SAWANI SOMAN
Gilroy,CA
Summary
Technical infrastructure and integration engineer with extensive experience in SAML/SSO onboarding and SSL/TLS lifecycle management. Recognized for diagnosing complex integration issues across financial institutions, leveraging AI to enhance troubleshooting efficiency and support team adoption of innovative practices.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Infrastructure Integration Engineer
SavvyMoney
California
05.2020 - Current
- Serve as a primary technical engineer for 100+ financial-institution partners, leading onboarding and complex integrations across digital banking platforms and regulated production environments.
- Specialize in SAML/SSO partner onboarding, owning technical discovery, metadata and certificate exchange, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, UAT, production go-live, and ongoing production support.
- Lead certificate and SSL/TLS lifecycle work across partner environments, including certificate updates, signing/encryption requirements, expiration risk, configuration changes, and production-impact analysis.
- Work across AWS infrastructure, DNS, SSL/TLS, Cloudflare, load balancers, routing, and multi-environment architecture, collaborating with DevOps and engineering teams when integration issues cross infrastructure boundaries.
- Troubleshoot complex production and pre-production integration issues across SAML, OpenID/OIDC, REST APIs, SSL/TLS, certificates, encryption keys, GCM encryption, DNS, and environment-specific configurations.
- Acted as the primary technical point of contact during partner calls, collaborating with banks, credit unions, digital banking providers, and internal engineering teams to isolate issues and drive timely production resolutions.
- Implemented automation for certificate and integration processes, establishing SAML certificate-expiry tracking and proactive telemetry to reduce manual monitoring and mitigate production issues.
- Integrated AI and automation into workflows for integration, certificate management, and operations, improving troubleshooting speed and scalability.
- Use AI in day-to-day and live troubleshooting workflows to accelerate technical research, investigate unfamiliar errors, surface relevant technical knowledge, explore root causes, and evaluate potential approaches while applying engineering judgment to final decisions.
- Help teammates adopt AI for practical engineering work by sharing use cases and approaches for troubleshooting, research, documentation, knowledge discovery, and recurring technical tasks.
- Continue to support SOC 2 and TransUnion audits by providing technical evidence, documentation, control context, and responses related to integrations, infrastructure, encryption, and security practices.
- Translated technical integration and security issues into clear communication for partners and leadership, articulating risk, business impact, ownership, and next steps.
Security Engineer / Security Integration Engineer
SavvyMoney
California
05.2020 - Current
- Introduced and implemented Orca Security and performed vulnerability analysis using Orca and Snyk, establishing systematic cloud and application-security visibility and remediation practices.
- Integrated New Relic Vulnerability Management with Snyk and Orca to improve centralized visibility and streamline vulnerability-management workflows.
- Developed processes for vulnerability analysis, prioritization, remediation, and collaboration with engineering teams, enhancing overall security posture.
- Managed workflows for TransUnion BCS project, implementing PGP encryption and decryption processes to secure sensitive data transmissions.
- Developed SAML certificate-expiration automation to reduce manual monitoring and support proactive risk management.
- Designed and executed automation for MeridianLink and Temenos integrations, facilitating scalable onboarding of Loan Origination System partners across beta and production environments.
- Designed and partially implemented automation for OpenID partner integrations, collaborating with stakeholders on requirements, testing, and iterative improvements.
- Coordinated with DevOps on infrastructure improvements, implementing specialized Nginx configurations and role-management enhancements; supported BI during audits and integrations, ensuring seamless Tableau connectivity.
- Facilitated SOC 2 and TransUnion audits by conducting auditor interviews, presenting technical evidence, documenting processes, validating controls, and responding to audit inquiries.
DevOps Engineer
SavvyMoney
California
05.2020 - Current
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub for efficient deployment on AWS EC2.
- Managed AWS services including EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, CloudFront, RDS, and databases.
- Automated infrastructure and operational tasks using Python scripting to enhance deployment speed and reliability.
- Supported AWS-native infrastructure automation, monitoring, networking, and security in DevOps role.
- Developed Python microservices using Flask, MongoDB, REST APIs, and JWT authentication.
- Configured SSL subdomain integrations by managing server settings and updating certificates to ensure secure communications.
- Contributed to infrastructure discussions as AWS administrator during platform evolution.
- Managed database administration, server patching, access management, and troubleshooting to maintain system stability and security.
DevOps Engineer
Hitachi America Ltd.
09.2019 - 03.2020
- Formulated Ansible playbooks to automate application deployment on various servers.
- Created Dockerfile and Docker Compose files to streamline application installation across multiple factories.
- Developed Logstash pipeline with MQTT, XML, and Elasticsearch plugins for efficient data indexing.
- Integrated ELK stack with Node-RED to manage data flows in batches.
DevOps Engineer
HCL America Inc.
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Designed automated deployment pipelines, enabling faster and more reliable software delivery.
- Developed Ansible-based deployment automation, enhancing consistency across server environments.
- Built containerized deployment workflows with Docker/Docker Compose and created Logstash/Elasticsearch pipelines for streamlined application and operational data management.
- Implemented monitoring solutions that improved system performance and ensured operational reliability.
- Collaborated with development teams to streamline code integration processes, reducing deployment times and minimizing errors.
Software Developer
Extendime Software Solutions Inc.
01.2018 - 12.2018
- Developed software solutions using Java and Python programming languages.
- Automated AWS infrastructure and application deployment with Terraform and Ansible, enhancing monitoring and data pipeline efficiency using Grafana.
- Developed Jenkins deployment pipelines with Groovy and Python scripting, supporting seamless Docker/Kubernetes-based deployments.
- Maintained and updated applications, enhancing functionality and user experience.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define and refine project requirements and specifications.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Texas At San Antonio
San Antonio, TXSkills
SSL/TLS configuration
- X509 certificate management
- Vulnerability management
- Cloud architecture
- Cloudflare integration
- Technical troubleshooting
- JIRA project management
- Technical documentation and communication
- Team collaboration
- Infrastructure automation
Timeline
Infrastructure Integration Engineer
SavvyMoney
05.2020 - Current
Security Engineer / Security Integration Engineer
SavvyMoney
05.2020 - Current
DevOps Engineer
SavvyMoney
05.2020 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Hitachi America Ltd.
09.2019 - 03.2020
DevOps Engineer
HCL America Inc.
01.2018 - 01.2019
Software Developer
Extendime Software Solutions Inc.
01.2018 - 12.2018
Master of Science - Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Texas At San Antonio