Resume

16th Apr 2018
6 min read

Salar Rahmanian

My Location

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Profile

I have been developing software since the age of eleven.

I have extensive experience:

Programming in: Java, Scala, Python and Swift
Databases: Oracle, Postgresql, MySQL, IBM DB2
Frameworks: Spring and Hibernate (Java), Akka / Akka-http (Scala), Typelevel (Scala), FastAPI (Python), Langchain(Python), Django (Python), Flask (Python)
OS: NixOS, Linux, Unix (Solaris, Aix)
Other: Apache Spark (Databricks), Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Nifi, Terraform, Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Document AI, Dialogflow, BigQuery)

Domain Experience

Healthcare
Building data pipelines
Building High Volume Billing platforms (In particular interconnect billing for cell phone providers)
Extensive domain knowledge of the job posting and matching and shift scheduling

Experience

Staff Software Engineer, Collective Health: 2020-present

So far my work has involved:

Building AI features using:
- OpenAI
- Langchain
- Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Document AI, Dialogflow, Vertex AI Search, Gemini)
- Databricks Model Serving and experimentation using MLflow
- Created internal framework and tools to be used by other engineers to build AI features
Building Data pipelines using Databricks, Apache Spark, Airflow and Python
Building Microservices and REST API’s using Java, Spring, Dropwizard
Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, Terraform
Design and Architecture of new features

Staff Software Engineer, Mya Systems: 2018-2020

Worked on Building an AI recruiter assistant.

My accomplishments at Mya:

Scaled our platforms conversations with our AI assistant to be asynchronous and queue/streaming driven
Integration of Mya’s platform with several external ATS’s most notably this included Workday, Bullhorn, Paychex/MyStaffing Pro and Textkernel.
Building new microservices and adding features to Mya existing platform using Python, Django, Flask, Celery, Redis (Including Redis Streams) and Postgresql. This included building REST Services.

Senior Principal Engineer, Snagajob: 2016-2018

I built a new data ingestion pipeline to ingest high volume of job postings received from multiple sources and partners. I built this using Scala, akka, akka-http, Play Framework, Kafka and Apache Nifi. I also setup a Kubernetes cluster running on AWS which was used for this new ingestion pipeline. I was responsible for introducing all these wonderful technologies to Snagajob.

Other projects I was involved in at Snagajob involved me creating micro services and REST api’s using Python, Flask, Celery.

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Trackmaven: 2015-2016

Enhanced Trackmaven’s competitive intelligence platform by creating new services using Python, Flask, Django, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL. Created a new UI Dashboard used by customers to track marketing campaign performance versus their competitor using Angular.

Senior Software Engineer, Accenture Federal Services: 2014-2015

I worked on the modernization of the Dept of Veteran Affairs eHmp health care system. I was the technical lead of a team of 10 responsible for the development of the platforms sync system. This was a distributed system used to sync patient records across all hospitals. The main stack I used for development was Java, Spring, Dropwizard and Node.js.

Chief Technology Officer, Healthy Choices At Work: 2012-2014

I was a hands on CTO and Engineer at this startup. I architected and developed a custom CRM system for the business. This provided a full end to end solution which allowed customers to sign up for the service and manage their own accounts. On the business side it provided the means to run the business by providing the delivery scheduling of the orders and the billing and invoicing management of customers.

The stack used for this was Python, Django, Postgresql and Elasticsearch. For payments our system integrated with Stripe APIs.

Principal Software Engineer, Incito Networks LLC: 2009-2013

Worked as a freelance software developer developing custom apps for local small businesses and entrepreneurs. Worked on several software development projects which included me using:

Java, Spring
Python, Django
I developed two IOS apps for clients using Objective C

Principal Software Engineer, Powermax Computing Ltd: 1998-2009

If you have worked in the UK as an experienced software developer, you realize that the best jobs from all angles are contract / consultant positions. So during this period whilst living in London UK i worked for many well known companies on the biggest projects as a Principal Software Engineer. In the early years my work solely involved coding using C Programming on a Unix Platform (such as Solaris and AIX) with an Oracle Database backend (included Pro*C and PL/SQL).

In the more later years my coding was mostly done using Java, Spring, Hibernate and Oracle again as the database backend.

The companies I worked for included: O2, IBM, Oracle, National Car Rental.

Education

King’s College, University of London — BEng(Hons) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Graduated in 1992
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on Coursera — Functional Programming Principles in Scala

Projects

I contribute to various Scala open source projects. Most notabiliy to Scala ZIO library and group of projects. My main focus and contribution is working on and leading the ZIO-Actors library. A high performance, purely-functional library for building and supervising typed actors backed by ZIO. A Fresh approach to implementing the actor model.

I am also working on and leading ZIO-Zmx a new project that is a work in progress providing monitoring and metrics of ZIO fibers.

You can find more of my projects on my GitHub and my personal git forge.

Other Accomplishments

I have a passion to learn and network with like minded people with similar interests in technology. Hence I am very active in the conference, meetup and open source communities: