Sritama Paul
About Sritama Paul
Sritama Paul is a Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times, with extensive experience in software engineering and quality assurance. She has contributed to various projects, including enhancing subscription processes and implementing fraud detection mechanisms.
Work at The New York Times
Currently, Sritama Paul serves as a Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times, a position she has held since 2022. Prior to this role, she worked at the same organization as a Software Engineer in Test from 2016 to 2018 and as a Software Engineer from 2019 to 2022. During her tenure, she re-architected the backend and infrastructure of the Payflow application to improve the subscription purchasing process. She also built the infrastructure and observability from scratch for a scalable and reliable subscription platform.
Education and Expertise
Sritama Paul holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur, where she studied from 1995 to 1999. She furthered her education by obtaining a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Delaware between 2011 and 2013. Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at Austin, expected to be completed in 2024.
Background
Sritama Paul began her career as an Information Technology Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services in India, where she worked from 1999 to 2005. She then transitioned to the University of Delaware as a Graduate Research Assistant from 2011 to 2013. Following her time at the University, she joined Adobe Systems as a Lead Quality Engineer from 2005 to 2009 before moving to The New York Times.
Achievements
Throughout her career, Sritama Paul has made significant contributions to software engineering and quality assurance. She developed an end-to-end automated regression test suite that covers approximately 90% of feature test cases for the Subscriber Account application. Additionally, she contributed to the front-end codebase in JavaScript for web applications and implemented fraud detection mechanisms for the Payflow application payment page.
Professional Involvement
Sritama Paul is actively involved in several groups at The New York Times, including the Technology Mentoring group, Women in Technology group, and Digital Onboarding group. She has also served as a speaker in various communities of practice, discussing topics such as Go, Kubernetes, and AWS.