Priya Sharma
Senior Software Engineer · 7 Years · System Design & Cloud
Professional Summary
Results-driven Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years building high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native products used by millions. Proven record of reducing costs, improving latency, and shipping features that directly move business metrics. Led teams of up to 8 engineers and delivered projects worth ₹50 Cr+ in revenue impact. Passionate about system design, developer productivity, and mentoring high-performing engineers.
Work Experience
Amazon India (AWS)
Senior Software Development Engineer
- Architected a real-time payment-reconciliation service processing ₹800 Cr+ in daily transactions with 99.99% uptime across 3 AWS regions
- Reduced P99 API latency by 68% for 12M+ daily users by designing a Redis-based distributed caching layer, saving ₹90L/year in compute costs
- Led cross-functional team of 8 engineers to deliver 'Subscribe & Save' auto-replenishment feature — contributed ₹42 Cr in Q1 FY2024 revenue
- Drove migration of 5 monolithic services to event-driven microservices on AWS Lambda + SQS, cutting infrastructure spend by ₹1.2 Cr annually
- Established team-wide coding standards and ADR process; reduced critical production incidents by 55% year-over-year
- Mentored 5 SDE-I engineers in system design and best practices; 3 promoted to SDE-II within 18 months
Flipkart
Software Engineer II
- Built real-time inventory management system tracking 50M+ SKUs across 28 fulfilment centres using Apache Kafka and Flink
- Slashed order-processing latency from 4.2 s to 0.8 s by re-architecting synchronous flows into async, event-driven pipelines
- Designed a rate-limiting framework protecting 40+ internal APIs — prevented 3 major DDoS events during the Big Billion Days sale
- Raised unit-test coverage from 34% to 91% and introduced contract testing, halving the production bug rate over 6 months
- Owned end-to-end delivery of the Seller Wallet feature from design to GA in 11 weeks, used by 3L+ active sellers
Infosys — Finacle Banking Suite
Software Engineer
- Developed core banking HRMS portal used daily by 18,000 employees across 6 global business units
- Built payroll-processing REST APIs handling ₹300 Cr/month in disbursements, reducing manual reconciliation by 90%
- Integrated OAuth2/SAML enterprise SSO for 4 Fortune-500 clients, eliminating shared-credential security risk
- Received 'Insta Award' (top 2% company-wide) for delivering a regulatory reporting module 3 weeks ahead of RBI deadline
Projects
InstantCV — AI-Powered Resume Builder
Spring Boot · GPT-4 API · React · PostgreSQL · AWS
SaaS resume builder that uses GPT-4 to auto-generate tailored bullet points from job descriptions. Acquired 2,400 paying users in 3 months; featured on Product Hunt (#3 of the day) with 4.8★ rating.
instantcv.inTradeVision — Real-Time Stock Analytics
Python · FastAPI · React · Apache Kafka · Redis · Celery
Real-time stock screener with technical-indicator overlays, backtesting engine, and price-alert system for 500+ tracked symbols. Serves 1,200+ active daily users with sub-200 ms dashboard loads.
tradevision.ioSafeRoute — Women's Safety App
Flutter · Firebase · Google Maps API · TensorFlow Lite
Cross-platform mobile app providing real-time safe-route suggestions, one-tap SOS broadcast, and ML-powered venue-safety scores crowd-sourced from 8,000+ users. Winner — Smart India Hackathon 2022.
github.com/priyasharma/saferoute