About

Sonali Agrawal is a Software Engineer II at Checkout.com, London, with over 5 years of relevant experience in the industry. She is responsible for scaling up the payment gateway and working on smart routing of payment requests through the payment gateway of checkout.com. Prior to her current role, Sonali worked at Microsoft for 4 years as a Software Engineer, where she drove global invoicing programs and processed and saved billions of dollars by working in the Modern Invoicing system. Sonali's work majorly includes automation engineering using Python, Powershell, and Selenium, big data analysis on Kusto, application development, testing, deployments of monthly releases, infrastructure-related optimizations on Azure, performance enhancements, compliance tasks, reliability and availability improvements, livesite, direct communication with end-users to resolve issues, and user education. Sonali's passion for software engineering started in school when she was introduced to programming and continued through her college years, where she completed 4 internships, 7-8 major projects, and multiple small projects. She has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela. Sonali's experience includes working in several teams under the Commerce Financial Systems under Cloud+AI, Microsoft, which includes working with Volume Licensing System, Medium Business Solutions, developing frameworks to automate end-to-end tests, and product owner and developer of an internal tool to do data changes in a compliant manner in an RBAC manner (role-based access control). Sonali has a strong tech stack that includes software engineering, sentiment analysis, testing, Selenium, big data, ML, research scientist, Azure, backend, web, infrastructure, Python, and Java. She is also passionate about public speaking and has successfully pitched a product to the CVP and Chief Information Security Officer of Microsoft. Sonali is active on various platforms, including YouTube, CodersRank, GitHub, and StackOverflow, where she shares her knowledge and experiences with the community.