# Shobana Varadarajan > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shobana Self-motivated professional software engineer with 9+ years of experience and a graduate in computer science and practical data engineering experience, currently assisting team to solve large-scale complex technical problems at Meta through the development of Identity and Access Management and security systems. Skilled in a wide-range of programming languages and tech stacks from a diverse experience including web development, ETL processes and mobile applications using a variety of programming languages including Python, PHP and Java. Life-long learner who enjoys putting new skills and frameworks into practice at Meta utilized JavaScript, React, and GraphQL to implement new-employee life-cycle management tooling. I enjoy leading teams as a senior developer to achieve strong business outcomes through collaborating with cross-functional product, business, and engineering teams. I am a staunch advocate for software engineering principles and best practices including DevOps, Agile methodologies, code reviews, documentation and more. One of the things I most enjoy is mentoring junior developers and onboarding them so they can ramp up and contribute to projects quickly and effectively. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2018 – Present | Menlo Park, California • Developed tools and services for Identity and Access Management platform. Worked on employee & contingent workforce life cycle. Helped build onboarding and offboarding tools using React, Hack backend with GraphQL server. • Build integrations into third party SAAS applications to manage lifecycle of all Meta employees and contingent worker information by leveraging Python and MySQL. • Build Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations into third party applications using SAML, OAuth, and OIDC for Meta employees. • Streamlined and maintained multi-factor authentication (2FA) tool. Built custom validation rules to ensure business logic was properly integrated. Extensively tested before production deployments. • Collaborated with cross-functional business and technology teams to understand requirements, develop technical scoping documents, and refine future product features and roadmaps for IAM tools. • Actively contributing to the external worker business onboarding which roughly scales to over 100k workers. • Provided onboarding processes to new team members to ensure smooth ramp-up to quickly contribute. ### Student Assistant @ Wayne State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Detroit Area • Assisted the students with their assignments. • Collaborated Teacher on lessons and assignments. • Observed and Learned about classroom management, content instruction, and curriculum. • Taught brief lessons when appropriate. • Managed the class independently whenever needed. • Guided students when necessary. ### Software Engineer @ Wipro Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 • Modernized legacy SAP systems by developing code packages, tools, and coordinating communication between various stakeholders to ensure action items were closed and deliverables were completed on-time by using BackOfficeAssociates - Cransoft tool • Developed enhancements in “Merchandise Business Intelligence Application” for the Target Corporation by incorporating upgraded database and schema according to business requirements • Aligned development teams on troubleshooting, development best practices, and system deployment procedures • Orchestrated creation of Target Corporation’s “Merchandise Analytics Sales Foundation Project” to enable business analysts perform sales forecasting using DB2, Ascential DataStage ETL, and Control – M ### Test Engineer @ Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Ltd Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 • Applied Function flow testing for PREMIA Tool which was developed for internal purpose. • Tested whether the SI calculation is being correctly produced or not. • Migrated from paper files to Database collection. • Tested whether the migration was successful. • Guided and trained end users. • Master maintained the tool. ### Project Intern @ Wipro Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 • Developed Balance Score Card, a mini tool for internal purpose to automate the employee appraisal and rating process in Wipro– RCTG business unit. • Appraisal details are fed to the tool from Supervisors and generate custom reports based on management requirement such as top performers, average performers. • Used VB.Net and MySQL to achieve the requirement. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Wayne State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Sathyabama University Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shobanavaradarajan --- Source: https://flows.cv/shobana JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shobana/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22