Priya Nair
@priya.nair
Vetted expertSoftware · Hyderabad, India
Staff Engineer. Helping teams ship reliable, scalable software.
Packages
Fixed scope and fixed price. Order an outcome, not hours.
Code & architecture review
$400A focused, fixed-scope engagement delivering a clear outcome. Includes a kickoff call, the work itself, and a walkthrough of results.
About
Priya Nair is a Staff Engineer with 7+ years of experience helping teams ship reliable, scalable software. Recent engagements have focused on AWS, Rust and Go. Based in Hyderabad, India, Priya works with startups and scale-ups that need senior expertise without a full-time hire.
Problems I solve
• Mentoring engineers and raising code quality • Setting up CI/CD and testing teams actually trust • Cutting infrastructure cost while improving reliability
Selected work
Real outcomes, not promises.
Re-architected a monolith into services
Cut deploy time 80%Broke a fragile monolith into cleanly-bounded services with CI/CD and automated tests, so the team could ship daily.
Scaled a platform for a traffic spike
5M requests/day, zero downtimeIntroduced caching, queues and horizontal scaling ahead of a major launch.
Experience
Staff Engineer
2022 to nowVirtusa · Hyderabad, India
Took the product to profitability
Worked directly with leadership on the problems that mattered most to the business.
Senior Software
2015 to 2018Daraz · Hyderabad, India
Halved onboarding drop-off
Worked directly with leadership on the problems that mattered most to the business.
Education
University of Colombo
BSc, Electrical Engineering
2013 to 2017
Certifications
Languages
Reviews
★★★★★ 5.0 (1)Professional, thorough, and results-driven.