Senior Software Engineer with experience building security analytics platforms, SIEM migration tools, and cloud-scale applications. Skilled in Python, Angular, React, and distributed systems, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and platform modernization. Proven track record of delivering complex features, resolving production issues, and mentoring engineers in high-impact enterprise environments.
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Hi, I’m
Shreya Kapadia
Ahmedabad
Summary
Overview
5
Years of Professional Experience
Work History
Crest DataAhmedabad
Senior Software Engineer
01.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience in building security analytics platforms, SIEM migration frameworks, and observability tooling. Skilled in Python, React, Angular, TypeScript and CI/CD automation, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and system modernization.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain high-performance software systems, delivering complex features and resolving production issues to uphold software quality through agile development and automated testing.
Crest Data | Senior Software Engineer (E3-E4)8 Months
Google SecOps – Security Analytics Platform
Job overview
- Tech Stack: Angular, Polymer
- Implemented new analytics and visualization capabilities, including an 'Activity Over Time' chart using eCharts and enhancements to event table interactions, such as cell menu actions and enriched status indicators.
- Designed and implemented a new Angular-based time range picker, supporting relative time queries and improving search flexibility for security investigations.
- Enhanced UI responsiveness and usability through dynamic filter chip rendering, tooltip enhancements, and interaction improvements such as pagination persistence and column resizing.
- Contributed to modernizing the event table architecture used for security event analysis.
- Authored technical design documents for new features and collaborated with UX designers, product managers, and engineering leads to define and refine feature requirements and implementation strategies.
- Investigated and resolved customer-facing issues, including inconsistencies in event viewer data and permission handling in federated search scenarios.
- Mentored 5+ engineers on debugging production issues, understanding search architecture, and navigating the codebase, fostering team skill development.
- Delivered knowledge sharing sessions on Angular 21 major features and the Google SecOps search architecture to accelerate team onboarding and improve engineering practices.
- Impact: Contributed to the modernization and reliability of the Google SecOps search experience by migrating legacy Polymer components to Angular, implementing analytics features, improving UI responsiveness, and resolving customer-impacting issues in the security event analysis workflow.
Crest Data | Software Engineer (E3-E4)6 Months
Universal SIEM Migration
Job overview
- Tech Stack: Python, FastAPI, React, Redux, React Router, MongoDB, Docker
- Architected a unified backend framework to consolidate multiple SIEM migration tools into a single platform capable of migrating assets across systems such as Splunk, Google Chronicle, Datadog, and Elastic.
- Developed wrapper infrastructure and shared migration logic to enable a single utility supporting migrations across different SIEM platforms.
- Implemented the Abstract Factory design pattern to modularize migration workflows for dashboards, alerts, and saved searches, enabling easier extensibility for new SIEM integrations.
- Built reusable frontend infrastructure and shared UI components in React to support multiple migration flows while reducing duplication across SIEM-specific implementations.
- Migrated the existing Elastic to Splunk migration tool from AngularJS to React, restoring functionality and aligning with the new framework architecture.
- Mentored engineers on migration platform, guiding them through backend architecture, Pydantic validation, and SIEM-specific UI workflows.
- Impact: Designed a unified migration framework enabling automated migration between multiple SIEM platforms, reducing the need for tool-specific implementations and enabling scalable support for new SIEM integrations.
Crest Data | Software Engineer (E3-E4)6 Months
SIEM Automation Platform
Job overview
- Tech Stack: Python, FastAPI, React, Redux, React Router, MongoDB, Docker
- Developed functionality to automatically generate YARA-L queries from Splunk queries and enable automated migration of Splunk dashboards, alerts, and saved searches.
- Designed and implemented a migration validation system that compares query results between Splunk and Google Chronicle, using MongoDB-backed analytics and a React-based UI to visualize the accuracy of migrated queries.
- Built data ingestion capabilities to transfer relevant data from Splunk to Chronicle, enabling side-by-side validation of query outputs across platforms.
- Implemented migration tracking and reporting features, providing partial migration status updates and an assessment dashboard to visualize successfully migrated and failed assets with detailed error messages.
- Automated Splunk configuration tasks through Python scripts that generated alerts and saved searches, decreasing manual migration effort.
- Improved developer productivity and code quality by introducing GitLab MR templates, linting improvements, and Ruff formatting standards across the repository.
- Leveraged Google Chronicle APIs and modern React ecosystem libraries (Redux, React Router, Material UI) to build scalable migration tooling.
- Impact: Accelerated SIEM migration workflows by developing an automated platform to convert Splunk queries and assets into Google Chronicle compatible formats while enabling migration validation, reporting, and operational visibility.
Crest Data | Software Engineer (E2-E3)1.5 Years
IT Service Intelligence-Infrastructure Management
Job overview
- Tech Stack: Python, React, Oracle, MySQL, RTL, WDIO
- Designed and implemented a bulk deletion capability for 1M+ retired entities in ITSI, improving system performance and data lifecycle management; authored the Technical Design Document (TDD) and aligned the solution with Splunk stakeholders.
- Developed platform enhancements and backend utilities, including custom commands in SIM TA to clean obsolete libraries and improve system maintainability.
- Implemented cross-platform PDF export functionality for ITE-Learn by identifying and integrating alternative Python libraries compatible across operating systems.
- Contributed to entity normalization and data processing improvements within ITSI to enhance the consistency of monitored entities.
- Led platform modernization efforts, including upgrading to React Router v6, migrating to Python 3.9, and updating UDF dependencies to maintain compatibility with newer libraries.
- Improved security posture by resolving FOSSA vulnerabilities across Splunk apps and add-ons, including IT Essentials Learn, Database TA, and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Add-on.
