Khyati Soneji

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Experienced in enhancing data streaming and security operations.
Proven track record in mentoring and onboarding new talent.
Strong background in privacy compliance and database management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with expertise in data streaming and security operations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data StreamingSecurity OperationsSite Reliability EngineeringPrivacy ComplianceFrontend Development

Other Skills

KafkaSnowflakeOperational EfficiencyPythonMySQLSchema ModificationMentoringGolangReactHAMLJavaScriptHTMLCSSRuby on RailsDatabases

About

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ksoneji99 Blog: https://medium.com/@ksoneji Freecodecamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/khyatisoneji Open Source Contributor at Wikimedia | Completed three remote internships Completed Outreachy internship at Wikimedia, community bridge internship at Thanos (CNCF) and 6 months internship at RedHat Currently working as a SRE at Twitter

Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 1 mo

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

Software Engineer

Apr 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Confluent

Software Engineer

May 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Part of the Kafka Connect Security team, managing security operations and swiftly addressing vulnerabilities to maintain comprehensive protection and compliance.
Closely collaborated with the Snowflake team to enhance the Snowflake Kafka Connector for Confluent, enabling real-time data streaming via Snowpipe Streaming. This integration reduced latency, improved throughput, and increased adoption of Snowflake Connectors, significantly boosting operational efficiency.

KafkaSecurity OperationsSnowflakeData StreamingOperational Efficiency

Twitter

Site Reliability Engineer

Jul 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of Twitter Databases team, building privacy compliance using python for MySQL, Vertica and CloudSQL databases.
Created auto schema modification tools using PT-OSC to improve retention and scrubbing performance by 33%. Acted as mentor by onboarding and guiding SDE-1.

PythonMySQLPrivacy ComplianceSchema ModificationMentoringSite Reliability Engineering

Red hat

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Worked on adding security tasks to CI/CD pipeline.

Cncf [cloud native computing foundation]

Intern

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 · 2 mos

Worked on Thanos, which is an incubated project by CNCF.
Worked with Golang to have strong Read Write consistency between different components of Thanos

Golang

Google code-in

Mentor

Nov 2019 – Jan 2020 · 2 mos

Mentoring school students contribute to Wikimedia organization.

Wikimedia foundation

Outreachy Mentor

Sep 2019 – Feb 2020 · 5 mos

Mentoring Outreachy internship for Wikimedia.
Project: Converting Campaign Pages to React
Mentoring interns to convert frontend code from old haml codebase to React codebase.
Technologies involved: Javascript, HTML, CSS, HAML
Link: https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/wikimedia/#convert-campaign-pages-to-react

ReactHAMLJavaScriptHTMLCSSFrontend Development

Wiki education foundation

Outreachy Intern

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos

Added support for counting references added to English Wikipedia articles in Programs & Events Dashboard(ReactJs + Rails on Ruby + Haml), along with improved data download options and support for scoping via PetScan PSIDs, to make Program and Event Dashboard better tool for #1lib1ref campaign

Learn it, girl

Project Intern

Mar 2019 – Jun 2019 · 3 mos

Made a slack bot using Slack API, that would ask given questions to interns during a remote internship at the scheduled time. Made using RoR and PostgreSQL.

ReactRuby on RailsHAML