Sonia Singla is a Developer Relations Engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience helping blockchain and web platform teams onboard and delight developers across the Cosmos and Web3 ecosystems. She has led documentation, tutorials, workshops, and hackathons for projects like Ignite (driving 30K+ monthly views) and supported major launches at Shardeum and QuickNode, troubleshooting RPCs and coordinating integrations with exchanges. A prolific open source contributor, Sonia has improved developer tooling and localization for notable projects such as Ignite CLI, Mozilla Common Voice, and Chaos Mesh, pairing backend Go cleanup with technical writing and i18n work. She founded The Cosmos Ladies to mentor and increase representation in Web3 and has deep browser-engine and CNCF community experience from Mozilla, Igalia, and Kubernetes release roles. Based in Germany, Sonia blends developer-first product sensibilities with hands-on engineering—often surfacing non-obvious developer pain points into clear docs, tooling, and launch playbooks.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Rose Mary Public School, Sunam, Sangrur
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at UIET Panjab University
Ignite is a CLI tool and hub designed for constructing Proof of Stake Blockchains rooted in Cosmos-SDK
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:79 reviews, 17 commits, 21 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sonia primarily focused on improving documentation within the repository. Their contributions involved updating the README file with correct links, improving command descriptions, and fixing and updating links in the documentation. The user also made updates to the documentation site configuration.
Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Contributions:18 commits, 2 comments, 2 issues in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sonia's contributions primarily involve updating the Punjabi (pa-IN) localization for the Common Voice project. They updated the `messages.ftl` file, which contains the translations for the user interface. These updates include adding and modifying translated strings related to various aspects of the application, such as general UI elements, home page content, and shortcut labels, thus improving the overall user experience for Punjabi speakers.
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