Priya Komal Malhotra

CTO at Spindle Analytics · Distributed databases

Spindle Analytics

Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

13+ years experience

Manipal Institute of Technology

English, Hindi

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Overview

Based in Gurugram. I lead distributed databases at Spindle Analytics. Wrote the RocksDB service that now handles 45 million requests a day. Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Tata Motors and KPMG. Most at home with Raft and performance engineering. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

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RocksDBRaftperformance engineeringRustconsensusC++

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Looking for a backend engineer who has worked on consensus at scale

Role: Backend engineer
Level: Mid
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Remote within country
Compensation: ₹18-90 LPA
Team: Storage, 13 people
Start: Within two months
Must have: Production experience with RocksDB Production experience with performance engineering Comfort with ambiguity
Process: Decision within 10 days

Comp ₹21-70 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Gurugram, Indiaraftrustconsensus

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Experience

CTO
Jun 2024 - Present
Spindle Analytics · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
- Built the experimentation framework 26 product teams use to ship changes safely.
- Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
- Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 566ms to 51ms.
Staff Software Engineer
Aug 2020 - Jun 2024
Tata Motors · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
- Led the migration of 46 services to Raft.
- Reduced cloud spend on storage by 31% in two quarters.
Software Engineer
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
KPMG · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 3.
Software Engineer
Dec 2013 - Jul 2017
ITC · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 4.
- Wrote the Rust service that now handles 83 million requests a day.

Projects

Side project: a habit tracker

2026

Built with consensus and RocksDB. 4194 people used it last year.

Open-source performance engineering toolkit

2026

A small library for distributed databases that 262 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Manipal Institute of Technology
B.Tech, Mathematics
2008 - 2012

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