Sonia Maya Menon

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Engineering Manager at Jade Analytics | ex-HP

Jade Analytics
Miami, FL · ET (UTC-5)
10+ years experience
Boston University
English, Hindi
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Overview

I lead distributed databases at Jade Analytics in Miami. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 16 a week to 4. Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: HP and Starbucks. Most at home with Rust and Raft.

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Skills
C++RaftRocksDBRustperformance engineeringconsensus
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9 SRE roles open on the storage team in Miami

Role
SRE
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$160k-$204k + equity
Team
Storage, 10 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with consensus Production experience with RocksDB Clear written communication
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $163k-$262k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Miami, FLrustrocksdbperformance engineering
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Jade Analytics · 6 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped 15 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 887ms to 94ms.
    • Built the experimentation framework 14 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Software Engineer
    Sep 2022 - Apr 2026
    HP · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 6.
    • Moved 62% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
    Starbucks · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped 16 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  4. Software Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
    Ford · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 896ms to 166ms.
  5. Software Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
    Chewy · 1 yr · Contract · Miami, FL
    • Moved 60% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Distributed databases benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Rust and performance engineering on real workloads.

Write-up: distributed databases in practice
2022

A long-form guide to distributed databases for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Boston University
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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