SONA SHETTY
Bangalore
Summary
Solutions Architect with extensive experience at Akamai Technologies, focusing on cloud architecture and web application security. Delivered a 40% reduction in page load times for Fortune 500 clients through effective leadership in pre-sales engagements. Skilled in cross-functional collaboration and technical sales enablement, consistently achieving results in challenging environments.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Solutions Architect
Akamai Technologies Ltd.
Bangalore
12.2015 - Current
- Designed and delivered custom cloud security and web performance architectures for Fortune 500 clients including Oracle, GoDaddy, improving availability and performance while reducing risk exposure.
- Served as technical owner for high-value pre-sales engagements, leading PoCs that converted into long-term contracts valued at millions.
- Enhanced client websites and applications, achieving up to 40% improvement in page load times and 25% reduction in downtime.
- Drove end-to-end project lifecycle including requirement gathering, architectural design, cost estimation, stakeholder communication.
- Spearheaded penetration testing setups on QA platforms, strengthening client readiness against security threats.
- Partnered with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support teams to resolve critical performance/security issues during trials and production.
- Conducted DevOps and Security training sessions for enterprise clients, enabling smoother CI/CD integrations with Akamai solutions.
- Selected for Akamai’s Internalship Program, gaining full-stack development exposure in Python, JavaScript, and Java.
- Automated integrations by developing Python scripts and Terraform configurations to seamlessly fit Akamai’s product suite into customers’ CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment efficiency and reducing manual errors by 30%.
- Partnered with enterprise customers to orchestrate Akamai deployments via CLI and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), enabling scalable, repeatable rollouts across multi-cloud environments.
- Designed and optimized EdgeWorkers solutions, leveraging Akamai’s serverless edge compute platform to implement custom business logic at the edge, enhancing performance, reducing latency, and improving end-user experience.
Software Engineer
Tesco Bank Ltd.
Bangalore
07.2013 - 11.2015
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams across time zones to deliver enterprise banking applications, ensuring high-quality releases.
- Developed and executed manual and automated test cases using Java + Selenium, reducing test cycle time by 30%.
- Partnered with business analysts and stakeholders to align system testing with business requirements, improving defect detection.
- Recognized with two “Spot Awards” for consistently exceeding delivery expectations and praised by UK-based clients for quality.
Education
Bachelor’s - Information Science
NMAMIT
NitteSkills
- Cloud architecture and multi-cloud strategy
- AWS and GCP
- Web application security and DDoS mitigation
- CDN optimization
- Penetration testing and risk management
- Requirement gathering and PoC ownership
- Solution demonstrations
- Technical sales enablement
- CI/CD integration
- API development
- Python, Java, and JavaScript
- Cross-functional coordination
- Client training and executive presentations
- Networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS)
- Selenium and Git
- Jenkins automation workflows
- Relational and NoSQL databases
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, 2020
- Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Architect, 2023
Affiliations
- Fitness enthusiast, runner - aiming for a marathon.
- Reader, both fiction & non-fiction. Mastery is one of my favorites
- Loves badminton.
Languages
English
First Language
Spanish
Beginner
A1
Accomplishments
- Multiple Akaledes from leadership showcasing "One Akamai" attitude in delivery exceptional performance.
Timeline
Senior Solutions Architect
Akamai Technologies Ltd.
12.2015 - Current
Software Engineer
Tesco Bank Ltd.
07.2013 - 11.2015
Bachelor’s - Information Science
NMAMIT