Priyanka Shahheydari
Director Of Engineering at Symetra
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolPriyanka Shahheydari is a seasoned engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing software teams, now serving as Director of Engineering in Santa Barbara. She has a strong track record at cloud and SaaS companies like Flexera and RightScale, driving platform delivery, DevOps adoption, and cross-functional collaboration that consistently met delivery, budget, and customer-satisfaction goals. Priyanka excels at hiring complementary talent and establishing scalable practices—from automated testing to API-first microservices—that accelerate time-to-market and revenue generation. She combines hands-on technical judgment with strategic program execution, having hosted company-wide engineering and product summits to align stakeholders and surface innovation. With a Master’s in Computer Science from USC and early-career roots in QA and production support, she brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented perspective to reliability and operational excellence. Less obvious: she repeatedly turns post-release learnings into repeatable processes, turning firefighting experience into proactive engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Sardar Patel College of EngineeringSt. Anthony's High School - India
Github Skills (21)
cmp9
governance8
rightscale6
automation6
api3
api-client3
rails2
session-cookie2
go-client2
middleware2
ruby-on-rails2
golang2
command-line-tool2
rack2
large-scale1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rightscale/swagger-ui
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
Contributions:9 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
apicompliantjavascriptcsshtml-javascript
flexera-public/policy_sdk
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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