Priya spent four years at Stripe on the payments reliability team, where she learned that any system that touches a person's money or their memories had better be right the first time. At Portraits she leads the engineering team building the generation, review, and production-handoff pipeline — the connective tissue that turns a few sentences from a customer into a framed piece on a wall. She's particularly focused on the hard problems most AI-image products handwave: consistent composition across sizes, faithful likeness without creepiness, and the long tail of prompts that break the default model. Priya has strong opinions about PostgreSQL, a complicated relationship with TypeScript, and a weekend habit of 35mm film photography that her cloud storage bill has started to notice.
Knows about
- Generative ML
- Systems reliability
- Pipeline architecture
- Latent diffusion
- TypeScript