# Sonika Tayade

> Software Engineer @ Magical

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sonika

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Magical
Jan 2025 – Present
https://www.getmagical.com/agentic-ai

### Software Engineer @ Andesite
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
- Utilized React, TypeScript, MaterialUI, Python FastAPI, and MongoDB to create various E2E features for an AI-driven threat analysis platform used by security analysts
- Prototyped alert visualizations using visx
- Interfaced with product and data science teams to help ideate and design product features

### Software Engineer @ Paramount
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Developed a tool to analyze user interactions on Paramount landing pages, using React, MUI, Python FastAPI, and MySQL.

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Utilized React, JS, Relay/GraphQL, and php to build a dashboard for Facebook creators to easily view and accept/reject monetization requests on their reels from brands.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Developed a feature in Azure Machine Learning Studio that gives feature developers early customer insight into their features by allowing customers to optin/out of new features and easily provide feedback
- Integrated 2 preview features into the feature
- Created an Application Insights dashboard that allows feature developers to easily visualize telemetry of their feature
- Wrote unit tests and E2E tests
- Wrote design doc detailing impact of feature, telemetry and metrics for success, and implementation plan, and helped in UI design of feature
- Used React, JavaScript, Cypress, Enzyme, Kusto query language, Git

### UX Team Member @ Design for America
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Created a design prototype of an app that allows defendants to better connect with lawyers, community members, and support services during the pretrial process
- Conducted primary and secondary research through interviews with various topic experts

### Coding Team Member @ UW Engineers Without Borders
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Worked on building a digital and interactive display to be installed in UW’s Population Health building for the building’s rainwater conservation system

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, Washington
- Created a chat-bot intended for Microsoft Teams to allow students to easily access research databases and handled API requests to both the O’Reilly and New York Public Library research databases with NodeJS 
- Developed an online portal for teachers to view students’ search queries and database usage by using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS 
- Wrote Product Specifications, Product Opportunity Assessment, and Technical Specifications, and created UX/UI designs for potential new feature of integrating research databases into Microsoft Teams
- Pitched product idea to leadership


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Washington

### Tesla STEM High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sonika-tayade

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Last updated: 2026-03-29