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Surabhi Sonkhaskar

San Jose,CA

Summary

Software Engineer with 10 years of progressive experience designing and optimizing distributed systems. Proven track record of building scalable cloud services, improving performance through code optimization, and delivering reliable connectivity solutions. Adept at driving projects end-to-end, from architecture to production rollout.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Software Engineer

Zscaler Inc.
San Jose, California
09.2019 - 09.2025
  • Architected and developed a sidebar service from scratch, now a core part of Zscaler Cloud, which offloaded critical processing from the Cloud Authority (CA) and improved system throughput and response times.
  • Led development and integration of cloud, branch, and edge connectors, strengthening interoperability across Zscaler’s cloud architecture and enabling scalable enterprise deployments.
  • Diagnosed and resolved complex memory leaks in legacy systems, refactored critical code paths, and improved runtime efficiency, leading to measurable performance gains and greater platform stability.
  • Designed and executed comprehensive testing for Zscaler’s persistent cache, ensuring reliability, faster data retrieval, and seamless rollout across production environments.

Software Engineer

Larsen & Toubro Infotech
01.2019 - 01.2022
  • Migrated the entire application used for generating financial reports written in C++ to Java. The platform independent and modularized code made the system scalable.
  • Increased the speed up by 30% by developing Java based utilities for regular business tasks like generating and analyzing daily business reports.
  • Developed a car-pooling system for employees to be able to reach out to other employees living nearby or commuting through the same route as theirs.
  • Technologies used: C++, Java (Spring, Hibernate), Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, Tableau, HTML5, CSS3

Software Engineering Intern

Zscaler Inc.
05.2019 - 09.2019
  • Built and integrated the custom Kafka connector to send messages from one TCP socket to another in order to speed up the system update broadcast in the core architecture of the Zscaler cloud.
  • Technologies used: Kafka, Java, C, and Networking.

Education

MS - Computer Engineering

San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
12.2019

B.E. - Computer Engineering

Savitribai Phule Pune University
Pune, India
05-2014

Skills

  • Java, Python, C/C
  • HTTP , TCP/IP, DNS
  • MongoDB, MySQL, PSQL

Projects

Social Media Analysis to Determine Electoral Viewpoints Using Machine Learning, 02/2019, Present, Analyze text and emojis extracted from social media post to predict the dominating sentiment during upcoming Indian Elections., TF, Jupyter Notebooks, Google Colab, Tableau, MongoDB HideIn, 02/2018, 05/2018, Developed a full stack web application for listing apartments for International students moving to the USA., AngularJS, MongoDB, Tableau, CSS3, HTML5 Linux Kernel Module for Listing Tasks, 02/2018, 05/2018, Created a kernel module in Linux kernel to make interaction with the kernel easy., C, Linux Network Traffic Analyzer, 02/2018, 05/2018, Responsible for capturing packets through a passive sniffer (Wireshark) and creating a pcap file for the inspection of all the packets and parsing the packets to retrieve information using the PyGeoIP which maps the IP address to its physical geographical location., Wireshark, Tshark, PyGEOIP, DPKT Distributed Banking System, 08/2017, 12/2017, Developed distributed banking system using C and socket programming that could serve up to 5 users simultaneously and efficiently., C, TCP/IP, Socket Programming, Distributed System

Publications And Awards

  • Published research paper, 'Identifying Fraudulent Activities over Online Application through Clickstream analysis using Hadoop and Data Visualization' in the journal of International Conference on Convergence and Technology.
  • Awards, Won 'Best Performer' & 'Pat on the Back' from Leadership teams and Clients for providing effective solutions to business problems.

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer

Zscaler Inc.
09.2019 - 09.2025

Software Engineering Intern

Zscaler Inc.
05.2019 - 09.2019

Software Engineer

Larsen & Toubro Infotech
01.2019 - 01.2022

MS - Computer Engineering

San Jose State University

B.E. - Computer Engineering

Savitribai Phule Pune University
Surabhi Sonkhaskar