Sonali Saksena

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Achieved 1.5 Million Objects/hr throughput at Oracle
Won Nutanix Hackathon 2022
Maintained high CGPA of 9.31 at BITS Pilani

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Fullstack Developer with strong expertise in microservices and cloud technologies.

Contact

thesonali.saksena@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesKubernetesAiJavaReact JsData Structures And Algorithms

Other Skills

RedisKafkaAWS s3NginxgRPCProtobufJiraConfluenceAPISQLMySQLSpringbootREST APIsNoSQLNode.js

About

I am currently working at Oracle as Senior Member of Technical Staff. Prior to that I have worked at Nutanix for about 4 years as a Full Stack Web Developer. I have completed my undergraduate studies at BITS Pilani, B.E. CSE in the year 2020. I have Interned at Goldman Sachs as a Summer Analyst in the Technology division. I am skilled in C++, Data structures, Algorithms, Java, Databases and Javascript. Maintaining a consistently high CGPA (9.31) is another pride that I hold. I have been an active volunteer for Nirmaan, a student run NGO in BITS Pilani for the past three years. I have also been selected as scholar in May 2021 for the Global Governance Initiative. I have also won the Nutanix Hackathon 2022, and numerous Employee Star Awards for working on critical projects in the team.

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Oracle

Senior Member of Technical Staff

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru

Edge Telemetry & High-Throughput Integration:
Developed the stream consumer microservice for the Edge Telemetry (ET) Gateway launch to integrate OCI Redis, Streaming (Kafka), Kafka Consumer, Events, Object Storage (AWS s3), Reverse Proxy (Nginx) / NLB, and WAF, achieving 1.5 Million Objects/hr throughput and 6TB/hr average volume.
Developed canary-based microservice to externally monitor all components of ET service end-to-end including OCI streaming (Kafka), Kafka Consumer Groups, Nginx, WAF & Redis and alarms to ensure SLO ≥ 99% availability
AI, Monitoring & Reliability: Created an AI workflow to read tasks from Jira tickets and raise PR, also suggest new test cases, automated post deploy checks and publish reports to Confluence documents via MCP. Designed a weekly cron-based automation for Security Central tickets (~200/week)Leveraged AI tools (GPT 5.4 models) to increase automated unit test code coverage to 60%.
Migrations, K8s Deployments & Performance: Executed a migration strategy for RPC Gateway to a Schema Store API across 12 clusters using Kubernetes (k8s) Helm chart, and implemented API and SQL optimizations that reduced GW cache build time from ~30 minutes to ~1 minute.
Scale & Core Gateway Services: Built and scaled security services processing 1M+ QPS across 12 distributed clusters with <100ms latency, and owned the DES-RPC Gateway (600K RPS peak), managing s2s traffic between assurance planes using gRPC protocol and protobuf.
Resilient Caching & Data Sync: Engineered a Redis-based Control Plane Caching Layer for the TLB control plane ($100M+ backbone across 40+ clusters) and a fault-tolerant edge configuration cache with sequence-based streaming sync, eliminating 90% of remote DRS/MySQL calls with snapshot-based recovery.
Onboarded 5+ engineers, and contributed to hiring drives via the Oracle Campus Recruitment Team and Oracle Mentorship Program, which resulted in the promotion of 2 IC1s.

MicroservicesRedisKafkaAWS s3NginxgRPC+3

Nutanix

3 roles

Member Of Technical Staff 3

Promoted

Feb 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

JavaReact.jsMicroservicesSpringbootREST APIsKafka+15

Member Of Technical Staff 2

Jul 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

I am currently working in the SaaS engineering team, on a sales tool designed to help the company create accurate quotes. The tech stack comprises of Java, ElasticSearch, drools for the backend operations. This tool is used by 2500+ sales representatives across the firm. I have also mentored new joiners in the team and helped in their smooth onboarding. I have created a positive work environment in the team by organizing several outings and team building activities.

JavaElasticSearchDrools

Intern, Member of Technical Staff

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 · 6 mos

Global governance initiative

GGI Impact Scholar 2021

May 2021 – May 2024 · 3 yrs

GGI was started in Jan, 2019 with a dream to re-imagine and re-build higher education on impact topics to embrace youth through interactive-agile Masterclasses and research based fellowship program.

Goldman sachs

Summer Intern, Analyst

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos

My project aimed at designing an Interactive User Interface using React JS and Redux.This software would be leveraged by 20+ business users all across the firm for Information Retrieval and would potentially save 50+ manhours. I used Java8, Restful APIs and some SQL queries for the backend operations.

Birla institute of technology and science, pilani

3 roles

Course Mentor, Core Competitive Coding

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Apr 2019 · 3 mos

I served as a course mentor for the course,Core Competitive Programming offered by Centre of Technical Education , BITS and helped the students to obtain hands on learning of Competitive Programming.

Computer ProgrammingComputer ArchitectureData Structures and AlgorithmsLogic in Computer ScienceDiscrete Structures in Computer Science

Core Member

Apr 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr

I served as a core member of Algomaniax, the competitive coding club of BITS Pilani. I mentored over 80 students, guiding them and helping them to progress in Competitive Coding. I also participated in various contests organized by Algomaniax on online platforms like Codechef and HackerRank.

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Teaching Assistant for Computer Programming,Computer Architecture, Data Structures and Algorithms, Logic in Computer Science and Discrete Structures in Computer Science course in BITS Pilani.
I evaluated the students during the labs. I learnt debugging codes during Lab hours and understanding different viewpoints to the same problem. I also assisted the Professor in evaluating the answer scripts and conducting tutorial sessions.

Google

Member

Sep 2018 – Jun 2019 · 9 mos

I am a member of Google's Women Techmakers program which aims at providing resources for women in technology.I have also attended the Google Intern Connect Day held in Bangalore.

React JSReduxJava8RESTful APIsSQL

Ultratech cement

Summer Research Intern

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos

The objective of the project was to optimize the process of Backhauling. Our team developed a self learning model using feedback mechanism and Probability Calculation.

Nirmaan organisation

Project Head

Apr 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr

Nirmaan Organization works for the betterment of the society and as a Project Head, I have led my vertical (Teach Zari) towards a more promising future. The team consists of over 50 volunteers who regularly go and teach students in a nearby low industrial area, Zari. The team organizes various activities to promote interactive learning amongst the local kids. We prepare them for various scholarship exams like NTSE and JNVST.
We try to educate them in such a way that they understand the importance of education and basic mannerism. Besides going there and teaching the students, my work majorly involved smooth functioning of the vertical, ensuring that activities/sessions are being conducted to improve the awareness and knowledge of the kids and also making sure that there is a sufficient number of volunteers, who are motivated enough to go and teach the kids on a regular basis.

Microsoft

Codess

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos

Codess is a global networking platform for female engineers to explore ways to promote gender diversity in the field of technology. I was one of the 150 women selected for the program and received mentorship by senior Microsoft engineers who imparted their industry knowledge for becoming better leaders.