# Priyanka R. > Staff-Level Backend Engineer | 10+ YOE @ Intuit | Distributed Systems | Fintech Platforms | API & Data Infrastructure Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/priyankar I’m a backend-focused software engineer with 11+ years of industry experience, including the last 9+ years at Intuit, where I’ve built high-concurrency, low-latency systems that power flagship products like QuickBooks, Mint, TurboTax, and Credit Karma. I specialize in designing durable, scalable backend services and APIs that enable seamless financial data aggregation and automation. My foundation spans platform reliability at Microsoft, backend development at PayPal, and a Master’s in Computer Science from Northeastern University — culminating in a strong blend of system-level thinking and product impact. I thrive at the intersection of engineering excellence and customer value — taking features from idea to production in collaboration with product, design, and infrastructure teams, while maintaining high standards for performance, maintainability, and operational excellence. I’m passionate about mentoring, platform thinking, and building systems that scale with the business. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Intuit Jan 2016 – Present At Intuit, I lead backend engineering for the IDX Platform — the central data exchange layer powering financial data aggregation across QuickBooks, TurboTax, Mint, and Credit Karma. I design and scale high-throughput APIs that process millions of transactions daily, with a strong focus on performance, consistency, and availability. I collaborate cross-functionally to deliver user-facing features through reusable platform components, while also mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, and advocating for engineering best practices across the organization. ### Software Engineer @ Intuit Jan 2016 – Present | Mountain View ### Software Developer Intern (Full-time Internship) @ Intuit Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View Intuit Inc. is one of the pioneer leaders in small business and personal financial management software solutions with flagship products – QuickBooks, TurboTax, Quicken and Mint. I was a part of the Platform team, whose aim is to work with personal and business financial data aggregated from numerous financial institutions and build robust feature set in order to keep providing the best quality experience to the offerings. While I was in the team, I worked towards developing backend services and writing reusable libraries to enable implementation of data analytics usecases. Tools and Technologies : Java, REST Web Services, Eclipse, Linux, HDFS, Hive, Code Collaborator, Maven, Git etc. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Northeastern University, Boston,MA Course : Intermediate Programming for Digital Media Course Description : Offers students an opportunity to extend the basic proficiency in scripting languages gained in DMG 6108 to more sophisticated programming tasks using an industry-standard scripting language such as JavaScript. Job Responsibilities : -- Assisted in developing teaching material/workshop content. -- Led workshops in classrooms. -- Assisted students in their coursework by leading laboratory sections and discussions on Piazza. ### Software Developer Coop (Full-time Internship) @ PayPal Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA As a Backend Software Developer Coop at Paypal Inc., I worked towards development and maintenance of scalable RESTful services to be used for location specific services by Paypal. I worked with projects which let me have the exposure towards some really cool tools and technologies like Sonar, Jenkins, Maven, Mongo, Jmeter and more. While the primary language used for development of the services was Java, I also had the opportunity to experiment and work with NodeJS in a side project. ### Software Engineer @ Accenture Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Accenture (Client: Microsoft) Analyst in Incident Management for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment and Business (led by XBOX 360, Kinect for XBOX, Surface, Microsoft Office, Lumia, Skype, Windows Media Center, Zune, and PC Hardware). Application debugging, testing production and UAT environment issues, anchoring major incident conference meetings, maintaining application availability, production and UAT server maintenance, resolving change requests. Technologies and Tools used : System Center Service Manager 2012, MS SQL Server 2008/2005, Windows Azure, XML, Web Services, Biztalk. ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science Northeastern University ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/areddypriyanka --- Source: https://flows.cv/priyankar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/priyankar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12