# Sunil Salunkhe

> Principal Software Engineer @ TriNet | Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree

Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sunilsalunkhe

At TriNet, my primary focus is on driving innovation in workflow automation, leveraging my expertise in microservices and distributed systems. This involves architecting robust components that communicate seamlessly, a challenge I relish. The introduction of a formal code review process under my leadership has significantly improved our software quality and team collaboration.

My role extends beyond technical prowess; I am committed to fostering growth among my peers, mentoring engineers across seniority levels in engineering excellence and cloud best practices. With a solid foundation in Agile application development and a strategic mindset, I strive to deliver solutions that not only meet but exceed business expectations.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ TriNet
Jan 2022 – Present | Pleasanton, California, United States

### Principal Software Engineer @ ICE Mortgage Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Pleasanton, California, United States
-Worked as a lead architect for the workflow automation platform which included building multiple distributed components/services communicate with each other via Kafka/Amazon SQS. 
-Mentored senior/junior engineers on engineering and cloud best practices. 
-Introduced company's first formal team code review process.

### Senior Staff Engineer @ Ellie Mae
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Pleasanton, California
-Designed and developed restful APIs/Microservices in Java and C#.net for the next generation Mortgage lending platform and developer connect. 
-Designed and developed task service (30+ APIs) in 2 weeks to provide a sandbox environment for the customer to test it.

### Staff Engineer - Platform Engineering @ Ellie Mae
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Pleasanton
-Designed and developed the bridge services platform to support automatic service ordering through integration with various partners for credit ordering, employment verification etc.
-Lead the performance enhancement team to improve performance of some critical loan APIs.

### Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering @ Ellie Mae
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Pleasanton, CA
-Developed loan centric restful APIs such as loan create, loan update as a part of platform services.
-Troubleshooted some critical production issues and fixed it. 
-Implemented some new features in Encompass smart client software.

### Ellie Mae Hackathon 2016 Grand Prize Winner @ Ellie Mae
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pleasanton, CA
Ellie Mae Hackathon 2016
Teams - 42   Participants - 190
Winning Team - Hack in the box
Winning Team Members - Sunil Salunkhe,Gautam Mankatti,Shrenik Chougule, Pushkar Bhingarkar

Idea - Developed Housing Market Social Sentiment Application http://www.housimento.io in 24 hours using Angular.js, NodeJs, Java, Alchemy Language API by IBM Watson (NLP) and Twitter API, hosted on AWS with responsive web interface and VUI (Voice User Interface) via Amazon Echo (By creating Custom Skill Set to access the REST API to provide the housing market sentiment summary)

### Alexa Skills/Google Assistant/Amazon Lex/NLP @ Side Projects/Weekend Projects
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
Alexa Custom Skills
- Your Persona Home - Alexa Skill
-1HappyBirthday Song With YOUR Name
- ATP Rankings Skill
- WTA Rankings Skill
- Tennis Feeds Skill
- Cricket Feeds Skill
- Active Amber Alert Skill
- Quote Of The Day Skill (Top Performing Skill on Alexa)
- Loan Officer Connect Skill
- Housing Market Sentiment (Housimento) Skill 

Chatbots 
-Ellie Mae Millennial Tracker Chatbot on Google Assistant 
-Ellie Mae Loan Officer Connect Chatbot using Amazon Lex

Hackathon Project (Grand Prize Winning Project at Ellie Mae Hackathon 2016)
Housimento.io (Housing Market Sentiment App)

Interesting Project involving Google Home and Alexa
-Loan Officer Connect Skill Demo using Google Home and Alexa
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGMMFx2qoaM

### Follow BluCon Alexa Skill @ Ambrosia Systems Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### Senior Software Engineer @ eBusiness Design Inc
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, California

### Software Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area

### Technical Analyst @ Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 | Bangalore, India


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Datta Meghe College of Engineering, Mumbai University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12