About

Sonal Kumar is a highly skilled Software Engineer III at Walmart, with over 5 years of relevant experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. She is a dedicated and passionate backend developer, responsible for creating microservices using Java, Spring, Apache Kafka, Redis, Aerospike, and various other technologies. She has extensive experience with distributed systems and enjoys keeping up-to-date with the latest changes in the industry. Before joining Walmart, Sonal worked as an SDE-II at Snapdeal, where she was involved in building and improving highly scalable real-time streaming data pipelines for streaming ETL and real-time analytics. She was also the primary owner of the API layer of the Data Platform, serving data and handling 80k TPS. Her experience at Snapdeal also included working on a user personalization system, with transformation, correlation, sessionization, and enrichment of events in real-time, with experiment capability. She used technologies such as Java, Kafka, Aerospike, Spark, Spring, and InfluxDB. Sonal also worked as an SDE-I at Airtel, where she worked on micro-service architecture for App and Web teams. She was involved in various Reverse Integration Projects like OYO, Grofers, and OLA. She implemented OAuth2.0 protocol, which provides Authorization flow and grants access to their resources to other servers. She also developed a dynamic Content Management System from scratch for Airtel Payment Bank. Her technologies stack at Airtel included Java, Kafka, Aerospike, Spring, Redis, and MySQL. Sonal is highly skilled in a variety of technologies, including Software Engineering, Backend, Java, Kafka, Spring, Redis, Microservices, Spark, ETL, MySQL, and Web. She is a dedicated and hardworking individual who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow.