PRIYA WALIA
Seattle,WA
Summary
Senior Software Engineering Leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience on designing, implementing and maintaining highly scalable systems. Currently at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), I am the Tech Lead for the Infrastructure delivery team, responsible for accelerating and optimizing OCI's AI infrastructure delivery to scale the growing needs of OCI's hyper scale customers. My expertise includes:
- Building scalable microservices with great operational hygiene
- Delivering products from ground-up involving various product life cycle processes which include product requirements, technical research & design, implementation & testing, public release, operations, documentation and usage metrics
- Delivering time sensitive projects while keeping the team morale high
- Scalable system design, Data Structures, Algorithms, RESTful Web Services, Java, SQL
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Member Of Technical Staff
Oracle
Seattle, WA
05.2019 - Current
- Tech Lead in the Infrastraucture Delivery team, responsible for services and tools that address all aspects of Data Center Rollout and its Physical Assets Lifecycle in Cloud IAAS space.
- Architected and implemented a service enabling data center operators to seamlessly execute repairs across diverse asset categories within a data center.
- Designed public and internal APIs for Repair Management Service.
- Prior to Infrastructure Delivery Team, I lead a team of engineers to design and implement Organizations service, which enables enterprise customers to create and manager their cloud subscriptions.
- Led and successfully delivered the project to support multi-cloud integration of OCI and Azure which enables Azure customers to use Oracle Database services in Azure environment.
- Prior to this, I led a team of engineers to design and implement Governance rules which provide OCI customers ability to create and attach rules to their accounts in an organization.
- Significantly improved team operational hygiene by developing automated incident handling solutions.
- Regularly work with senior leadership to set up long term and short term goals. This also includes keeping the stakeholders in loop in case of scope/timeline/risk changes.
- Appreciated for the ability to jump on hot customer escalations and resolve incidents with 'Customers First' mindset.
Senior Software Engineer
Nordstrom
Greater Seattle Area
01.2019 - 04.2019
- Worked in the Price and Promotions platform to create a cloud-based highly scalable and available system that acts as the single source of truth for pricing, promotions and tax for different systems.
Vice President
Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru, India
06.2011 - 04.2018
- Worked in System Reliability Engineering team in Platforms Division to streamline production management with focus on surfacing any alerts which require human intervention to users and provides capabilities which help in diagnosis and resolution of alerts.
- Architected and delivered Alert Support Management System with scalable design to streamline production operations and management workflows.
- Leveraging on a sound leadership ability, ensured timely delivery by collaborating with global stakeholders without any customer impact.
- Identifying users’ needs to foster a deep understanding of requirements.
- Scoping the requirements and categorizing them into different workstreams.
- Prioritizing the user stories into biweekly sprints leveraging Agile methodologies to effectively plan successful delivery under tight timelines.
- Mentor junior developers providing rich software development experience.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
India06.2011
Skills
- Cloud architecture
- API Design
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems
- Software Architecture
- REST
- System architecture design
Timeline
Principal Member Of Technical Staff
Oracle
05.2019 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Nordstrom
01.2019 - 04.2019
Vice President
Goldman Sachs
06.2011 - 04.2018
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra