# Erika Dsouza

> Senior Software Engineer at Tiktok

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/erikadsouza

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Cloud Native Platforms

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Compute on Azure Stack Edge

### IBM Watson Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Boston
•	Engineered a system using Elasticsearch and Segment/Amplitude to track analytics of Watson services which helped gain insights and drive client marketing campaigns. 
•	Development of Swagger Codegen project to programmatically generate SDKs which are open sourced: 
https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud 
•	Developed a system that auto-provisions service instances and directs users to the tooling UI resulting in 60% more usage of Watson services
•	Built Watson dashboard in the IBM Cloud console using React-Redux and enhancement of demo applications

### Software Engineer/ Robotics Intern @ IBM Watson Innovation Labs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Watson Labs, Austin, TX
• Worked on a cognitive platform named Intu which uses a combination of Watson services to build a cognitive lab
• Contributed immensely to the development of Intu for Tjbot which is a bot running on a raspberry pi
• Enhanced visual recognition to support accessory detection and gaze recognition to avoid interrupts by robots

### Graduate Research Assistant at Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics @ Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bloomington, Indiana Area
• Analysis of genomic data through bioinformatics algorithms and providing container management solutions on docker

### Associate Instructor @ Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Teaching Assistant for Data Mining course
•  Tutored students during office hours and lectures to help them understand the course topics
•  Created and graded assignments and exam papers

### IBM Watson Software Development Intern @ IBM Watson
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
• Implemented APIs for Chaos Monkey application which checks the resiliency of IBM Watson Platform Services
• Customized the application for Softlayer infrastructure and logging of events in mongodb
• Added functionalities like on-demand termination, replay and recovery of the platform, and user authentication

### Senior Software Engineer @ Persistent Systems
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Goa, India
•	Built centrally managed Openstack-based private cloud from scratch
•	Automated hardware ordering from Softlayer, and validated hardware specifics using python
•	Member of the team automating the cloud instance deployment process using chef, virsh, python, shell script and Jenkins, which reduced the build period from 10 days to at most 3 days
•	Implemented tempest tests using paramiko to test OpenStack cluster functionality
•	Debugged production/test environment defects during emergencies and patched code for continuous smooth performance

### Software Engineer @ Persistent Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Goa, India
•	Developed REST API using Apache WINK
•	Implemented back-end code using Java/ J2EE
•	Utilized JPA as the ORM technique for accessing DB2
•	Implemented cloud-based messaging and workflow services using ActiveMQ
•	Developed fabric scripts for automated deployment of application
•	Performed unit tests using Junit, PowerMock and DbUnit
•	Designed and implemented automated test cases using TestNG and REST assured tool
•	Delegated responsibilities of the scrum master to design code structure and lead a team of 5


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
Goa University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/erika-dsouza-18a38631

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Last updated: 2026-03-22