Priyanka Thakur

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VP of Engineering at Delta Security · Raft, C++

Delta Security
Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
Symbiosis International University
English, Hindi
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Delta Security, focused on distributed databases. Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Mphasis and JPMorgan Chase. I host a monthly meetup on distributed databases.

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Skills
RaftconsensusC++performance engineeringRocksDBRust
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Building out storage at Delta Security: data engineers wanted in Gurugram

Role
Data engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
₹50-55 LPA
Team
Storage, 9 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Clear written communication
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp ₹42-55 LPA. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Gurugram, India · remote OKc++rustrocksdb
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Oct 2023 - Present
    Delta Security · 3 yr · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 4.
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 875ms to 68ms.
    • Built the experimentation framework 15 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Software Engineer
    Oct 2021 - Oct 2023
    Mphasis · 2 yr · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 16 a week to 1.
    • Shipped 26 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 40 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
    Qualcomm · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 6.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Dec 2012 - Mar 2015
    ITC · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 591ms to 178ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 23% in two quarters.

Projects

Distributed databases benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing C++ and Rust on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Symbiosis International University
    BBA, Mathematics
    2005 - 2009

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