Priya Nandavaram
Milton Keynes
Summary
Seasoned Cloud Software Engineer with 11 years of experience in designing and maintaining resilient software systems across diverse sectors. Skilled in full-stack development with C#, .NET, Angular, and cloud-based microservices. Utilises AI-assisted tools to enhance delivery and code quality while ensuring thorough validation. Experienced in Agile environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to guide technical direction and embed testing strategies for reliable production systems.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Developer
NEXT PLC
Enderby
01.2024 - 09.2026
- Within Next, we work in the Search Enablers distributed Team where our Global Feed Service is responsible for the backend services that process, transform, and distribute large-scale product data feeds consumed by frontend applications and external marketing/search systems. All the products that you see on the Next sites will be internally fed by our data feeds. We act as a middleware component, retrieving item data from the upstream component (PIM), processing it with our backend services, and generating data feeds in JSON. The feeds will be sent to Bloomreach(third-party) for further processing, which is later on consumed by the front team via Bloomreach API calls.
- Developed and deployed an event-driven stock updates processing pipeline using C#/.NET Core, Azure Blob Storage, and RabbitMQ to process stock updates for all the NEXT items every 10-minutes and massive weekly data runs.
- Guided architecture and developer mentorship while delivering hands-on code and experienced in the full software development lifecycle, including analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
- Integrated custom-built software solutions with third-party platforms (Bloomreach) and internal PIM components, ensuring optimal system performance and operational scalability.
- Deeply embedded AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, LLMs) into daily SDLC workflows for rapid prototyping, code completion, unit test generation, and responsible AI-output validation.
- Optimized SQL Server database objects and improved the performance of SQL Stored Procedures and T-SQL objects.
- Collaborated with Software Architects and cross-functional Leads on technical direction, release management, story estimation, and risk identification for core business systems.
- Acted as a technical mentor for junior and mid-level engineers, enforcing coding standards, unit testing practices (NUnit), and peer code reviews.
- Proactive in handling and resolving P1 & P2 incidents raised by Clients or cross-functional teams by identifying the root cause within a short span of time and implementing the long-term fix.
- Active part of an Agile team and drives the daily scrums, bi-weekly retrospectives, and other sprint ceremonies.
- Handles BAU activities and actively responds to stakeholders' queries and support on-call activities during NEXT VIP SALE & SALE periods.
Software Specialist
Mastek UK
London
01.2022 - 01.2024
- Within NHS England, the main area we focus on is the Pathways module where our module is used to build and maintain the content and algorithms that services use to safely triage 111 and 999 calls. We deal with various applications within our Pathways module where the Pathways Authoring Tool (PAT) is used as a database for creating care advice, questions, dispositions, and the outcome of the PAT integrates with VPAT to design the pathways using the PAT content. We also deal with Pathways Web, which is mainly used by NHS staff to demo clinical triage in a safe environment for training and testing purposes.
- Collaborated with Product Owners and Clinical Architects to build resilient, customer-focused software applications (PAT, VPAT, Pathways Web).
- Modernized legacy module components into cloud-ready microservices, implementing RESTful APIs and event-driven data flows.
- End-to-end full-stack ownership of features, ensuring zero-downtime releases and strict adherence to SOLID design principles.
- Enhanced observability and system monitoring to proactively catch operational issues before impacting end users.
- Contributed to team engineering standards, promoting automated unit testing, peer reviews, and clean code principles.
Lead Consultant
Virtusa, UK
London
07.2021 - 01.2022
- Developed secure RESTful Web APIs using C# and ASP.NET for retail banking services.
- Delivered backend services supporting customer-facing banking applications.
- Worked within Agile Scrum teams collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
- Participated in production deployments and post-release support.
- Maintained high standards of secure coding, code reviews, and software quality.
- Virgin Money is a financial services brand that provides its users with various services.
Senior Analyst
Deloitte India (US Offices)
Hyderabad
02.2019 - 06.2021
- ERM is one of Deloitte's internal portals and is widely used by Deloitte entities like Tax, Consulting, Audit, and Advisory to archive highly confidential project files (Electronic files & Physical files), which we'll further communicate to open text.
- Worked in an agile team of .NET developers for a fast-paced software development firm.
