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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
Nitte

Skills

  • 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
SONA SHETTY