Summary
Eight years shipping web platforms for fintech and health-tech teams. I care about accessibility, observability and APIs that stay simple as they grow.
Publications
- Idempotency keys in practiceMay 2024 · The Pragmatic Engineer (guest post)
- Boring reliabilityNov 2023 · Personal blog
About
I lead a platform team of six at Lumen Labs, where we run the payments and identity services behind three consumer apps. Before that I built the lending stack at Finly from a prototype to 400,000 customers.
I write about engineering practice, mentor early-career developers, and speak at community meetups when someone asks nicely.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Lumen Labs · Bengaluru
Platform team lead for payments and identity. Cut p95 checkout latency from 1.9 s to 420 ms; introduced contract tests and on-call runbooks.
- Led the migration of 14 services to .NET 8 with zero downtime
- Designed the idempotent payments API used by three apps
- Started the accessibility guild (40 members)
Software Engineer II
Finly · Bengaluru
Built the lending decision service and its data pipeline; owned reliability for the customer app's backend.
- Reduced loan-decision time from 40 s to under 3 s
- Introduced feature flags and progressive rollouts
Software Engineer
Kite Interactive · Pune
Full-stack work on an e-commerce platform for 200 merchants.
Projects
- Ledgerline
An open-source double-entry ledger library for .NET with 1,200 stars. Used by two fintech startups in production.
- a11y-lint
A linter that catches common accessibility mistakes in React and Razor views before review.
- Checkout latency programme
A nine-month effort across four teams that made checkout four times faster and removed two services.
Awards
- Engineering Excellence AwardDec 2024 · Lumen Labs
For the checkout latency programme.
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Surathkal
Skills
Languages
- TypeScript
- C# / .NET
- SQL
- Go
Platforms
- ASP.NET Core
- React
- PostgreSQL
- Azure
- Kubernetes
Practice
- System design
- Accessibility
- Mentoring
Testimonials
Priya is the engineer you want in the room when the system is on fire and the one you want designing it so it never is.
Dev Anand — CTO, Lumen Labs
Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect ExpertFeb 2023 · Microsoft
- Certified Kubernetes Application DeveloperAug 2022 · CNCF
Languages
- EnglishFluent
- HindiNative
- KannadaConversational
Interests
- Trail running
- Mechanical keyboards
- Carnatic music
- Teaching kids to code