Sonakshi Pandey
- Sonakshi Pandey switched roles at Amazon, then moved to Google to be a customer engineer.
- Pandey credits mentorship with transitioning her career and growing more confident.
- Pandey's résumé includes company blogs and a section on her volunteering and mentorship projects.
Sonakshi Pandey did not always feel prepared for the role she is in today.
She landed a job as a software engineer at Amazon straight out of her master's degree in computer science. For three years, she did what she loved: writing code.
"I was very shy, very introverted," she told Business Insider. "I used to wear my headphones and code for eight hours straight."
One day, she came across a YouTube video, where a tech expert was speaking about databases in depth. She admired how confident he sounded.