Summary
Priya Vaidya is a Staff Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with eight years in senior engineering roles and a longer track record of building large-scale systems across Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, and Netflix. She specializes in designing resilient, high-throughput data pipelines and distributed services—experience that ranges from stabilizing 1600+ updates/sec fulfillment pipelines at Amazon to leading Content Finance Engineering at Netflix. Priya combines hands-on architecture and team leadership, having managed cross-org programs, mentored engineers, and driven operational excellence for global products. She brings a pragmatic product mindset focused on quality and reliability, reflected in a GitHub persona that emphasizes detail and commitment. Notably, her background spans both deep platform engineering and customer-facing commerce features, giving her a rare fluency across backend infrastructure and marketplace/product integrations. Educated with an M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University, she thrives on turning complex requirements into dependable, production-grade systems.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington