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Priya
Nair

Senior Software Engineer  ·  Distributed Systems

I build the systems behind products that scale. 7 years designing and operating distributed infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer tooling — most recently at Forma Cloud, processing 800M events per day.

7 yrs
Industry Experience
800M
Events / Day Processed
99.98%
System Uptime Delivered
14+
Open Source Contributions
Location
Berlin, Germany
Remote · Hybrid · On-site
Languages
English · Native
Hindi · Fluent
German · B2
Open to roles · Q3 2026
01.

Work Experience

2022 — Present
Forma Cloud
Berlin, DE · Hybrid
Senior Software Engineer — Platform

Core member of the platform team building the event ingestion and processing infrastructure. Own the reliability and performance of our 800M events/day pipeline.

  • Redesigned the event routing layer, reducing p99 latency from 380ms to 42ms.
  • Led the Kafka → Redpanda migration, cutting infrastructure cost by 34% with zero downtime.
  • Mentored 4 engineers through promotion cycles; introduced RFC process adopted team-wide.
2020 — 2022
Helios Systems
London, UK · On-site
Software Engineer — Backend

Built and maintained microservices for a fintech platform processing £2B in annual transactions. Focused on payment orchestration and fraud detection.

  • Built a real-time fraud scoring service handling 12,000 requests/second with 99.97% uptime.
  • Introduced contract testing across 6 services, reducing integration incidents by 60%.
2018 — 2020
DataGrid Ltd
Edinburgh, UK
Junior Software Engineer

Full-stack development on a B2B analytics SaaS. Built data visualisation features and helped migrate a legacy monolith to service-oriented architecture.

  • Shipped dashboard feature used by 800+ enterprise clients, received highest CSAT in product history.
02.

Selected Projects

Open Source 2024
streamkit

High-throughput event streaming library for Go. Abstracts Kafka, Redpanda, and Pulsar with a unified API. 2.1k GitHub stars.

Go Kafka gRPC Protobuf
github.com/priyanair/streamkit →
Internal Tool 2023
Deploy Control Plane

Internal CI/CD orchestration system managing 400+ daily deploys across 12 services. Reduced deploy time by 58% and eliminated deploy-related incidents.

Kubernetes Argo Python Terraform
Internal — case study on request →
Research 2022
Adaptive Load Shedding

Research into priority-based load shedding algorithms for distributed systems under peak load. Published and presented at SREcon EMEA 2023.

Distributed Systems Go Prometheus
Read paper →
03.

Tech Stack

Languages
Go
Python
TypeScript
Rust
Infrastructure
Kubernetes
AWS
Terraform
Docker
Data & Messaging
Kafka
PostgreSQL
Redis
ClickHouse
Observability
Prometheus
Grafana
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
04.

Education & Certifications

Education

BEng Computer Science
University of Edinburgh
2014 — 2018 · First Class Honours
Distributed Systems Course
MIT OpenCourseWare
2021 · Completed

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect — Professional
Amazon Web Services · 2023
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
CNCF · 2022
Google Professional Data Engineer
Google Cloud · 2021
05.

Contact

Open to new
opportunities

Looking for senior or staff-level engineering roles in infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems. Happy to discuss remote or Berlin-based positions.

Available from Q3 2026