About
About me
Bringing 8+ years of software engineering expertise, I'm passionate about both coding and championing women in tech.
I’m Dona, and I currently work at Slack as a Backend Developer.
I’m Dona, and I currently work at Slack as a Senior Software Engineer. During my tenure as a software engineer, I have worked on both legacy systems and 0-1 initiatives. In my previous role at Dropbox, I have successfully led multiple projects to completion. Some notable achievements include implementing custom rules for file grouping, automating file organization and naming conventions, and developing transcript extraction for video files. These experiences highlight my ability to deliver results and my proficiency in managing diverse tasks.
During my time at Microsoft, I was involved in an incubation project that started with a team of two engineers and grew into a fully funded initiative with eight engineers. I had the opportunity to work on the project from its inception, gaining valuable experience in driving features from architectural design to the final product release. This encompassed tasks such as setting up deployment pipelines, managing permissions, and integrating various components.
Moreover, I take pride in my ability to quickly adapt and learn in dynamic environments. Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated my capability to grasp new concepts rapidly and effectively navigate challenging situations. For instance, during my tenure at Microsoft, I proactively acquired knowledge in React and front-end development to scale a project, which exemplifies my dedication to acquiring new skills to meet evolving job requirements.
Additionally, I actively participate in women in tech initiatives both in my current and previous workplaces. I am the founder and leader of the Dallas AnitaB.org local community, which is the largest organization supporting women in technology. In this capacity, I have successfully organized events in Dallas, demonstrating my commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in the industry. I am also selected as Google Women Techmakers Ambassador.
My Skills
Experience
Experience
2024-Present
Salesforce Inc – Slack
SENIOR Software Engineer
- Part of the core team that handles core components like Activity tab in Slack.
- Working on product capabilities for users to manage noise in Slack (Activity, Notifications, etc) so that they can focus on their most important work.
2021-2024
Dropbox
Software Engineer
- Developed APIs for organizing folders, letting users set personalized rules based on keywords, dates, size, extensions, etc, along with rule automation. About 3.2M files are organized using multi file organize each week.
- Updated naming convention UI, incorporating keyword rules and custom positioning, leading to a 712% increase in organized files and a 300% improvement in rule application compared to the previous system.
- Led the initiative to introduce ML based search functionality for video content.
- Worked on developing a new surface in Dropbox that homes video files and let user perform various file actions (edit, share, etc.)
- Worked in Dropbox's rich media feedback too, Replay.
- Improved team process and on-call rotation by setting proper guidelines.
2019-2021
Microsoft
SOFTWARE ENGINEER II
- Initial team member of 0-1 initiative - a react based dashboard to track Office Online customer metrics (usage, reliability, performance and monthly ranking).
- Led design and development of drill down pages for core metrics and customer cohorts.
- Designed database schema to store metrics extracted from Office Online telemetry.
- Integrated Azure resources like AAD, Anomaly detector, Cognitive services, Application Insights, etc, to the dashboard for authentication, translation logging, etc.
- Led engineering effort to avoid PII leak across Office Online org.
- Developed enhanced PII leak detection tool with advanced queries and created a PowerBI dashboard to track the bugs. Updated tool reduced false positives by 60%.
2017-2019
Visa Inc
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
- Re-architected customer data storage system to use NoSQL(Cassandra) instead of Oracle.
- Developed payment gateways for new customers and enhanced existing gateways. Implemented multi-level indexed field parsing from raw to JSON format for transaction flow from authorization to processing. In the process, increased the code coverage by 10%.
- Led an initiative to improve code coverage across the org, resulting in 27% increase.
- Refactored a large artifact by breaking it into smaller artifacts to reduce dependencies between components. This optimized transaction processing and build time for dependent components decreased by 50%.
- Improved developer environment by integrating Docker and JRebel.
Juun 2016-Aug 2016
Sabre Airline Solutions
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER INTERN
- Developed a log analyzer tool using ELK (Elastic Search, Kibana and Logstash) stack and shell script to analyze the log files generated by the Flight Schedule Manager.
- Wrote a script to extract data from log files and generated visual report.
Aug 2014-Jun 2015
Cognizant
PROGRAMMER ANALYST
- Implemented deposit, withdrawal of money from accounts, bank statement generation for a Bank Management System using Java, HTML and CSS.
- Handled database management and integration of other modules in MySQL.
Education
2015-2017
University of Texas at Arlington
MASTER'S IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
2010-2014
Rajagiri School of Engineering, India