Payal Chheda
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPayal Chheda is a senior back-end software engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems across security, real-time event processing, and financial workflow domains. Currently at Microsoft after impactful roles at Lyft and Expedia Group, she built a near-real-time SIEM ingest pipeline handling ~6,000 events/sec, led org-wide compliance and cost-optimization efforts that saved $400k+ annually, and shipped monitoring platforms for a $33B payments system. She combines hands-on engineering with mentoring and on-call reliability improvements, frequently representing teams in audits and knowledge-sharing forums. Comfortable with cloud-native stacks and open source tooling, she has driven automation for vulnerability management and system hardening. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, Payal keeps a steep learning curve and seeks pragmatic solutions that balance scale, security, and operational excellence. An often-unspoken strength is her blend of technical delivery and cross-functional influence—shipping code while shaping roadmaps and processes.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Github Skills (11)
neo4j10
graph-database9
python9
logstash5
fluentd4
elasticsearch4
kafka3
filebeat3
heartbeat2
packetbeat1
metricbeat1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
cartography-cncf/cartography
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Cartography is a Python tool that pulls infrastructure assets and their relationships into a Neo4j graph database.
Contributions:9 reviews, 17 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
graph-databaseneo4jpython
fluent/fluent-plugin-kafka
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Kafka input and output plugin for Fluentd
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 16 days
fluentdkafkafluentd-plugin
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