๐Ÿ‘‹ Hello, I'm

Priya

Staff Software Engineer

I build reliable platforms and polished product surfaces โ€” from edge caching to data pipelines โ€” so teams ship faster without breaking production.

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About Me

Crafting Digital Excellence

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.

10y 4mo
Experience
5
Projects
21+
Technologies

Professional Journey

Experience

Building solutions and growing across teams โ€” timeline of roles and impact.

A
2022 โ€” Present

Staff Software Engineer

Aurora Compute
Berlin ยท Hybrid
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.
โšก 4y 4mo ยท current
H
2019 โ€” 2022

Senior Software Engineer

Helix Analytics
Stockholm
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 โ†’ read-replica strategy; cut P95 dashboard load by 55%.
PostgreSQL
โšก 4 yrs
N
2016 โ€” 2019

Software Engineer

Northbridge Labs
London
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.
โšก 4 yrs

Skills & Expertise

What I Do Best

Core craft

Languages, UI foundations, and day-to-day product engineering.

TypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsGo

Stack & tools

Frameworks, APIs, databases, and how features are implemented end to end.

PythonGraphQLPostgreSQLRedisKafkaDocker

Platform & delivery

Cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and shipping to production.

KubernetesTerraformAWSGCPGitHub ActionsPrometheus

Quality & collaboration

Quality practices, security patterns, tooling, and how I collaborate with teams.

GrafanaTailwind CSSFigma

Featured Work

Featured Projects

Nebula Control Plane

Live

Service catalog, environment promotion workflows, and integration with observability for safe deploys.

Next.jsTypeScriptKubernetesGoTemporal
View project โ†’

Signalstack

Live

OpenTelemetry-first collectors, Grafana Cloud integration, and SLO burn-rate alerts.

GrafanaOpenTelemetryPrometheusRust
View project โ†’

Meridian Design System

Live

Storybook, visual regression tests, and semantic versioning for cross-team adoption.

ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSStorybookVitest
View project โ†’

Ledgerline API

Live

PostgreSQL ledger tables, outbox pattern, and contract tests against payment sandboxes.

PostgreSQLGogRPCKafka
View project โ†’

CVtoSite (concept)

Live

Next.js app with MDX case studies and automatic skill inference from bullet points.

Next.jsTypeScriptMDXOpenAI API
View project โ†’

Technical Stack

Technologies & platforms

TypeScript
JavaScript
React
Next.js
Node.js
Go
Python
GraphQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Kafka
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
AWS
GCP
GitHub Actions
Prometheus
Grafana
Tailwind CSS
Figma

Education

M.Sc. Computer Science โ€” Distributed systems
TU Berlin
2016
2014 โ€” 2016
B.Eng. Software Engineering
University of Bristol
2014
2010 โ€” 2014

Certificates

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Professional

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCS)

Get In Touch

Let's Work Together

Ready to bring your ideas to life? Drop a message โ€” I'll get back as soon as I can.

Priya Narayan
Berlin, Germany ยท EU remote