About

Sanal K Stephen is an experienced Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in technology. He has expertise in designing and developing scalable, resilient, and high-performing distributed software services using programming languages such as Java and Kotlin. Sanal also has experience in designing and developing enterprise as well as consumer search applications using technologies like Solr, Elasticsearch, and Lucene. Currently, Sanal is working as a Software Development Engineer III at Expedia. He is responsible for designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and high-performing typeahead platforms that serve the travel search needs of users of Expedia and other brands like Hotels.com and VRBO. Sanal has worked on typeahead search solutions for Hotels.com and improved relevancy by leveraging Solr/Lucene capabilities. He has also migrated services from on-premise data centers to AWS Cloud infrastructure and redesigned existing systems to improve performance and scalability. Sanal's technology and infrastructure expertise include Java, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Elasticcache, Kafka, AWS, and Kubernetes. Sanal has previously worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Expedia and as a Software Engineer at Photon. At Photon, he developed backend microservices for various client products and developed a multi-tenant search platform that can be used across multiple e-commerce sites. His technology stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Jersey, Jetty, Zuul, Hibernate, Solr, MySQL, and Oracle. Sanal holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology. He also completed his high school education from Anita Vidyalaya. Sanal's tech stack includes AWS, Search, Spring, Java, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, SQL, Spring Boot, Web, MySQL, Kafka, dotNET, MongoDB, ASP.NET, Microservices, Backend, Javascript, and Senior Software Engineer. Sanal has over 12 years of relevant experience in the field of software engineering. He is looking to be a part of a team that will take full advantage of his skills and learning ability, where he can utilize all his skills and expertise to make a positive contribution and personal commitment to his employer and organization.