Summary
Sonali Mahajan is a software developer with 8 years of experience building scalable backend systems, distributed architectures, and cloud-native services across ad-tech, enterprise, and telecom domains. She specializes in Java and Golang, Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kafka, and Kubernetes, with hands-on expertise in multiple databases including PostgreSQL, Oracle, SAP HANA and Couchbase. Known for improving system reliability and security, she has driven initiatives like SQL query masking, custom connection pooling, and Kafka-based autoscaling that reduced downtime and message loss. Sonali pairs strong observability and DevOps instincts with mentoring experience, having guided students in data structures and contributed to engineering efficiency at companies like Cisco, Amdocs, Index Exchange, and Rakuten. Based in Tokyo, she brings a pragmatic focus on operational resilience and performance tuning that helps teams ship dependable services at scale. A practical problem-solver, she often designs solutions end-to-end—from monitoring and scaling strategies to secure database handling—rather than delivering isolated components.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of computer applications, Computer Science, 75%, Bachelor of computer applications, Computer Science, 75% at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
Master of Computer Applications, Computer Science, 8.04, Master of Computer Applications, Computer Science, 8.04 at National Institute of Technology Karnataka