- Investigated and resolved critical customer production issues, including licensing failures that blocked product usage and data ingestion inconsistencies in SIM TA, restoring system stability and customer access.
- Upgraded integrations with Splunk Python SDK, solnlib, and SignalFx libraries, including implementing custom SDK modifications to support a specialized cloud environment.
- Mentored 2+ engineers on codebase navigation, debugging techniques, modular inputs, and dashboard development, while guiding teammates on Performance, Scalability, and Reliability testing processes to improve team efficiency and code quality.
- Configured and validated Oracle and MySQL database integrations for DBTA, successfully enabling connectivity testing and resolving setup challenges that had previously blocked validation.
- Impact: Enhanced performance, security, and maintainability of Splunk monitoring applications by delivering large-scale backend features, modernizing dependencies and frameworks, improving test reliability, and resolving critical customer production issues.
Crest Data | Software Engineer (E0-E1)1 Year
IT Service Intelligence - CloudFirst/RestartLess
Job overview
- Tech Stack: Python, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab Templates, Artifactory, Puppet
- Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab templates, enabling automated build, test, and deployment workflows for multiple Splunk applications and add-ons.
- Diagnosed and resolved a critical CI/CD pipeline outage caused by a yanked requests dependency (v2.32.0), restoring build execution by updating internal packages (api-filesave, api-iconcollection) and aligning dependency versions.
- Strengthened repository security by integrating Gitleaks with pre-commit hooks in GitLab pipelines, enabling automatic detection and prevention of secret leaks.
- Implemented Renovate Bot automation for tracking new releases of Splunk UDF libraries, generating merge requests with appropriate reviewers to streamline dependency management.
- Provisioned environment stacks for testing and validation, improving the reliability of development and QA environments.
- Managed release processes for Splunk apps and add-ons, including ITSI, ITE-Learn, DBTA, and SIM TA, ensuring timely deployments and adherence to project timelines.
- Supported Artifactory migration and Python 3.9 upgrades, ensuring compatibility across services and build pipelines.
- Assisted with restartless upgrade testing for ITSI cloud deployments and collaborated with teams on Puppet-based cloud task automation.
- Impact: Improved CI/CD reliability and security for multiple Splunk applications by introducing automated dependency management, secret detection, and resolving critical build pipeline failures that blocked developer workflows.
BISAG-NGandhinagar
Software Engineer Intern
06.2021 - 08.2021
Job overview
- Tech Stack: Python, Django, Jinja2, HTML5, CSS3
- Developed a full-stack bike rental application using Python and Django, incorporating features like user management, bike listings, rentals, and availability tracking to enhance user experience.
- Created dynamic, responsive, user-friendly interfaces using Jinja2 templating, HTML, and CSS to improve overall application usability.
Education
Birla Vishwakarma MahavidyalayaVallabh Vidyanagar, Anand
B.Tech from Computer Engineering
05-2022
University Overview
GPA: Cumulative Percentage Index (CPI) of 9.14
Government Polytechnic for GirlsSurat
Diploma from Computer Engineering
06-2019
University Overview
GPA: Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 9.89
R.S.M. Poonawala Sarvajanik Experimental SchoolSurat
Secondary School
03-2016
University Overview
GPA: 90.17%
Skills
- Python
- Django
- Flask
- FastAPI
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Angular
- NextJS
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Jinja2
- Handlebars
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite3
- Oracle
- Google SecOps
- Splunk
- WebdriverIO
- React Testing Library
- Jasmine
- Git
- GitLab
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Postman
- VS Code
- Jira
- Confluence
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- Crest Data Systems recognized me as the first-place winner in the 'Ideathon' event held at the BU level.
- Honored with the prestigious 'CAP Award' twice for exceptional dedication to project deliverables.
- Published a technical article on cybersecurity practices, 'Cybersecurity Methodologies for Security,' on the Medium platform.
Certification
React - The Complete Guide 2025 (including Next.js, Redux) - https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-3ad5803c-0248-41d2-be47-18ed3bedd6df/
Python 3 Programming Specialization on Coursera -
https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/specialization/certificate/3PLCE3T3QGHQ
Django Ecommerce | Build Advanced Django Web Application -
https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-d5089fd5-f491-43bb-a797-3b4acab61e05/
Learn to Program in JavaScript: Beginner
to Pro on Udemy - https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-
20883cb7-15be-41be-a108-9bc6e1622c37/
Introduction to Git and GitHub on Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/JMH2TRNPZ92U
Languages
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Gujarati
Native
Native
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Crest Data
01.2022 - Current
Software Engineer Intern
BISAG-N
06.2021 - 08.2021
Google SecOps – Security Analytics Platform
Crest Data | Senior Software Engineer (E3-E4)
Universal SIEM Migration
Crest Data | Software Engineer (E3-E4)
SIEM Automation Platform
Crest Data | Software Engineer (E3-E4)
IT Service Intelligence-Infrastructure Management
Crest Data | Software Engineer (E2-E3)
IT Service Intelligence - CloudFirst/RestartLess
Crest Data | Software Engineer (E0-E1)
Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidyalaya
B.Tech from Computer Engineering
Government Polytechnic for Girls
Diploma from Computer Engineering
R.S.M. Poonawala Sarvajanik Experimental School
Secondary School
Qualities
Qualities
- Exemplary Leadership Skills
- Highly Organized
- Collaborative
- Extreme Accountability and Ownership
- Initiative-Driven
- Delivering Positive Customer Engagement
- Rapidly Assimilates New Information
- Positive and Proactive Mindset
- Proficient In Effective Problem-Solving
- Impeccable Time Management