Sonali Sidana

Hi, I'm Sonali Sidana

Engineering Lead | Backend Systems & Platform Engineering

I engineer intelligent systems that automate workflows, power user experiences, and drive reliable execution at scale.

What I Do

I'm Sonali Sidana, an Engineering Lead at Digii with 6+ years of experience building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS products. I currently lead a 10-member engineering team focused on architecture, production reliability, observability, and infrastructure efficiency.

Experience

Technical Lead / Senior Product Engineer II

June 2024 - Present • Bangalore

Digii

  • Lead the Communications & Workflows team, aligning roadmap execution with product goals and business outcomes.
  • Drive hiring, performance reviews, and career development for a high-performing engineering team.
  • Oversee production reliability and architectural governance while balancing feature delivery, scalability, and technical debt.
  • Spearheaded enterprise-grade observability using Google Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, JavaMelody, and New Relic to enable real-time telemetry and data-driven incident management.
  • Led adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows (Claude, Codex, Cursor) to improve debugging and developer productivity.

Senior Product Engineer I

July 2022 - May 2024 • Bangalore

Digii

  • Architected and deployed multi-node Elasticsearch infrastructure for scalable search across a multi-tenant platform.
  • Designed and implemented high-availability REST APIs using Spring Boot to support high-volume workflows.
  • Authored system design documents and collaborated with QA, DevOps, and Support teams for seamless end-to-end delivery.
  • Led critical production incident resolution through root cause analysis and cross-team coordination.

Product Engineer II

August 2021 - June 2022 • Bangalore

Digii

  • Delivered backend services across 10+ modules in a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
  • Improved database performance through query optimization, indexing, and schema tuning.
  • Led debugging and resolution of high-priority production issues to improve system reliability.
  • Supported architecture decisions with impact analysis from hands-on AWS and MySQL experience.

Product Engineer I

August 2020 - July 2021 • Bangalore

Digii

  • Joined Digii as an engineering intern and transitioned into a full-time product engineering role.
  • Modernized the frontend stack from ES5 to ES6 to improve maintainability and modularity.
  • Built scalable workflow automation APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Optimized database queries to improve response times and overall platform efficiency.

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

Master of Computer Applications

2020

MCM DAV College for Women, Panjab University, Chandigarh

Bachelor of Computer Applications

2018

Tech I Work With

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Elasticsearch

Prometheus

Grafana

MySQL

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS3

Angular

System Design

Selected Work

Flagship Initiative

Incident Explainer

Incident intelligence for quicker debugging and clearer postmortems

From Incident Noise to Actionable Insight

Incident Explainer focuses on making production incidents easier to understand by structuring context, surfacing probable causes, and organizing next steps for faster recovery and better engineering communication.

Incident Explainer

An incident-analysis utility to summarize production issues, highlight probable causes, and propose clear action steps for faster resolution.

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Notification Service

A service-focused backend project for event-driven notifications, delivery orchestration, and scalable messaging workflows.

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More Open Source Work

Explore additional repositories, experiments, and backend engineering utilities on my GitHub profile.

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Let's Work Together

I'm always excited to collaborate, innovate, and build meaningful backend systems. Whether you have a project, leadership opportunity, or just want to connect, let's talk.

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