Sonali D'souza is a Software Engineer II based in Seattle with nine years of experience building accessible, user-focused web applications and backend services. She has delivered features and APIs at Microsoft—including contributions to the Azure .NET SDK and the Content Moderator service—and improved accessibility and analytics at consumer-facing companies like Nordstrom and Likewise. Her work spans front-end frameworks, REST API design, cloud integrations, and SDK generation, with a knack for turning accessibility and compliance requirements into practical product improvements. At Microsoft she helped elevate Content Moderator into a top cognitive service and automated its testing across regions, showing attention to reliability at scale. Sonali pairs strong engineering delivery with product sensibility—she has driven onboarding to analytics platforms and vendor integrations that improve user experience and observability. She holds an MS in Computer Science from Seattle University and a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, combining formal CS training with broad production experience.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Seattle University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 9.25 cgpa, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 9.25 cgpa at NMAMIT,Nitte (Mangalore ,Karnataka)
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Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sonali primarily contributed to the Content Moderator SDK within the azure/azure-sdk-for-net repository. Their commits focused on implementing and modifying APIs related to content moderation, including screen text, language detection, and SSN detection. They also updated the generated models and project configuration, indicating involvement in the underlying API client generation and maintenance. This work appears to be focused on the backend logic and API definitions for the Content Moderator service.
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Sonali D'souza - Software Engineer II at Microsoft