About

Sunny Patneedi is a versatile engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience, including 5+ years in management. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Apple, where he is leading software engineering teams to deliver high-quality and scalable products that impact hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Sunny is an expert in people management and has experience in growing a team of software engineers, providing development, mentorship, and inspiration to exceed team deliverables. He is also skilled in coordinating and guiding architecture decisions across multiple teams. Sunny has partnered with cross-functional and cross-org engineering teams, business operations, design, product managers, legal, and business leaders, demonstrating his ability to work with stakeholders at any level, technical and non-technical. He has successfully managed multiple, competing priorities simultaneously and built a roadmap that aligns with the organization and company goals. Prior to joining Apple, Sunny worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce, where he was part of the Security Einstein Team, securing the Salesforce platform and building trust at scale with big data and machine learning. He has also worked on the Sales Cloud Tasks Team, building automation for Salesforce Lightning platform for tasks and activity timeline. Sunny has mentored, coached, and conducted interviews, demonstrating his leadership and technical skills. In addition to his professional experience, Sunny has a passion for travel and launched travelstellar.com, a platform to capture his travel stories, pictures, travel tips, and journey for himself and other travel enthusiasts. He has traveled over 10 countries in 110 days to experience new cultures and capture lifelong memories. Sunny has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and has completed Executive Education Programs from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. He has expertise in a range of technologies, including Salesforce, Spark, Data Engineering, Frontend, Backend, Java, Selenium, Big Data, Docker, Javascript, ML, TensorFlow, Kafka, Python, and Scala. With his relevant experience of 13.20 years, Sunny is a highly skilled engineering leader who can work with stakeholders at any level to deliver high-quality and scalable products.