Sona Oakley

Sona (Chaudhuri) Oakley is an experienced professional in technology and engineering, currently serving as the Director of Global Partnerships Solutions Engineering for Business Innovation at Meta. Previously, Sona held the position of Solutions Architect Leader for Data Analytics, Data Management, and AI/ML at Google, along with roles such as Sr Sales Engineer Lead at Doubleclick and Sales Engineer Manager at Innotas. Sona's career began at IBM as a Technical Sales Specialist and Extreme Blue Technical Engineer, and also included experience as a Web Programmer with the UCLA Alumni Association. Sona holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UCLA.