colleagues, significantly contributing to Expedia's talent development objectives.HIGHLIGHTS• Led architectural initiatives and established best practices for the entire USA region of Ordering Services organization at Expedia, guiding a team of 45 developers. • Architected, designed, and developed the Order Travel-API as a unified orchestration layer for all product lines, consolidating policies into a single API, leading to ROI of $30M annually for Expedia Group brands and partners.• Enhanced customer checkout experience by optimizing backend APIs, reducing waiting time from 68 to 45 seconds, leading to a 7% increase in self-service rate.• Designed and developed AWS-based Event Processing Service, enhancing feature turnaround, ensuring delivery guarantees, and allowing flexible event consumption based on capacity constraints.• Reduced annual cloud costs from 17.8M to 3.6M through resource optimization and adoption of cost-effective cloud services at Expedia.• Key contributor as one of the core architects in the development of the zero-to-one product, Microsoft OneNote for Mac, driving its inception and architectural design.
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Software ArchitectExpedia GroupAustin, Tx, Us -
Software ArchitectExpedia Group Apr 2020 - PresentAustin, Texas Metropolitan Area• Led architectural initiatives and established best practices for the entire USA region of Ordering Services organization at Expedia, guiding a team of 45 developers. • Successfully completed Cloud cost reduction program that improved Unit Economics from 17.8M to 3.6M i.e. a saving of 14M /annum. This was achieved by identifying multiple opportunities based on my previous experience. These include Lights On & Off approach (stopping non prod environments on weekends), cleanup of unused resources, reducing Tier 2, 3, and 4 Applications to a single region, right sizing of instances and adoption of Fargate Spots and EC2 Spots. Presented these approaches and findings in the Expedia Cloud Focals forum to be adopted across other orgs.• Architected, designed and developed Order Travel-API (Eligibility and Change) is a single layer of orchestration for all product lines which enables clients to build and deploy new features seamlessly. Vastly reduces development time for upstream clients by bringing disparate policies into a single consolidated API. These APIs are used by all the brands owned by Expedia group like Expedia.com and Hotels.com.• Architected, designed and developed Order Query service which is a unified search and retrieval API based on GraphQL. This creates a single interface and reduces the amount of data exchanged between the brand sites and APIs.• Introduced processes across teams that drove cultural swift to embrace self sufficiency in terms of SDLC processes. This included establishing a standardized Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) framework in Jenkins, that was adopted and is now a baseline when setting up new teams.• Crafted the standards for Authorization token and metadata.This standard was produced in partnership with Enterprise Architects. This has eliminated disparate parameters for APIs used by various partners across Expedia. -
Senior Software Development EngineerExpedia Group May 2018 - Apr 2020Greater Seattle Area• Led a team of 5 developers to build a robust, error proof, global, and fraud resistant air service platform to power customer facing post book Air servicing.• Improved the performance of all the micro services in Global Customer Operations for Air product line. UI response time improved by 30% due to changes and improvements made in backend APIs.• Designed and developed rest services to adapt Expedia web calls for Seva platform and Point of Sale configuration library. -
Principal Software Engineer Ecomm DevStaples Sep 2014 - May 2018Greater Seattle Area• Led a team of engineers to build features for Staples search UI and backend APIs.• Designed and developed backend APIs that power the UI for Staple search. • Designed and developed a highly scalable home-grown API automation framework with data driven approach.• Achieved more than 95% automation and reduced UI automation runtime from 12 hours to 4 hours.Team mentor who coached in the areas of UI automation frameworks. • Recipient of “Staples Pro Hero” award. -
Senior Software Development EngineerMicrosoft Jul 2005 - Sep 2014Redmond, Washington* Designed and developed Team sync, Role sync from Identity to iAdmin using C#, LINQ and ODATA Services. * Designed and developed passport enabled web service, required for Online Backup functionality of Windows Live OneCare using Asp.NET, Xml and Web services.* Designed and developed Cocoa based WLMUser and WLMGDI for Mac OneNote using Objective-C, Cocoa Framework, C++ and Win32 API. * Developed the Presence Card and Presence information for Mac Messenger in C++ and Objective-C.* Developed Test framework for testing sync between Identity and iAdmin using C#, ODATA Service, and LINQ to SQL.
Bhargava Alanka Education Details
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Computer Science & Systems Engineering
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Bhargava Alanka works for Expedia Group
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Bhargava Alanka's current role is Software Architect.
What schools did Bhargava Alanka attend?
Bhargava Alanka attended Andhra University.
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