Software Engineer passionate about solving operational problems.

Experience

**ATeams Inc.** — Senior Platform Enginer, July 2022 - Present

• Managed DevOps requirements for various teams using CDK Terraform on AWS, Kubernetes with Helm charts on EKS, CircleCI for CI / CD, Datadog for monitoring and alerting.
• Implemented a one-click Ephemeral Environment deployment tool with isolated databases for quicker and safer iteration.
• Streamlined various DevOps practices, providing teams with self-service tools to lint, test, build, cache, deploy and monitor Dockerized services.
• Parallelized CI tests, reducing deploy times by more than 50%.
• Configured Wireguard VPN inside the Kubernetes cluster.
• Developed an internal blockchain-style “ATeam Build Token” currency using AWS SQS and QLDB, boosting system auditability, isolation, and immutability.
• Introduced the use of GraphQL within our microservice architecture.
• Led the SOC2 compliance process. Assisted in onboarding enterprise clients, addressing policy documentation, compliance and security requirements.
• Handled bug bounty disclosures - identifying, prioritizing and resolving security issues. Implemented security processes like quarterly infrastructure scanning, helping the company maintain a strong cybersecurity stance.

HearMe — CTO, Sept 2019 - Mar 2022

• Led a team of two engineers, a product manager, and a designer.
• Actively communicated with the CEO and COO to ensure a successful fundraising round.
• Worked on the web and mobile apps and the chat platform using ReactJS, React Native, NodeJS with GraphQL, Ejabberd.
• Handled the CI / CD of the backend service and iOS / Android mobile apps.
• Migrated the database from MongoDB to Postgresql, and the chatting platform from Twilio to Ejabberd.

Global Health Strategies — Product Lead, May 2021 - Jan 2022

Assembled a team of 3 engineers and 1 designer. Guided the end-to-end design, development, architecture, and deployment of Virt application for the United Nations General Assembly event, leveraging technologies such as NextJS for frontend and NestJS and GraphQL for backend services.

American University of Armenia — TA for CS 101, Sept 2021 - Sept 2021

Wavve — Senior Software Engineer, Co-Founder, April 2019 - September 2020

Coordinated tasks between programming and business teams. Actively contributed to application development, utilizing React Native, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL technologies.

Sololearn — Frontend Developer, Oct 2017 - Dec 2017 / June 2018 - June 2019

Simply Technologies — Software Development Intern, May 2017 - July 2017

ApolloBytes — Software Development Intern, Mar 2017 - May 2017

Email me at [email protected]. Find me on Github and LinkedIn.

Education

American University of Armenia — BSc in CS (3.84 GPA), Sept 2016 - June 2020

Utah State University — Exchange Program, Jan 2018 - May 2018

Tools

Platform: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, Github Actions, Linux.

Backend: NodeJS, Go, REST and Graphql, Ejabberd.

Databases: Postgresql, MySql, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite.

Frontend: ReactJS, React Native, Svelte.

Articles

Handling global state in React without Providers and boilerplate - Medium

Building a React state management library with built-in effects - Medium

Projects

**Centrifugal -** TypeScript **

Implemented a decentralized feed app and an end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol using GunJS as the database.

**Image Manipulation Engine - Go**

Implemented a concurrent layered image manipulation engine, ~8 times faster than the industry-standard NodeJS engine.

Ethereum Projects - Solidity

Successfully implemented, tested, deployed, managed, and enhanced over 10 Ethereum contracts for various clients.

Languages

English, Armenian, Russian - Fluent

German - Duolingo Section 2