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title: "Dheeraj Sonkar - Software Engineer Intern in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Dheeraj Sonkar, SDE Intern @ClearTax | IIIT Allahabad ’26 | Backend Engineer | Java • Spring Boot • Microservices • Reactive Programming | Knight @Leetcode | Specialist @Codeforces | 3⭐@ Codechef based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude. Explore p..."
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# Dheeraj Sonkar on Tal

## Headline

SDE Intern @ClearTax \| IIIT Allahabad ’26 \| Backend Engineer \| Java • Spring Boot • Microservices • Reactive Programming \| Knight @Leetcode \| Specialist @Codeforces \| 3⭐@ Codechef

## About

I'm Dheeraj Sonkar, a final year B\.Tech student at IIIT Allahabad \(ECE, 2026\), currently working as a Software Engineer Intern at ClearTax, Bangalore — building production\-grade backend systems serving 1M\+ Indian businesses\. 💻 Technical Expertise I specialize in backend development with deep hands\-on experience in Java 21, Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux \(Reactive Programming\), Microservices, Temporal Workflows, and Event\-Driven Architecture\. On the frontend, I'm proficient in React\.js, Angular, and Node\.js\. I've worked with databases like MongoDB, ClickHouse, and MySQL at production scale\. 🎯 What Drives Me I thrive on solving complex problems — from debugging critical production bugs impacting enterprise users to optimizing distributed workflows\. I'm a LeetCode Knight \(Rating 2019, Top 1,500 globally\) with 800\+ problems solved across LeetCode, Codeforces, and CodeChef — problem solving is not just a skill for me, it's a habit\. 🏆 Achievements ⚔️ LeetCode Knight \| Max Rating 2019 \| Top 1,500 globally 🌐 Codeforces Specialist \| Max Rating 1533 🚀 Selected for Amazon HackOn Interview Round 🏅 HackWithInfy Finalist — Top performers among 1\.5 lakh participants nationwide 🌟 Beyond Code When I'm not coding, you'll find me volunteering at college events, playing sports, diving into a good book, or unwinding with music\. I believe in balancing technical excellence with personal growth\. 🤝 Let's Connect I'm actively looking for full\-time SDE opportunities starting mid\-2026\. If you're hiring or know of any openings, feel free to reach out — always open to exciting conversations\!

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

glama

hugging face

kiro

replit

## Work experience

Software Engineer Intern at Clear, Jan 2026 \- Present · 7 mos, Bengaluru, \- Built an end\-to\-end email notification system for a GST reconciliation platform serving 1M\+ Indian businesses using Spring WebFlux, Temporal workflows, MongoDB, and ClickHouse — eliminating manual status polling for enterprise users\. \- Resolved 3 critical production bugs in live GST workflows — a WebFlux codec misconfiguration, a ClickHouse type mismatch corrupting reconciliation filters, and a database routing bug traced across the full React to Spring microservice chain\. \- Optimized distributed Temporal workflow execution by pushing upstream validation in the reconciliation scheduler — eliminating unnecessary compute and preventing cascading failures for end users\. \- Extended a data enrichment pipeline \(Python, DuckDB, Apache Arrow\) to surface vendor data\-freshness timestamps via ClickHouse — reducing reconciliation errors caused by stale vendor records\.

Full Stack Engineer at Unified Mentor, May 2025 \- Jul 2025 · 3 mos, \- Built secure, scalable RESTful APIs for authentication, inventory management, and order processing with JWT\-based authorization using Express\.js and MongoDB\. \- Developed a full\-stack medicine\-ordering platform with role\-based access control \(RBAC\) dashboards for customers, pharmacies, and admins using React\.js, Node\.js, and MongoDB\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Indian Institute Of Information Technology allahabad

Class 12th, H N Singh Intermediate College

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/Dheeraj6392
- leetcode: https://leetcode\.com/Black\_hatCoder

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