Professional Summary
12 Years of Experience
Engineering manager with 12 years building backend teams. Scaled 3 startups from Series A to IPO. Managed teams of 30+ engineers.
Experience
Engineering Manager
Full-time
Nov 2020 — Present
Lead 4 backend teams (28 engineers) across Search, Pricing, and Trust.
Current Role
Senior SWE → Tech Lead
Full-time
May 2016 — Oct 2020
Led Ride Matching infrastructure. Built dispatch system handling 5M+ rides per day.
Software Engineer II
Full-time
Jul 2012 — Apr 2016
Amazon Logistics — last-mile delivery routing algorithms.
Education
University of Washington
M.S. Computer Science • Distributed Systems
IIT Delhi
B.Tech Computer Science • Computer Science
Gold Medalist.
Skills & Expertise
Other
Engineering Leadership
96%
Distributed Systems
94%
Go / Java
91%
Kubernetes
88%
Projects
Featured
Dispatch v3 — Real-time Ride Matching
Completed
Rebuilt Lyft's core ride-matching engine. Reduced match latency from 800ms to 90ms at 5M rides/day.
Live
Languages
English
Fluent
Hindi
Native
Punjabi
Native
Awards & Achievements
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Selected as a 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration scholarship recipient.
Testimonials
Priya is the kind of engineering leader who makes everyone around her better.
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Wei Zhang
VP Engineering • Airbnb