Priya Raman
Software Engineer
priya.raman@email.com | (206) 555-0134 | Seattle, WA | linkedin.com/in/priyaraman | github.com/priyaraman
Professional Summary
Software engineer with 4 years of experience building backend services and web apps in Java, TypeScript and React. Owns features from design doc to production, on systems serving 2 million monthly users. Strong in API design, performance work and code review.
Work Experience
Software Engineer II
2023 – Present
Cartwheel Commerce
- Rebuilt the checkout pricing service in Java and Spring Boot, cutting p95 latency from 820 ms to 210 ms during sale traffic.
- Designed the REST and event APIs for split payments, now used by 3 teams and 40% of orders.
- Moved 14 services to Kubernetes with Helm charts and GitHub Actions, taking deploys from weekly to daily.
- Mentored 2 junior engineers through their first on-call rotations.
Software Engineer
2021 – 2023
Ledgerly
- Built the invoicing dashboard in React and TypeScript used by 18,000 small businesses.
- Wrote a PostgreSQL query layer with caching in Redis that removed 60% of database reads.
- Raised test coverage on the billing module from 35% to 85% and stopped a run of repeat bugs.
Education
BS, Computer Science
2017 – 2021
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Skills
Languages: Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
Frameworks: Spring Boot, React, Node.js, Express
Cloud and tools: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Git, GitHub Actions
Projects
Open-source rate limiter
2022
Go, Redis | github.com/priyaraman/bucket
Token-bucket rate limiter library with 600 GitHub stars, used in production by two startups.
Certificates
AWS Certified Developer – Associate, Amazon Web Services
2023