Sonal Raj
Vice President & Head, Data Engineering And Research
Telangana, India
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Top SchoolSonal Raj is a seasoned data engineering and quantitative research leader with 13 years of experience, currently heading Global Data Engineering and Research for a top high-frequency trading firm where she built teams and end-to-end infrastructure for market data, ML platforms, latency monitoring, and strategy simulation. Her career spans senior roles at D. E. Shaw and Goldman Sachs designing low-latency trading systems and time-series frameworks, as well as entrepreneurial practice—co-founding analytics and robotics startups and authoring a book on Neo4j performance. She combines hands‑on engineering (Python, scalable graph and streaming systems) with product strategy and team development, delivering production-grade analytics and optimized trading simulations. A former public-policy fellow at NITI Aayog and board member of a global nonprofit, she brings uncommon cross-sector experience in policy, education and tech.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Member (AMIE), Associate Member (AMIE) at Institution of Engineers of India (IEI), KolkataMatriculation, Science, Matriculation, Science at Little Flower School, JamshedpurMaster of Science - MS, Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology at Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological SciencesPost Graduate Diploma in Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics, Law, Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics, Law at National Law School of India UniversityDoctor of Business Administration, Data Science, Doctor of Business Administration, Data Science at Swiss School of Business and ManagementBachelor of Technology (B.Tech. [Hons.] ), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech. [Hons.] ), Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology JamshedpurMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
English, Hindi, French, Bengali, Marathi, Odia
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Github Skills (20)
journal7
open-access7
apache-kafka6
dictionary6
ensime6
sbt6
python6
scala6
message-queue6
academia6
apache-zookeeper6
apache-storm6
web-crawler6
creative-commons5
simulator2
Github contributions (5)
sonal-raj/STORM-NEO4J-REST-JAVA
Jun 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 5 months
sonal-raj/codeopt
Nov 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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