Priya Sharma
Backend Engineer • Cloud
Summary
Backend engineer with 3 years of experience building Python and Go services on AWS. I like making slow systems fast and keeping them easy to run.
Work experience
Project: UPI Payments Gateway · Client: In-house · Technologies: Go, PostgreSQL, AWS
- Built a payments API in Go that handles 2M requests a day with 99.95% uptime.
- Cut report generation time from 40 minutes to 6 by moving batch jobs to AWS Lambda.
- Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions, so releases went from weekly to daily.
- Added Redis caching to the merchant lookup, bringing p95 latency down from 180ms to 35ms.
- Mentored 2 new engineers and ran the team's weekly code reviews.
- Wrote Python services for an inventory platform used by 300+ retail stores.
- Moved 40 cron jobs to a queue-based worker system, ending missed nightly runs.
- Wrote integration tests that raised coverage from 45% to 80%.
- Built an internal admin dashboard in React that the support team uses every day.
Projects
- Open-source log search tool that queries 50GB of logs in under 2 seconds.
- 300+ stars on GitHub; used by two small startups in production.
- Bill-splitting app with UPI payment links, used by 1,000+ students at COEP.
Education
Final-year project: real-time fraud detection on UPI transactions
Technical skills
| Languages | Go, Python, SQL, TypeScript |
|---|---|
| Cloud & tools | AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3), Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis |
| Practices | REST APIs, CI/CD, unit and integration testing, system design |
Achievements
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate (2024).
- Winner, Smart India Hackathon 2021 (software edition).
