Sonu Toor
Software Engineer at Mercury
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSonu Toor is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building user-focused web and backend systems, currently at Mercury in Toronto. He has driven high-impact projects at fintech company Relay—leading a Partner Registration API responsible for the majority of monthly signups and a real-time decisioning service that unlocked significant weekly spend while maintaining p99 latency around 700ms. Comfortable across the full stack, Sonu has introduced TypeScript to frontend codebases, authored serverless Python APIs for market data, and helped architect event-driven Node.js services. He contributes to open-source, notably improving UX around tag inputs in a mental-health communication app, reflecting attention to detail in front-end behavior and tests. A curious problem-solver and mentor, he has a track record of translating customer needs into scalable, maintainable systems and guiding junior engineers through hiring and development. His background also includes classroom experience abroad, which strengthened his communication and coaching skills in technical teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Toronto Metropolitan University
Spanish, English, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
react-testing-library10
javascript10
jestjs10
react10
html7
scs4
sc4
webpack3
webpacker3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ifmeorg/ifme
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 31 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sonu primarily contributed to the `InputTag` component within the `ifme` repository, a mental health communication web application. Their work involved modifying the component's behavior, particularly regarding autosuggest functionality and the selection of tags, as evidenced by multiple commits focused on fixing rendering and selection issues. The user also made related changes to component tests, refining the test suite to align with the evolving functionality of `InputTag`.
mental-healthjestcapybarareact-testing-librarycommunity-driven
torontojs/speakfriend
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Breeding grounds for potential Speakfriend 2.0 codebase
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 months
codebasebreeding
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