Praveenkumar Kanumala
Director, Software Engineering, Walmart Global Tech
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Introduction
Praveenkumar Kanumala is the Director of Software Engineering in Personalization & Recommendations at Walmart Global Tech. With over 14+ years of experience, he has developed a deep understanding in building scalable Embedding Stores, ANN Service, & Multi- Model ML (Machine Learning) Inference Platforms. Praveen has submitted 12 patent applications, with 11 patents granted. Additionally, he has published three papers, with two accepted at industry-leading conferences. His work in Customer Understanding & Intent Understanding has garnered 28 citations and has been referenced by Fortune 500 companies such as Walmart, Adobe Inc, VMware Inc, United Services Automobile Association (USAA), W.W. Grainger Inc, and NCR Corporation. Kanumala’s past contributions at Walmart played a key role in developing catalog services for Samsclub.com. He is passionate in fostering innovation and conducting research in machine learning platforms, with a specific emphasis on real-time inference in the areas of customer and intent understanding.