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Priya Raman
Software Engineer, Backend
Backend engineer with six years building payment and billing systems in Go and TypeScript. Moved a monolith's billing to event-driven services handling 3 million invoices a month. Looking for a senior role on a platform team.
Experience
Software Engineer, Northwind Payments 2021–now
Billing and invoicing platform for 40,000 small businesses.
- Split billing out of the monolith into four Go services; invoice runs went from 6 hours to 40 minutes.
- Designed idempotent retries for card payments, cutting duplicate charges to zero over 18 months.
- Mentored three graduate engineers; two now own services of their own.
- On call for payments; wrote the runbooks the team uses for its five most common incidents.
Software Developer, Lumen Health 2018–2021
Appointment booking for 300 clinics.
- Built the booking API in Node.js and PostgreSQL that took 1.2 million bookings a year.
- Cut page load on the patient booking flow from 4.1s to 1.3s by caching clinic availability.
Education
BMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo 2018
Skills
- Languages: Go, TypeScript, SQL
- Backend: PostgreSQL, Kafka, gRPC, REST APIs
- Cloud: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
- Practices: Code review, Incident response, Mentoring