PRIYANKA K NARAYANAN

Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Strategic and hands-on Technical Leader with 17 years of experience in building high-performance, cloud-native product solutions. Expert in Informatica IDMC, specialized in designing robust Cloud Connectivity SDKs and high-scale connectors for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Highly skilled in mentoring cross-functional engineering teams and aligning technical roadmaps with core business objectives.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

STAFF ENGINEER

Informatica Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd

01.2015 - Current

Cross-Platform Connectivity: Architected the IDMC connectivity platform to enable seamless integration between Informatica connectors and external ecosystems like Salesforce and MuleSoft.Identify limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and processes.
Open Source Connector Strategy: Expanded the Informatica product suite by integrating and supporting open-source connectors alongside proprietary solutions.Produce, review and document high quality code within a progressive agile delivery team.
Architecting RAG Pipelines: Designed and implemented Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities within Informatica mappings by integrating embedding transformations and providing native support for Vector Database targets.
Advanced Data Processing: Spearheaded the development of Pushdown Optimization mechanisms for the Cloud Data Integration(CDI) pipeline, significantly improving processing efficiency by leveraging source-system compute.
Hackathon Grand Prize Winner: Won the Informatica Grand Prize for "Text Chaos to Structured Gold," using LLMs to structure unstructured data, and successfully steered the project from ideation to its official productization in the Structure Discovery Engine.

SYSTEM STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

IBM India Software Labs

01.2013 - 01.2015

Contributed to the design and development of core management modules for the System Z Storage Virtualization platform, focusing on the delivery of new features and functional improvements.
Resolved system complexities and improved component stability by analyzing and debugging intricate legacy software architectures.
Maintained high software quality standards by applying rigorous coding practices, and implementing comprehensive unit testing for all new feature deployments.

TECHNICAL PROJECT LEAD

Huawei Technologies

01.2007 - 01.2013

Actively contributed to High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) decision-making for software applications within the Huawei Reporting Solution.
Delivered end-to-end feature implementations, transitioning from finalized designs to full-scale coding, and comprehensive test case development.
Served as a technical lead, driving the development of efficient code, and ensuring high-quality software implementation.
Executed software performance enhancements and fine-tuning, utilizing industry-standard tools such as JProfiler and JMeter.
Worked across both backend and front-end technologies to deliver integrated technical solutions.

Education

Bachelor of Technology(BTech) - Computer Science And Engineering

Cochin University | Model Engineering College

Kerala, India

01.2007

Skills

Languages : Java, Scala, Python

Frameworks : Spring, Springboot

Data & Analytics: MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Spark, Hadoop, Google BigQuery, Redshift

Hobbies

Travel

Dance

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