# Chitra Lekha > Staff Software Engineer | Cybersecurity & Cloud Innovator | Product Development | AI & Automation Enthusiast | Blockchain | Location: Milpitas, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chitralekha As a Staff Software Engineer at Sonet.io, I contribute to building a patented secure remote access platform that enhances enterprise compliance and prevents data leaks. My work focuses on designing and implementing features like OPA-based policy engines, real-time clipboard inspection, and audit logging, while also streamlining user onboarding with SSO integration into leading IDPs. With experience spanning 3.5+ years at Sonet.io and previous roles at Cisco, I specialize in scalable system development.My mission is to enable robust cybersecurity solutions that align with enterprise needs, ensuring secure, efficient, and compliant operations. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Sonet.io Jan 2022 – Present | California, United States Built secure remote access(patented) platform giving access to desktops and applications through any browser, designing the OPA-based policy engine, real-time clipboard inspection and audit logging—strengthening enterprise compliance, preventing data leaks, and streamlining onboarding through SSO integration with Leading IDP ### Software Development Engineer 3 @ Cisco Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Milpitas, California, United States ### Software Development Engineer 3 @ Symantec Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View ,California Enabled delivery of real time notification of user’s actions for SAAS application as per CASB policy, by developing Blocked Notification Services. Designed the Service to accept 60k websocket parallel connection and scale as the load increases. Java 1.8, Nginx, Netty 4.0,Spring ,Splunk, AWS lambda. Achieved automated cloud deployment solutions for deployment of cloud services through in house deployment framework.Integrated health monitoring, alerting through deployment. Successfully delivered configuration management client for pushing tenants sites/policy update to relevant application. CMS client listen to web socket connections for tenant update and callback to all registered application. ### Software Develpoment Engineer 2 @ Symantec Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View California Design, develop and maintain the scalable and highly available ICAP proxy service in AWS to handle streaming data for more than 10 million users a day. Served millions of transactions through skillful use of Java 1.8, Netty NIO Framework, Nginx Plus, and Splunk. Successfully automated SDWAN orchestration with API Gateway, AWS lambda and MySQL by developing Micro services for it. Facilitated the explicit proxy connectivity method by developing Proxy auto configuration service- Pac File Management Service (PFMS). The Service allowed user to configure pacf file for different locations to facilitate or bypass specific web destination, utilizing Nginx, Java, API Gateway, AWS lambda, Dynamo DB, Dax Cluster, and Splunk. ### Software Engineer @ Visa Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Provided a secured channel in the Visa Risk Management Web Service, for external issuer system to interact with visa core system, by designing new functionality for list of alerts download. Developed rest services methods for new alerts update for every retail transaction. Developed groovy script to automate several testing scenarios in the application, and used Node.js and HTML to develop several applications. Actively contributed to the adoption of new technologies and development best practices. ### Consultant @ Expicient Inc Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Were responsible for Call Center for commerce development and solution design. Consulting and Software Developer with expertise in Supply Chain Domain – IBM Sterling Distributed Order Management. Proficient in Sterling Multi-Channel Fulfillment Suite, with expertise in Sterling Distributed Order Management (DOM) and Customer Order Management (COM). ### SE @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 Application development and Support. ### System Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 Java/J2ee developer, Spring Hibernate, Struts2.0 Ejb.Jboss Weblogic ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in CyberSecurity Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science SRM University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fnuchitralekha --- Source: https://flows.cv/chitralekha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chitralekha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12