Chandrasekhara (Samba) Mokkapati Research Profile

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Chandrasekhara Mokkapati (Samba) is an experienced Director of Software Engineering based in Atlanta, GA, with a strong background in managing large-scale technical teams and complex systems. At Macy's, he oversees the transformation of pricing and merchandising systems, emphasizing scalability, resilience, and site reliability engineering. His expertise includes DevOps, cloud architectures (AWS and GCP), and CI/CD pipelines. With a proven track record at JCPenney and Macy's, Samba has driven significant cost savings and efficiency improvements, notably in cloud transformations and automation frameworks. His career reflects a commitment to innovation, team development, and operational excellence.

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Macy's

Sep-2019 to Present

 Responsible for the delivery and transformation of Pricing Systems (Planning, Authoring, Consumption) that fits needs of YoY business needs for all divisions of Macy’s (Macys, Bloomingdales, Macys Backstage, Bloomingdales outlet) across all selling channels (Stores, Mobile App, Mobile Web, Desktop, Tablet, Customer Service Center)  Responsible for the delivery and transformation of Macy’s Merchandising Site Reliability Engineering team and Merchandising Support teams.  Mentor, Coach and Manage the careers of the engineers on Pricing teams to ensure their continued growth and development  Deliver the next gen Pricing system that supports the needs of 500+ Buyer/Pricing users to plan and author Price changes and build near-real-time Price consumption system that supports 50K Transactions per second with 30ms response time  Responsible to lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions - Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community.  Support to adoption of platform engineering & site reliability engineering mindset across technology team.  Proactively simplify technology footprint and reducing technical debt in solutions.  Collaborate with various cross-functional teams to design & build enterprise services – product management, business teams, Vendors, Finance, DevOps and SRE.