Sonal Kumar Sinha

About Sonal Kumar Sinha

Spearheaded the development and implementation of a strategic vision for the platform engineering team, leading a group of 35 engineers and architects to achieve a 40% increase in productivity and a significant improvement in team retention through targeted recruitment and mentorship programs. Spearheaded the transition to a cloud-native architecture, resulting in a 50% improvement in system scalability and a 25% reduction in infrastructure costs, while supporting over 10 million active users. Implemented a comprehensive DevOps/DevSecOps strategy, increasing deployment frequency by 60% and reducing deployment failures by 45%, while achieving a 99.9% uptime for critical platforms. Optimized resource allocation and processes, achieving a 20% reduction in operational costs while maintaining high-quality performance and reliability across platforms. Collaborated with product management, security, release management and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions, enhancing platform security and compliance, and reducing security incidents by 35% Established a culture of innovation, encouraging experimentation with emerging technologies and driving long-term strategic planning to anticipate industry trends and opportunities. Collaborated with executive leadership and various departments to align platform engineering goals with overall company strategy, enhancing cross-functional initiatives and driving business success. Expert in building and operating microservices environments using Cloud Native application architectures with a focus around security, performance, observability and cost. Proficient with container systems like Docker and container orchestration like Kubernetes, Istio Service Mesh and Enterprise Goo Mesh. Hands-on experience in Cloud Migration decision frameworks that span the choices around IaaS-PaaS-SaaS and Public vs Private clouds leading to a Replatform or Redesign or Refactor or Replace or Retire decision. Proficient with Cloud native technologies Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, Jenkins, Groovy, Ansible, Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Bitfluent. AWS network engineering including RouteTable, VPC Peering, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateways, VPCs, ELBs, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Direct Connect and VPC endpoints. Hands-on experience in migrating and refactoring a monolith to microservices at scale. Deep understanding of Event Driven, TDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga, Strangler design patterns. Extensive knowledge of how web semantics translate into a REST and GraphQL API.oo

Experience

1. Director Principal Architect

   Hertz

   Jun 2022 — Present · Denver, CO, US

Education

• Uttar Pradesh Technical University

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Drm
• Integration
• Spring
• Kubernetes
• Jmeter
• Jmx
• Maven
• Spring Boot
• Software Development
• Elasticsearch
• Ssis
• Flocker
• Redis
• Angularjs
• Rabbit Mq
• R
• Spring Batch
• Xml Schema
• Telecommunications
• Gocd
• Database Administration
• Splunk
• Java
• Sql
• Linux
• Hibernate
• Jpa
• Spring Reactor
• Databases
• Mongodb
• Ggplot
• Xml
• Database Design
• Apache Mesos
• Rest
• Xml Schema Definition (Xsd)
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Docker
• Terraform
• Soapui