I'm Krishna Sonawane, a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience building cloud-native enterprise applications in telecom and BSS/OSS spaces. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, and distributed systems, delivering scalable, high-throughput platforms and modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures. I thrive on solving production challenges, improving performance, and guiding cross-team collaboration from design to deployment. I enjoy mentoring engineers, leading modernization efforts, and ensuring secure, robust solutions that meet customer needs across Inventory, Activation, and Fulfillment domains.

Krishna Sonawane

I'm Krishna Sonawane, a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience building cloud-native enterprise applications in telecom and BSS/OSS spaces. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, and distributed systems, delivering scalable, high-throughput platforms and modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures. I thrive on solving production challenges, improving performance, and guiding cross-team collaboration from design to deployment. I enjoy mentoring engineers, leading modernization efforts, and ensuring secure, robust solutions that meet customer needs across Inventory, Activation, and Fulfillment domains.

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I’m Krishna Sonawane, a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience building cloud-native enterprise applications in telecom and BSS/OSS spaces. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, and distributed systems, delivering scalable, high-throughput platforms and modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.

I thrive on solving production challenges, improving performance, and guiding cross-team collaboration from design to deployment. I enjoy mentoring engineers, leading modernization efforts, and ensuring secure, robust solutions that meet customer needs across Inventory, Activation, and Fulfillment domains.

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Work Experience

Software Engineering Specialist & Lead at Amdocs
June 1, 2020 - Present
Architected and developed integration of a newly developed OSS product with Amdocs Inventory, Activation, and Fulfillment platforms, enabling seamless end-to-end digital order flows. Engineered an enterprise Encryption Utility for secure live production deployment, addressing a critical customer requirement. Developed License Checking Service for proactive license expiry alerts to prevent business disruption. Identified and fixed a defect in the SOM retry mechanism, increasing live production throughput and reducing outage risk. Resolved a silent recursive query issue in a core SOM workflow, restoring stable performance. Delivered production health checks enhancements for a major telecom service fulfillment platform. Led performance optimization across CRM, SOM, and Payments using Spring Batch, Kafka, and ELK Stack. Mentored junior engineers, conducted code reviews, and led Agile ceremonies.
Software Developer & Migration Lead at Amdocs
September 1, 2019 - June 1, 2020
Led migration of legacy CRM and Billing applications from monolithic to microservices architecture on AWS. Designed database migration strategies and modernization roadmaps for Oracle-to-MongoDB transitions. Implemented DevOps pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, and Docker to streamline delivery.
Software Developer (Singapore Onsite) at Amdocs
August 1, 2017 - September 1, 2019
Built high-volume telecom order automation tools handling millions of daily transactions. Designed and implemented customer-specific product enhancements in collaboration with product and business teams. Recognized with APS Ambassador Award for outstanding delivery excellence.
Software Developer (Argentina Onsite) at Amdocs
March 1, 2014 - August 1, 2017
Refactored and optimized retry-processing algorithms, improving system throughput. Developed database performance analysis tools; supported production go-live and stabilization.
Assistant System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services
September 1, 2012 - March 1, 2014
Supported Vodafone prepaid platform; automated support operations using Shell scripting and PL/SQL stored procedures.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science at Jai Hind Sr. College, NMU, Maharashtra
January 11, 2030 - July 3, 2026

Qualifications

Advanced AI Agent With LLMs
January 11, 2030 - July 3, 2026
AI Engineer Agentic Track
January 11, 2030 - July 3, 2026
Secure Programming of Web Applications
January 11, 2030 - July 3, 2026
Principles of Secure Coding
January 11, 2030 - July 3, 2026

Industry Experience

Telecommunications, Software & Internet

Experience Level

Expert
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