# Sowmitra Nalla > Experienced Software Engineer working in Trust & Safety. Previously in infrastructure & DevOps. Inventor for multiple pending patents. Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sowmitra Senior software engineer with experience creating APIs and architecting large systems. Reach out at sowmitra.nalla@gmail.com for anything that I can be of assistance for. On the side, I'm building out a robo-crypto investing app that helps interested parties learn more about the digital currency markets. Also, I go by my last name, Nalla. Skills: Javascript, NodeJS, React, AWS ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Chime Jan 2024 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States ### Software Engineer @ Chime Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States ### Software Engineering Manager @ Lob Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 - Managed a team of six engineers and expanded to eight engineer spanning midlevel to staff level engineers - Initiated cross team project to split read traffic to DB replicas to improve write performance leveraging AWS Aurora. - Strategized and led experiments to increase throughput of API by ~20% and provided biweekly updates to C-Suite - Introduced and led initial implementation work for a forward proxy caching layer to reduce latency. - Spearheaded AWS skill training across all engineering teams to boost the infrastructure knowledge. - Lead the adoption of incident.io, an incident management tool, in order to establish metrics and increase efficiency - Integrated two teams into one, which resulted in a unified team culture, properly defined objectives, and KPIs. - Recruited engineers for the Platform team, drove performance/promotion conversations for early to staff engineers. - Conducted 1-1s, mentored, and coached teammates and engineers across the organization. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Lob Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 - Scaled AV API throughput by 3X by improving app architecture while driving down costs by ~60%. (Elixir) - Spearheaded the upgrade of a 5 year old web framework which increased throughput by 2X. (Node) - Led the initiative to clean up data from databases, elasticsearch, and S3, resulting in over $50,000 annual savings. - Improved asset management system by baking assets into Docker images to reduce application start time by ~30%. - Reviewed engineering design documents and provided architectural and operational direction. - Created an automated load testing system using k6.io which enabled other teams to test for high scale. - Created personal staging environments for each platform team member to enable siloed workflows and testing. ### Senior Software Engineer/Manager @ Slalom Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Product: - Led and built a DevSecOps tool leveraging AWS technologies to identify resources that are non-compliant with enterprise security standards. (Python, AWS Config, Terraform) - Architected a schema-based form engine that enabled dynamic generation for mobile UI. (React Native) - Developed a PDF generation process including a custom-built e-signature process. (PDFtk, Pdfjinja, SQS) - Architected and engineered GraphQL API for a mobile app for insurance field agents. (Serverless framework) Process & Process: - Performed code reviews with engineers to ensure quality and implemented static code scanning tools in Jenkins. - Initiated an internal DevOps Bootcamp to increase exposure to cloud services and coached on best practices. - Architected, designed, and developed web applications for conferences and events. (React, ElasticSearch, Kibana) - Conducted 1-1s and provided mentorship for teammates and interviews for team growth. - Assisted the leadership team in drafting and revising engagement contracts and pursuing prospective clients. ### Software Engineer, Consultant @ Slalom Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area Product: - Reduced annual costs by 58% for non-production environments by implementing EC2 Spot Fleet. - Created parallelized builds and running integration test suites across multiple containers which improved Jenkins build time by ~50%. (Jenkins/ECS/Docker) - Automated manual maintenance tasks through Lambdas and implemented email notifications which improved reliability and reduced incident count by ~10%. (AWS Lambda/SNS) - Coordinated deployment of new environments spanning over four regions for a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical client. Internal Initiatives: - Created three Machine Learning workshops which leveraged SageMaker and presented feature engineering, model training, validation, and deployment to groups of 40+ attendees. ### Software Engineer, Full Stack @ Arup Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area - Built an API with a 99.9% success rate to assist in managing real estate property. (Flask, Python, Azure WebApp) - Designed a WebJob to process Excel documents and produce images from 3D modeling software in a VM by developing an ETL process which resulted in faster business operations. (Flask, OpenPyXL) - Hardened web app security by implementing session timeout, CSRF, CORS, and other best practices. - Coordinated with finance managers to create a web app that tracked deliverables. (React, Express, PostgreSQL) - Assisted business analysts to identify over 50 key areas where data for ETL needed normalization. - Increased developer efficiency by 15% by engineering and maintaining CI/CD pipeline in VSTS that stood up Azure WebApps. (Kudu Deploy scripts, AzureSQL, Storage Accounts, KeyVault) - Designed, developed, and deployed demo web apps for client presentations (HTML, CSS, jQuery, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway) ### Software Engineer @ Infosys Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Newark, CA ## Education ### Electrical Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering California State Polytechnic University-Pomona ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sowmitranalla - Website: http://sowmitranalla.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/sowmitra JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sowmitra/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22