Akhilaa Sonduri

About

Full-stack engineer with experience at HubSpot, Accolite, and an early-stage USC alumni startup (Workup). Built and shipped end-to-end workflow automation features (dynamic input configuration with strict schema validation) driving ~25% faster configuration, and delivered an AI interview customization feature in a high-ambiguity startup setting that increased adoption by ~40%. Comfortable operating production systems on AWS with CloudWatch observability and CI/CD, and has built real-time web apps with caching/indexing for performance.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Owned and shipped full-stack production feature end-to-end (React/TypeScript + backend + API/data model changes)
• Improved workflow configuration time by ~25% and reduced support issues via better input configuration UX and validation
• Strong validation mindset: schema validation at API layer to prevent downstream execution failures; added tests and logging
• Designed real-time stock search app with performance optimizations (indexing, caching, 15-second refresh cadence)
• Production AWS operations experience (multi-env dev/staging/prod, CloudWatch dashboards/alerts, CI/CD with containers)
• Shipped in ambiguous startup environment; AI interview customization feature increased adoption by ~40%
• Improved maintainability/scalability via modular React component system and standards; performance/responsiveness up ~30%
• Built resilient third-party API integration with retries/backoff, scheduling, and logging for reliability