- Designed robust client-server communication models and data transformation pipelines, ensuring fault tolerance and uninterrupted uptime.
- Successfully migrated a legacy application to the cloud using Angular 7, HTML, ASP.NET Core, and MySQL.
- Proactive in solving P1 & P2 incidents during production activities and experienced in performing BCP for the application.
Software Engineer
Ness Technologies
Hyderabad
09.2017 - 02.2019
- S&P Ratings 360 is a credit rating agency that provides standard ratings to organizations (BOA, IBM, JPMC, and so on) and even to sovereigns as well. Our users perform search operations using the application and to create alerts with specified criteria to get notified frequently.
- Gained good experience in developing stored procedures, user functions, CTE's, Views, Nested queries, and SQL Server 2008 R2.
Associate Engineer
Virtusa Consultancy Services
Hyderabad
03.2015 - 09.2017
- LQT is a portal in BT UK SALES TOOL that users use for quoting LAN, SVPN, and IPT devices used in the telecom domain. LQT also offers ample services based on the device the user selects. LQT also captures all the user info, like device type, services associated with the devices, user billing address, price, and discount offered on the entire quote.
- Ads & Entertainment is used by the AD Sales users and executives for keeping track of advertisements being published in different networks. Also, we calculate dollar amounts for each advertisement based on the Forecast year, agency, and advertiser combination. Calculating the dollar amounts will again be split based on user selection; dollar amounts and the others will be calculated accordingly.
- Performed SDLC using Microsoft .NET technologies like ASP.Net, C#.NET, and SQL Server.
- Worked on modern technologies to develop the application using Web API, Angular 2, C#.Net, and Entity Framework.
- Built applications using 3-layer architecture and developed new DB objects in SQL Server 2008 R2.
- Handling CR's and Bridge cases raised during production and supported the deployment team during major story releases.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science
JNTU
IndiaSkills
- Backend Development
- C#
- ASPNet MVC 5
- ASPNet Core
- REST API Integration
- Entity Framework
- LINQ
- ADONet
- Frontend Development
- Angular
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Cloud & DevOps
- Azure Functions
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure DevOps
- Architecture & Reliability
- Event-driven architecture
- Client-Server Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- SOLID principles
- Design patterns
- Object-oriented programming
- Microservices
- Database & Messaging
- MS-SQL
- TSQL
- Query Optimization
- Performance Profiling
- MySQL
- RabbitMQ stream processing
- Caching strategies
- Engineering Excellence
- Test-driven development
- TDD
- Unit testing
- Mocking
- NUnit
- Moq
- Methodology & Tools
- Remote Agile
- Scrum
- Visual Studio 2019
- Visual Studio 2022
- VS Code
- AI-Assisted Development
- GitHub Copilot
- ChatGPT
- Gemini AI
- AI-assisted code generation
- Reliability & Operations
- Production support
- Incident management
- Monitoring
- Technical Leadership & Delivery
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Mentorship
- Team player
Custom
C#, ASP.Net MVC 5, ASP.Net Core, REST API Integration, Entity Framework, LINQ, ADO.Net, Angular(SPA), TypeScript, JavaScript, Azure Functions, Azure Blob Storage, Azure DevOps, Event-driven architecture, Client-Server Architecture, Distributed Systems, SOLID principles, Design patterns, object-oriented programming, Microservices, MS-SQL (TSQL, Query Optimization), Performance Profiling, MySQL, RabbitMQ stream processing, Caching strategies, Test-driven development(TDD), Unit testing and mocking (NUnit, Moq), Remote Agile (Scrum), Visual Studio 2019/2022, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini AI, AI-assisted code generation, Production support, Incident management, Monitoring, Stakeholder Engagement, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Mentorship, Team player
Timeline
Software Developer
NEXT PLC
01.2024 - 09.2026
Software Specialist
Mastek UK
01.2022 - 01.2024
Lead Consultant
Virtusa, UK
07.2021 - 01.2022
Senior Analyst
Deloitte India (US Offices)
02.2019 - 06.2021
Software Engineer
Ness Technologies
09.2017 - 02.2019
Associate Engineer
Virtusa Consultancy Services
03.2015 - 09.2017
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science
JNTU