Sony Natarajan

About Sony Natarajan

Technical Leadership & Team Management: Led geographically distributed engineering…

Experience

1. Technical Leadership Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

   Nielsen

   Dec 2015 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Led geographically distributed engineering teams across India and Eastern Europe, managing engineers across full stack development(web/mobile), database administration, datascience and devops disciplinesChampioned Agile SDLC practices, running all scrum ceremonies, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives, improving team collaboration and velocityDefined and refined engineering processes improving the development workflows, team velocity and cross functional collaboration Led the Entertainment Metadata team, overseeing the development and continuous improvement of the studio system suite of products including a client-facing web application, data curation system, security and user management services, bulk data management portal, internal/external APIs for data access and integrations, and a syndication platform for customizable data feeds and scheduling, using a diverse technology stack including C#, ASP.Net Core, MVC, SQL Server, React and AWS servicesAssessed and led the integration of LLMs, establishing a foundation for AI-driven product innovation and enhanced capabilitiesDesigned, architected, implemented and launched NLP solutions using Python, Flask and utilizing NLP libraries including SpaCy, LanguageTool, BART and Pattern for content summarization and proofreadingArchitected, developed and implemented automated pipelines for deployment, content processing and ID mapping using AWS services including Lambda, S3, ECS, ECR, ELB and RDSIntegrated security and SSO solutions, including Okta and Cognito, to improve system security and streamline user authentication

Education

• College of Engineering Trivandrum

  B-Tech, EEE

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Microsoft Access
• Java
• Microsoft Excel
• Asp.net
• Time Management
• Communication
• .net
• Oracle
• Vb.net
• Accounting
• Research
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Organization
• Business Analysis
• Sdlc
• Ajax
• Public Speaking
• Iis
• Data Analysis
• Pl/Sql
• Visual Basic
• Software Project Management
• Critical Thinking
• Teamwork
• Crystal Reports