Sonul Saxena

Teams: Viva Skills

• Served as the Technical Lead for Admin Extensibility in People/Viva Skills (M365 Copilot leverages advanced inferencing, real-time activity signals, and flexible taxonomies to surface essential skills and expertise across organization) enabling scalable and seamless onboarding experiences for enterprise customers.
• Designed and onboarded background processors to support cross-team collaboration, managing scale and frequency considerations.

Teams: MileIQ | Viva Insights

• Contributed to MileIQ, an automatic mileage tracking application, enhancing backend systems to ensure reliability and data accuracy for tax and business usage.
• Worked on Viva Insights, developing features that promote better workplace habits through data-driven personal recommendations, improving user well-being and focus.

• Focused on Platform-Independent IGP Routing, working on the development and lifecycle management of EOS, Arista’s proprietary network operating system.
• Collaborated with the core routing team to implement, test, and maintain essential routing protocols and networking features. Enhanced functionality in OSPF to execute the refreshing of OSPF LSAs more efficiently, which was initially suboptimal and might hog the CPU in large-scale setups, benefiting every customer running this IGP on their setups
• Added VRF (virtual routing and forwarding) and ECMP (equal cost multipath) support to RIP, which facilitated Comcast to expand their networks multifold.