# Priyanka Bhalerao

> Principal Software Engineer at Workday

Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/priyankabhalerao

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) @ Workday
Jan 2022 – Present | Pleasanton, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) @ Workday
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Pleasanton, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | United States
- Developed applications like lockless migrations that deal with petabytes of data while considering GC
impact, throughput, I/O and memory usage. We migrated 30m users across HBase clusters using this application.

### Software Engineer III @ Yahoo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | United States
- Developed consistency management solutions for data stored on Yahoo! Mail’s Primary and Backup
metadata clusters
-  Worked on the design and development of multiple cross team project components in Yahoo! Mail like GDPR, IMAP-IN backend support and application features
- Led the load balancing component for metadata clusters by automating user mailbox migrations

### Software Engineer II @ Yahoo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale
Worked on the legacy and next- gen large scale systems that store and cache Yahoo! Mail metadata
and search data. The metadata system serves about 500B requests per day across 50 clusters.

Developed a solution for the lease server coordination system to reduce the user facing errors during software pushes. I received the Yahoo! Individual Superstar award in the year of 2014 for this project and other Yahoo! Mail contributions during the year.

### Course Grader @ University of Southern California
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Los Angeles
Course Grader for Computer Communications and Applied Cryptography in the Computer Science department.

### Graduate Technical Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Calabasas, CA

### Software Engineer @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
HP Integrated Lights-Out Management Processor (iLO) Testing for Rack and Blade servers
Integrated Lights Out (iLO) technology is used by administrators to manage servers in the data centre
remotely.
- Enhanced and developed test suites in Perl for the command line features of this technology.
- Developed a GUI testing process in the team by automating the web test cases.


Data Center Manageability Application Development on WebOS
- Part of a team that pioneered smart phone application development for Data centre management at
HP
- Developed a smart phone application called “Dynamic Smart Cooling” on WebOS using JavaScript
and Perl CGI.

### Project Intern @ Persistent Systems
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Optimizing application performance on multi core processors using Cilk++	
	             
Cilk++, an extension to C++ language, is a multicore programming language. It remarkably enhances application performance on multicore processors.
As a part of our project, we proved this claim by cilkifying a neural network application called Mikenet. 
Languages: Cilk++ and Visual Basic


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Cummins college of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/priyanka-bhalerao-51b79a45
- Portfolio: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~pbhalera/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12