Priya Raghavan
Senior Software Engineer
Seattle, WA · priya.raghavan@example.com · +1 (206) 555-0184
Profile
Backend engineer with seven years building distributed payment and identity systems in Go and TypeScript. Scaled services from 200K to 40M daily requests, cut p99 latency 61%, and led a four-person platform team.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Northwind Payments2022–Present
- Design and operate the payments ledger that settles $1.3B annually across 14 currencies, holding 99.98% availability through two regional failovers.
- Lead a four-engineer platform team end-to-end, mentoring two engineers to senior and cutting onboarding time from 6 weeks to 9 days.
Software Engineer II · Cartwheel Commerce2019–2022
- Built an event-driven inventory service on Kafka handling 12K events per second, replacing a nightly batch job that ran 4 hours.
- Reduced AWS spend $410K per year by right-sizing 60 EC2 fleets and moving cold storage to S3 Glacier.
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Skills
Languages: Go, TypeScript, Python, SQL, Java