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SONAL DESAI

Redmond,WA

Summary

Seasoned Engineering Manager adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and making data-driven decisions. Experienced tech lead and architect with 18-year history in field. Clear communicator, decision maker and problem solver. Proven ability to establish vision, gather alignment, problem-solving with well-developed project management and leadership qualities to support product deliveries, vendor integration, positioning company and products for success.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Staff Security Engineer and Ops Manager

Uber
05.2019 - Current
  • Manage Cloud Security Operations Team (6 FTE) and lead architect for GCP Security at Uber.
  • Led Sept 2023 Security Incident Investigations: Led Cloud Security investigations reporting into Ring0. Worked internally and forensic partners to determining impact.
  • Reduced Shadow SaaS risk to Uber: Successful led Ops team to review and manage over 6K 3rd party
    application software , continuously bringing not reviewed count to 0.
  • Minimized unused GCP IAM permissions: Architected and developed solution to use GCP IAM
    Recommender in reducing over 4M over granted permissions in GCP.
  • Automated Systems in GCP: Architected and developed solution to detect
    incorrectly labeled GCS bucket reducing manual detection and resolution time from multiple weeks to within minutes. Automated pipeline for container image scanning.

Engineering Lead

Expedia Group
01.2017 - 05.2019
  • Architect and lead in Security Tech team responsible for entire Expedia Group.
  • Launched User Behavior Analysis(UBA) in Expedia Security: Led team of 8 FTE and 4 vendors to successfully deploy UBA product in AWS Cloud infrastructure.
  • Spearheaded Security Detection Platform: Architected and collaborated with Product/Technology leadership to align on detection platform for security logs and executing machine learning models
  • Architected and Lead Event Manager: Led team of 6 people to have one-stop shop for security events generated by multiple tools
  • Hosted in AWS Cloud this solution is scalable, extensible and resilient.

Senior Software Engineer

Expedia Group
01.2013 - 01.2017
  • Lead Engineer in Risk (Fraud) Platform for Expedia Group
  • Reduced over 60M in Customer Fraud year-over-year with double digit drop in Fraud rate
  • Core team player in creating brand new Risk Architecture from a monolith service to micro-services based scalable and reliable system with 99.9% availability and < 5s SLA
  • Designed and led Computation component: Created highly scalable and flexible key component for Risk Architecture which reduced manual effort in introducing new data signals from 1week to 1hr
  • Influencing Design Reviews: Provided guidance on E2E architecture for new Designs, mentored engineers on design focus, documentation, vision alignment
  • Lift and Shift to AWS: Designed and implemented move to AWS Cloud from on-prem
  • Facilitated shadow testing, data back-fill, cost saving analysis in AWS.

Software Engineer II

Expedia Group
01.2011 - 01.2013
  • Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality. Helped architect Foreign Exchange service from SOAP to REST API
  • Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures that brought manual effort from 3 months to 3 hours

Senior Software Engineer

Real Networks
01.2006 - 01.2011
  • Develop J2EE applications for Web (web-based service), PDA/Android (smart-phones, used Apple web-kit), WAP (handsets supporting WML) and IVR (Voice XML) channels
  • Create UNIX shell scripts to monitor system stability and to send SMS/Email notification in case of system problems
  • Design and Implement multi-threaded Charging Client application in Java NIO to talk to T-Mobile Pre-Paid Billing System

Business Analyst/ Consultant

Patni Computer Systems
01.2003 - 01.2006
  • Facilitated customer interaction, gather requirements, coordinated implementation with Off-Shore team (comprising of 6-8 members)
  • Proven project delivery and code quality across multiple clients
  • Key Contributors:
  • Gather requirements via interviews, elicitation workshops and meetings with Client and Vendors
  • Corroborate with Off-Shore team (comprising of 6-8 members), explain scope, discuss project requirements and consult on project delivery dates
  • Evaluate project dependencies and risk associated with each dependency.

Education

B.Tech - Information Technology

SNDT University
Mumbai, India
2002

Skills

  • Java, Mongo DB, GCP, AWS, Go, REST/gRPC, Elastic Search, Terraform, OpenDNS, Exabeam
  • Customer focus
  • Scalability and Resiliency
  • Public Speaking and Industry-wide presentations
  • Event Driven Architecture
  • Team Building
  • Managing Client?Vendor Relationships

Accomplishments

Google Next Presentation 2020 (Minimizing IAM Permissions), 2022 (Women Leaders in Security Panel), 2023 (Preventing Cloud Compromises using GCP's SCCP)

Certification

Google Cloud Professional Architect

Timeline

Staff Security Engineer and Ops Manager

Uber
05.2019 - Current

Engineering Lead

Expedia Group
01.2017 - 05.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Expedia Group
01.2013 - 01.2017

Software Engineer II

Expedia Group
01.2011 - 01.2013

Senior Software Engineer

Real Networks
01.2006 - 01.2011

Business Analyst/ Consultant

Patni Computer Systems
01.2003 - 01.2006

B.Tech - Information Technology

SNDT University

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