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Sonika Shah

@sonikashah

Java backend engineer, 4+ years. I build data governance, distributed search, and secure financial workflows. 360+ merged open source PRs.

India

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At Collate, I build backend capabilities for an enterprise AI-for-data platform built on open-source OpenMetadata. I own Java 21 features from architecture through production across API, persistence, and search layers.

I shipped governance and RBAC across 50+ entity types, rebuilt a profiler query layer from 6–36 seconds to 22–28ms on 6.9M rows, and engineered resilient Elasticsearch/OpenSearch reindexing for 2,000-shard clusters. I deploy across SaaS, BYOC, and hybrid environments using AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.

Previously at NJ India Invest, I built portfolio management, onboarding, KYC, and transaction workflows for capital-market clients. I also contribute to OpenMetadata, with 360+ merged pull requests, and build a personal microservices-based data quality and observability platform.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Engineer

Current

Collate

Feb 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)

Owns backend features from architecture to production in Java 21 across API, persistence, and search layers. Designed and shipped governance features and RBAC across 50+ entity types, and rebuilt the profiler query layer cutting API response time from 6-36s to 22-28ms.

Java 21+Spring Boot Dropwizard Elasticsearch OpenSearch Terraform AWS Kubernetes Docker RBAC MCP Claude Code Cursor Copilot Sentry SonarQube

Java Developer

NJ India Invest

Jun 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 year 8 months)

Designed and built Spring Boot and Spring MVC modules and RESTful APIs for a Portfolio Management System. Delivered onboarding, KYC, and client transaction workflows, and improved performance through SQL query tuning and schema optimization.