Priya
Narayan
Staff Software Engineer
I build reliable platforms and polished product surfaces — from edge caching to data pipelines — so teams ship faster without breaking production.
About
I'm a staff-level engineer focused on the space between product and infrastructure. I've led migrations to event-driven architectures, rolled out design systems used by 40+ engineers, and partnered with PMs to turn fuzzy requirements into measurable outcomes. Before Aurora I spent several years in high-growth B2B SaaS, where I learned to optimize for learning speed: small releases, strong observability, and documentation that actually gets read. I care about accessibility, clear ownership boundaries, and codebases that welcome new contributors. Outside of work I mentor early-career engineers, speak occasionally at local meetups, and contribute to open tools around developer experience.
Tech stack
Experience
• Lead the developer platform squad (8 engineers): paved paths for services, CI/CD, and internal APIs. • Introduced SLOs and error-budget policy; reduced Sev-1 incidents by 42% YoY. • Partnered with design on a component library adopted across 6 product lines. • Mentoring staff candidates and junior leads; hiring loop for senior ICs.
• Owned real-time ingestion for 12B+ events/month; moved critical paths from batch to streaming. • Built self-serve data exports that unlocked a new enterprise tier. • Drove Postgres → read-replica strategy; cut P95 dashboard load by 55%.
• Feature work on multi-tenant auth, billing, and admin tooling for mid-market SaaS. • Introduced integration tests and contract tests between services; fewer regressions in releases.
Selected projects
Service catalog, environment promotion workflows, and integration with observability for safe deploys.
OpenTelemetry-first collectors, Grafana Cloud integration, and SLO burn-rate alerts.
Storybook, visual regression tests, and semantic versioning for cross-team adoption.
PostgreSQL ledger tables, outbox pattern, and contract tests against payment sandboxes.
Next.js app with MDX case studies and automatic skill inference from bullet points.
Open to
new challenges
Based in Berlin, Germany · EU remote. Reach out by email or send a message below when contact is enabled on Devfio.
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