Sonia Parandekar

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams at Atlassian for commerce and marketplace.
Expert in software engineering and agile methodologies.
Designed user tracking solutions for Microsoft Bing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with extensive experience in software development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringAgile MethodologiesSoftware Design

Other Skills

C#Ruby on RailsScalabilityRubySoftware DevelopmentAlgorithmsSQLJavaScriptMobile ApplicationsVisual StudioCRESTWeb ApplicationsTestingDistributed Systems

Experience

22 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs

Current Experience

Atlassian

2 roles

Head of Engineering for Commerce

Jun 2019 – Present · 7 yrs

C#Ruby on RailsScalabilitySoftware EngineeringAgile MethodologiesRuby+12

Head of Engineering for Marketplace

Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr

Urban ladder

2 roles

VP of Engineering

Apr 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Director of Engineering

Aug 2014 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Groupon

3 roles

Sr. Engineering Manager - Groupon Goods

Jul 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr

Engineering Manager - Platform

Jan 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

Senior Development Engineer

May 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

Microsoft bing

3 roles

Software Design Engineer II

May 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr

Designed and implemented instrumentation for user tracking across the Social Platform by extending the MSN wide tracking solution.
Responsible for several social widgets on the MSN network home and channel pages, such as Hotmail module.

Software Design Engineer II

Promoted

Apr 2007 – Apr 2010 · 3 yrs

Core member of the team responsible for shipping Excel Services in Office 2010 and Office Web Apps.
Collaborated with teams across Office for sharing components such as the server ribbon, the
Web Apps platform, a common infrastructure for sharing images across products and helped drive improvements across these platforms.
Designed and implemented several key features in Excel Web Access, including editing features such as formula editing and editing modes, the toolbar, notification bars, row/column resizing,
formula bar, help links, performance measurement infrastructure etc.

Software Design Engineer

Feb 2006 – Apr 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

February 2006 April 2007
Software Development Engineer in MSN TV team.

University of washington

2 roles

Electrical Engineering

Aug 2000 – Mar 2003 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Research Assistant

Jul 2000 – Apr 2003 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Designed and developed a system for data driven feature-based model selection using a Genetic
Algorithm.
Researched and developed a novel approach to LID (language identification) using articulatory
features. Investigated and implemented further enhancements to this system as part of
Master's Thesis work.