Priyanka Menghani

CTO

Seattle, Washington, United States11 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in distributed systems and cloud storage solutions.
Proven track record in optimizing performance and reliability.
Strong background in web development and analytics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Media Analytics expert with strong backend development skills.

Contact

priyankamenghani@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsCachingFault ToleranceDistributed CachingData Storage OptimizationWeb Development

Other Skills

AvailabilityBloom filterCC++CSSColumnar storageHTMLJavaJavaScriptMap ReducePDF JSPHPRAMReliabilityResource usage

About

I am a software development enthusiast, currently working with Microsoft Azure Storage. I am interested in areas such as Distributed systems, algorithms and operating systems.

Experience

11 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

Managing the caching and name resolution teams at Azure Storage.

Software Engineer - Azure Storage Backend

Sep 2017 – Apr 2024 · 6 yrs 7 mos

Currently working on two major Azure Storage components, a distributed cache and a cluster level directory service. I design and develop features that improve latency, resource usage, fault tolerance, availability and reliability of these two platforms.

Distributed systemsCachingFault toleranceResource usageAvailabilityReliability

Software Engineer - Azure Storage Backend

Mar 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

Working with the Azure Storage Team on a distributed caching solution backed by RAM and SSD.

Distributed cachingRAMSSD

Google

Software Engineering Intern

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked with the YouTube Data team on a query engine for YouTube Analytics. My tasks involved:
Analyzing the design and benefits of a proposed optimized columnar storage format for
storing analytics data. I ran experiments related to measuring the storage savings
and eefficiency wins from the new format.
Adding read support for the new optimized format.
Adding Bloom filter support to serve as secondary index into the data and writing Map Reduce jobs for the same.
Developing a web end point to monitor the data registered with a vital component of the
query engine.

Zomato

Web Developer

Aug 2013 – Nov 2013 · 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Worked on the live site and built a number of features for enhancing the user's experience of the web site. I also worked on and bulit admin tools for listings on the web site.

Kde

Student Intern for the Reader application

Aug 2012 – Dec 2012 · 4 mos

My intenship with KDE involved working with the Owncloud project for building an application which served as a gallery for uploaded PDF files on the cloud. A user could view his PDFs in a nice gallery that displayed the PDFs with first page as thumbnail, which could also be read with the help of the integrated PDF JS, built by the Mozilla Team.
From the uploaded files on the cloud, display PDFs with thumbnails
Make the PDFs readable by integrating PDF JS
Allow adding tags to the uploaded PDFs