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Priya Sharma — backend engineer

I build APIs that stay fast at scale. Five years across payments and infrastructure; currently deep in distributed queues.

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// projects

queue-pilot★ 2.1k

A dead-simple job queue for Node with exactly-once semantics.

TypeScriptRedis
pg-lens★ 840

Explain-plan visualizer that finds your slowest Postgres query in seconds.

GoPostgres
hookline★ 460

Webhook delivery with retries, signatures, and a replay UI.

RustSQLite
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No frameworks, 100/100 Lighthouse, deployed from a git push.

HTMLCSS

// stack

Languages

TypeScript · Go · Rust · SQL

Data

Postgres · Redis · Kafka · S3

Infra

Docker · Terraform · AWS · Grafana

Practices

TDD · tracing · on-call that doesn't page at 3am

// experience

  1. 2023—now
    Senior Backend Engineer · Paylane

    Own the ledger service: 40k writes/s, five nines, boring on purpose.

  2. 2021—23
    Backend Engineer · Shiply

    Built order tracking from zero to 2M packages/day.

  3. 2019—21
    Engineer · Agency work

    Everything from CMS builds to a bank's internal tooling.

3.4kGitHub stars
212PRs merged this year
9Packages maintained
99.99%Uptime owned

// writing

// contact

Open to senior/staff backend roles and interesting consulting.