# Armen Hamstra

> Staff Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: Saratoga, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/armenhamstra

Software Engineer with highly varied experience. Experienced at fault-tolerant software, hardware, and multi-colo architectures. Substantial Java experience, including client/server and stand-alone client design. Background in security, including encryption and certificates.

Specialties: Software design and architecture, Java, C/C++, XML, CIM, fault-tolerance, Spring, JavaScript, HTML, JSP, SOAP, multi-colo

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2011 – Jan 2021
Developing projects to improve engagement on the LinkedIn website and improve LinkedIn's infrastructure.

* Led a complete modernization of how LinkedIn produces tracking events.
* Led 500+ engineers, QA, ops, product to opening LinkedIn's third production data center
* Team lead for one of three product teams moving LinkedIn multi-colo and opening Linkedin's second data center
* Transitioned a major legacy monolithic architecture to SOA
* One of three architects for LinkedIn's EVG data query engine
* Technical lead who helped start LinkedIn's products for college students team
* Other projects include One-Click Endorsements, Full Site SSL, Connection Suggester and others

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 2002 – Jan 2011
Design and implementation of software for maintenance of fault-tolerant hardware and software.

### Software Designer @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 1999 – Jan 2002
Software design and implementation for fault-tolerant online transaction processing.

### Software Designer @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999
Software design and implementation for fault-tolerant hardware and software.


## Education
### B.S. in Information and Computer Science
UC Irvine


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arnoha

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Last updated: 2026-04-12