Sonali Sharma

Sonali Sharma is an experienced software engineer and data professional currently working as the Engineering Manager for Ads Data Engineering at Netflix.1 She began this role in July 2023 and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her responsibilities include building end-to-end data engineering solutions to power Netflix's advertising vertical.1

Career Highlights

Netflix Experience: Sonali has a history with Netflix, having previously worked there as a Senior Data Engineer from March 2016 to April 2021.1 During this time, she built large-scale data pipelines for personalization, using technologies like Apache Spark, Scala, Apache Flink, Python, and Druid.1

Other Notable Positions:

• Senior Engineering Manager at Apple (April 2021 - July 2023): Led the ML and Annotations Data Engineering team, focusing on building datasets for Siri improvement, analytics, and personalization.1
• Mail Monetization Data Engineer at Yahoo (June 2014 - March 2016): Worked on large-scale data extractions, aggregation, and analytics.1

Education and Achievements

Sonali holds a Master's degree in Management Information Systems with a specialization in Big Data and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley - School of Information.1 She has also won hackathons at both Yahoo (2015) and Netflix (2017).1

Technical Expertise

Sonali has extensive experience with various technologies, including:

• Scala
• Python
• Apache Spark
• Apache Flink
• AWS
• Druid
• Airflow

Professional Engagements

Sonali has been involved in several speaking engagements, including:

• Strata Data Conference 2019, San Francisco
• Qcon 2019, San Francisco
• IDEAS SoCal AI & Data Science Conference 2019, Los Angeles

She also served on the Program Committee for Flink Forward 2019 in San Francisco.1