Priyadarshini K

Around 8+ years of professional IT experience as a Senior Full Stack developer and demonstrated ability to successfully implement complex large-scale, N-tier, distributed, real-time enterprise applications. High-impact infrastructure architect and technical leader specializing in building resilient, scalable, and secure cloud backends for next-generation vehicle ecosystems. Deeply experienced in translating complex mobility strategies into highly available, edge-to-cloud software realities.

Acted as a trusted advisor to enterprise architects and executive stakeholders; mentored and inspired multi-disciplinary engineering squads to elevate software delivery standards and security guardrails. Championed an "automation-first" culture across the enterprise, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and standardized self-service platform capabilities to eliminate fragmented legacy patterns and systemic operational toil.

Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Toyota Motors North America (2024-08 – 2025-10)

Performance-driven Principal SRE with a proven track record of leading platform stabilization, cloud scaling, and disaster recovery readiness for Toyota Motor North America's Connected Technologies group. Expert in modernizing and safeguarding the distributed cloud backends behind Toyota and Lexus multimedia systems. Adept at balancing rapid feature deployment with rigid high-availability baselines, ensuring millions of connected vehicles receive uninterrupted edge services, OTA updates, and critical infotainment telemetry.

• Designed and optimized cloud-native architectures capable of handling massive, concurrent API workloads and high-throughput telemetry streams from vehicle edge networks.
• Implemented enterprise-wide observability frameworks such as DATADOG for distributed tracing, metrics, logging tailored for vehicle-to-cloud ecosystems, drastically reducing MTTR for critical infotainment and navigation systems.
• Standardized enterprise cloud environments utilizing advanced Terraform scripting, establishing immutable infrastructure baselines that eliminated environmental drift and deployment friction.
• Optimized AWS containerized microservices handling real-time telemetry and multimedia requests for millions of active Toyota and Lexus head units, improving platform availability to 98%.
• Orchestrated and supported critical, zero-downtime deployment windows and release pipelines spanning both the US and Australian regions, ensuring seamless continuous delivery across differing time zones and regulatory landscapes.
• Led high-priority incident management and performed deep-dive reverse engineering of Java application code to identify systemic issues, providing developers with prescriptive code-level fixes to optimize runtime performance and helping development teams to properly manage their services with Code-Level Debugging.
• Possesses deep expertise in enterprise telemetry, leveraging Datadog to design custom application-layer metrics and APM tracing that proactively alert on systemic drift.
• Deployed and tuned Datadog agents across large-scale Kubernetes clusters; formulated custom application metrics and SLI/SLO dashboards for vehicle telematics, resulting in an 80% reduction in MTTR for connected services.

Full Stack Java Developer at Western Alliance Bank (2023-08 – 2024-07)

Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of the application like Requirement gathering, Design, Analysis, and Code development.

• Developed web services (REST API) using Spring, Spring Boot, REST Architecture, used for storing and retrieving data using different URIs and HTTP methods.
• Used MVC pattern to develop the Model, View, and Controller using Spring MVC, React and Restful service with Hibernate framework.
• Worked on React.JS like text binding and writing classes using raw JavaScript and JSX files and developing user interface by using React JS, Redux, React Router for SPA development.
• Used Spring Data JPA and Hibernate with entity beans for interacting persistence layer for CRUD operations.
• Implemented Stateless Security policies using spring security and JWT tokens with customized signatures. Used OAuth for authorization of the user to the application.
• Involved in writing of multiple batch jobs using Spring Batch framework where both annotation & XML-based configuration is done to support various business requirements.