About Sonu Kapoor – Angular GDE, Microsoft MVP & Author

I often say my career didn’t start with a job title — it started with a spark. That spark lit up when I was twelve years old at a friend’s birthday party in Germany, where I saw a Commodore 64 for the first time. The green glow of its screen was enough to hook me. I begged my father for a computer, and after much persistence, he eventually surprised me with an Amiga 500.

That Amiga came with two thick books on BASIC programming. I read them cover to cover until the pages wore thin, teaching myself to build small games and animations. By my teenage years, I wasn’t just playing with computers — I was learning to think in algorithms and systems. Those early nights spent typing code set the stage for everything that followed.

From Curiosity to Career

In the year 2000, a German newspaper article changed my trajectory. It announced a plan to bring thousands of Indian tech professionals to Germany. I saw an opportunity, so I moved back to India for a year, immersing myself in web programming. With no safety net but plenty of ambition, I built my first portfolio, and when I returned to Germany, I landed my first programming job almost immediately.

That leap of faith ignited a career that would take me across industries, continents, and technologies.

Building Global Experience

Continuing the Journey

In 2024, I was once again honored with the Microsoft MVP Award, after a 13-year gap, alongside being recognized as a Google Developer Expert (Angular). Few developers hold both distinctions at the same time.

Today, I split my time between consulting with enterprises, writing books and articles, contributing to Angular and open source, and mentoring the next generation. What started with curiosity in front of a green screen has grown into a global career spanning AI, Angular, and developer education.

From Building Applications to Securing Them

After two decades building frontends for Citigroup, Sony Music Publishing, and Cisco, I found myself drawn to the layer underneath all of them: the dependencies that every modern application is assembled from. Most teams ship code they did not write and cannot easily audit, and the tools meant to help tend to hand you a list of problems rather than a way out of them.

So I built one that does the opposite. CVE Lite CLI scans a project’s lockfile, separates the issues you can fix yourself from the ones buried deep in the dependency tree, and gives you the exact command to run. It is now an OWASP Lab Project, has passed 80,000 downloads, and has drawn contributions from 66 developers around the world.

It runs in production at the French government’s interministerial digital service and at the Government of British Columbia, and in the CI pipelines of open source projects including SolidJS, whose creator added the integration to the framework himself. In September 2026, GitHub invited me onto Open Source Friday to demo it live.

Timeline

Looking Ahead

I’ve been fortunate to turn a childhood obsession into a career that spans continents, industries, and communities. And even now, decades later, I still feel that same spark I did as a 12-year-old kid staring at a glowing green screen — excited to see what I can build next.