Summary
Briana Vargas is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building and leading resilient, user-focused full-stack systems at scale. Currently at Atlassian after a multi-role tenure at Capital One, she led the Enterprise Self-Service Incident Management Platform that has handled 25k+ incidents and serves 50K+ internal users and over 100M customers. She combines hands-on engineering—designing GraphQL microservices, NeptuneDB graph models, and AWS-driven automation—with technical leadership that improves performance, reliability, and incident recovery times. Briana has a track record of shipping high-throughput communication systems (10M+ messages/year) and automating cross-region failover processes, demonstrating both product sensibility and operational rigor. Trained at UT Austin, she brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to cross-functional collaboration and platform-level problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin