Priya Nair
Backend Software Engineer
priya.nair@example.com | +91 98450 12345 | Bengaluru, Karnataka
linkedin.com/in/priya-nair | github.com/priyanair
Professional Summary
Backend engineer with 4 years of experience building payment and order APIs in Java and Python for products with millions of users. Cut checkout latency by 38% at a fintech serving 2 million people. Looking for a senior backend role on a product team that ships often.
Work Experience
PayBridge, Bengaluru
- Rebuilt the payment status service in Java and Spring Boot, cutting p95 latency from 820 ms to 510 ms for 2 million monthly users.
- Led the move of 14 cron jobs to Kafka consumers, ending the nightly batch failures that delayed settlements.
- Designed idempotent retry handling for UPI callbacks, which brought duplicate refunds down to zero.
- Mentor 3 junior engineers and run the team's weekly code review rota.
Cartwise, Bengaluru
- Built the order history API in Python and FastAPI, used by 400,000 monthly shoppers.
- Added PostgreSQL indexes and a Redis cache that halved database cost and page load time.
- Wrote the contract tests that caught 30+ breaking API changes before release.
Education
Projects
Small library for token-bucket rate limiting with Redis, used in 3 internal services.
github.com/priyanair/rate-limit-kit
Skills
Java · Python · Spring Boot · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Kafka · Redis · AWS · Docker · REST APIs · System design
Certifications
- AWS Certified Developer, Associate, Amazon Web Services, 2024
Languages
English, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada
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