Priya Bibra
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPriya Bibra is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience building and operating scalable backend systems and platforms. She has driven production database reliability and security at Slack—contributing to Vitess, a prominent open-source MySQL clustering project—while designing enterprise identity and session-management features. Prior roles at NerdWallet and Ultimate Software reflect strong full‑stack and platform engineering chops, from React-driven user experiences to Java/Spring backend and queuing integrations. Priya combines hands-on DevOps work (nginx, caching, unprivileged images) with pragmatic security fixes and testing improvements, showing comfort across the stack and lifecycle. Known for shipping production-ready systems that balance performance, security, and operational simplicity, she brings an engineer’s attention to maintainability and real-world failure modes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (12)
vitess10
go10
nginx10
database-cluster10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
docker9
kubernetes9
databases8
database8
mysql8
cicd7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 12 commits, 18 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Priya Bibra's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `vtadmin` web component within the Vitess database clustering system. They worked on integrating and configuring the Nginx web server, optimizing caching mechanisms, and updating the codebase to utilize unprivileged images. Furthermore, Priya addressed a security vulnerability by updating a dependency and improved the overall functionality of the tablet picker component for vstream. Additionally, they made adjustments to testing and recovery-related code.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
pbibra/NuPack
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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