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Priyanka Tarar

Dublin

Summary

Seasoned software engineer and architect with 23+ years of experience in designing and developing large-scale distributed systems with ultra-low latency requirements. Proven track record of upholding and enhancing technical excellence within organizations. Skilled in engineering management, team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration, successfully aligning teams and driving progress in major enterprises.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Engineering Lead /Principal Software Engineer

Capital One
01.2023 - Current

STASH ( Authorizations Streaming Platform ) -Architect/Principal Engineer for designing / developing streaming pipeline supporting Capital One modern core with very large volumes of data and super low latency ingestion processes - specifically for credit card authorizations.

  • Led the overall design , development for pipeline using Apache Flink, Kafka , REST
  • Designed and developed for performance , scale , resilience , availability , data quality and reconciliation.

STASH ( Storage Hubs )

  • Architect/Principal Engineer for designing / developing streaming for Capital One modern core supporting very large volumes of data and super low latency ingestion processes.
  • Led the overall design for configuration based storage hubs, data model, key attributes , global and secondary indexes , read / write access patterns from datastore etc.
  • Designed feature flows using reusable components , libraries such that when new use cases are introduced they can easily be implemented with minimal reinvention.

Cassandra Decommission - DynamoDb Migration

  • Engineering Lead for designing / developing Amazon DynamoDB based modern storage hubs for storing large scale CapitalOne credit card accounts and transactions (billions) as a replacement for legacy and costly data stores.
  • Responsible for overall data model, solution design for daily delta ingestion , one time seeding of very large volumes of data.
  • Oversaw the end to end delivery of the final product in production with multiple teams / stakeholders involved in the process.

MTS / Architect

PayPal
06.2018 - 09.2022

Merchant Servicing - Dual Control
-Architect / Principal Engineer for Dual Control Feature - in use in many Paypal money movement flows like withdrawal, payouts , send money, user management etc. -Responsible
for overall technical design of the feature / individual product flows - review with key stakeholders
, senior architecture approval . Key cross team engagement.
-Responsible for design / development / integration testing / production deployment and support
of REST services at the core of the feature.
Merchant Servicing - Braintree / Paypal Unification
-Technical Lead / Principal Engineer for roles unification .
-SME for roles unification and how Braintree and Paypal can authorize based off roles. -Responsible for overall technical design / development / PPaaS approval / execution of REST services -Mentoring
Merchant Servicing - Personalization
-Tech. Lead / Senior Engineer for merchant product recommendations .
- In progress work to design , develop a common personalization layer that can be used to get common merchant insights like industry , segment , permissions, onboarded products etc.

Principal Software Engineer, YQL / Cloud Servicing

Yahoo
07.2011 - 03.2018

Jul 2011 - Mar 2018 (6 years 9 months)

YQL ( Yahoo Query Language) Lead / Senior Engineer for YQL (a data orchestration platform hosting globally available Yahoo developed applications), powering many major yahoo properties (homepage, sports, news,weather,mail etc).
-Responsible for developing many key features in YQL - for use by other Yahoo applications. -Single handedly designed and integrated apple finance app with the YQL platform across all
geo locations supporting all iphone stock widget traffic.
Evangelized CI/CD for YQL
-Responsible for porting the YQL container to yahoo’s next generation cloud platform -Automated rollout of YQL code to all deployment clusters (~2000) spread across 6 geo locations. -Mentoring new team members, responsible for NCGs day to day work

Sr Software Engineer

Cisco Systems
10.2009 - 07.2011

-Designed and implemented features/process extensions in Agile PLM using java, Hibernate, Oracle db and spring framework.
-Collaborate with different system teams to identify integration requirements. Work closely to establish technical vision.

Sr Software Engineer

Apple Inc.
01.2009 - 09.2009

- Part of Apple's core shared services platform group.
- Designed and developed S&P Monitoring tool responsible for health check of the async system - supporting millions of transaction per hour.
- Performance testing and optimizations for supporting such high volume of transactions.

Sr Software Engineer

Cisco
12.2006 - 12.2008

-Designed and implemented features/process extensions in Agile PLM using java, Hibernate, Oracle db and spring framework.
-Collaborate with different system teams to identify integration requirements. Work closely to establish technical vision.

Technical Lead / Manager

Tech Mahindra
06.2005 - 09.2006

Worked as the Project Lead managing offshore projects and offshore team of 5 engineers. Built integration features for various applications.

Sr Software Engineer, Performance Engineering

Tavant
06.2004 - 06.2005

Performance engineering initiative for an application meant to enable a market leader in mortgage in sub prime sector.

Software Engineer

Infosys
07.2001 - 06.2004

Worked in the core group for design and development of Finacle suite of products for banks.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology (NIT Allahabad)
Allahabad , India
01.2001

Skills

Programming Languages : Java , Go , Python , Perl , Shell Scripting, C/C

Architecture : REST, GraphQL , Microservices, Distributed Systems , Data Streaming

Data Streaming : Apache Flink , Kafka

Cloud Provider : AWS , GCP , Manhattan ( Yahoo's on prem private cloud solution)

NoSQL : Dynamo, DocumentDB

RDBMS : Oracle , MySQL

Data / Markup : XML, CSS , HTML , JSON, AVRO

IDE : Eclipse, Intellij , VSCode

Source Code Control : Git

CI/CD : Hudson, Jenkins , Ansible , Terraform, Cloudformation

Container Management : Docker , Kubernetes

Performance Test Tools : JProbe , OptimizeIt, LoadRunner , HttPerf, JMeter

Others : Redis , Memcached

Certification

AWS Cloud Certification

Profile

linkedin.com/in/priyanka-tarar

Timeline

Engineering Lead /Principal Software Engineer

Capital One
01.2023 - Current

MTS / Architect

PayPal
06.2018 - 09.2022

Principal Software Engineer, YQL / Cloud Servicing

Yahoo
07.2011 - 03.2018

Sr Software Engineer

Cisco Systems
10.2009 - 07.2011

Sr Software Engineer

Apple Inc.
01.2009 - 09.2009

Sr Software Engineer

Cisco
12.2006 - 12.2008

Technical Lead / Manager

Tech Mahindra
06.2005 - 09.2006

Sr Software Engineer, Performance Engineering

Tavant
06.2004 - 06.2005

Software Engineer

Infosys
07.2001 - 06.2004

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology (NIT Allahabad)
Priyanka Tarar