Priya Sana Nair

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Senior Software Engineer, Xero - learning to rank · A/B testing · Scala

Xero
Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)
3+ years experience
University of Malaya
English, Mandarin
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Overview

I've spent 3 years on search and ranking - first at Grab, now at Xero. Shipped 27 launches on the search team without a rollback. Most at home with Elasticsearch and learning to rank. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

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Skills
PythonElasticsearchA/B testinglearning to rankJavaScalaLucene

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer
    May 2026 - Present
    Xero · 5 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 34% in two quarters.
    • Grew the search team from 3 to 39 engineers.
  2. Software Engineer
    Apr 2024 - May 2026
    Grab · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 5.
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 29 a week to 4.

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Education

  1. University of Malaya
    BSc, Information Technology
    2019 - 2023

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