# Kamran Kotobi

> Senior Software Engineer at Netflix

Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kamran

I'm a Full Stack Engineer who enjoys new challenges and learning new technologies, I love finding elegant and simple solutions to difficult problems.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2021 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Medallia
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States

### Senior Full Stack JavaScript Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas Area
* Tech lead over the monitoring team in charge of PayPal's internal apps

* Led multiple projects & initiatives across different cross-functional teams & mentored jr developers.

* Worked as a full stack developer on PayPal's public help pages which serve 100+ Million unique visitors per year. 

* Speaker at PayPal's worldwide developer conference on 3rd party JavaScript.

* Technologies used: Node.js 10.x, React 15.x, Redux , HTML 5, CSS 3, Webpack 4.x.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Bazaarvoice
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area
* Bazaarvoice is a SaaS company that connects brands and retailers to their shoppers via reviews.

* I focused on creating highly performant, loosely-coupled UI front end code and components for our SaaS platform which serves over one billion requests per month. 

* Elon Musk 2018 award ♛ : “Innovation award”. (For work done in the Small Web Applications Team)

▪ Technologies used: Node.js 8.9, React 14.x, Redux , Preact 8.x , Jest 20.x , Less, HTML 5, CSS 3, Webpack 2.x, AWS management console.

### Senior Full Stack JavaScript Engineer @ Vivint Solar
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Salt Lake City Area
* Vivint.solar is the 2nd largest provider of solar energy  in the US.

* I worked on a variety of projects, all of them hosted in the AWS and all written as micro services, some of my projects included: 

* Credit service: Backend RESTful Node.js API which helps the company run credit for their customers, this micro-service receives an average 3k request per minute. It has integrations with 2 of the mayor credit report bureaus.

* HR-On boarding: Full-stack app used to on-board new hires, it has integrations with workday and I9 verifiers. 

▪ Technologies used: Node.js 6.9, Express 4, React.js, Redux, Mocha, Chai, DynamoDB, AWS Cloud Front, AWS S3, HTML 5, CSS3, Javascript ES6, Webpack, Gulp, Git.

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Lendio
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Greater Salt Lake City Area
* Lendio is a Fintech company that matches small business owners with lenders.

* Lead developer for 'Pipeline' (former SaaS product) which is a large Single Page Application, it keeps track of lead flow / life-cycle for the internal sales reps. 

* Managed a small team of developers as well as mentored Jr developers.

* Helped set deadlines and scope for  multiple concurrent projects (working closely with the product team from inception to completion). 

* Presidents club 2015 award ♛ : “UTILITARIAN OF THE YEAR”. (For work on the pipeline tool)

▪  Technologies used: PHP 5.6, Laravel 5.x, MySQL 5.6, JavaScript, AngularJS 1.4, HTML 5, CSS 3, Git.

### Software Engineer @ Zagg, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater Salt Lake City Area
* ZAGG.com is an e-commerce site that averages more than 1,000,000 unique visitors per month.

* Worked as a full-stack web developer, some of my projects included: most of the zagg.com's product pages, the site's mini-cart, integrations to 3rd party API's, a new method of payment for the checkout process. 

* Wrote the integration for 3rd party API's such as: Bazaarvoice, Google Trusted Stores, Silverpop.

▪  Technologies used: PHP 5.4, CodeIgniter 2.1, MySQL 5.3, jQuery, 1.7, HTML 5, CSS 3, Git.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
Universidad Rafael Urdaneta
Jan 2003 – Jan 2009

### Computer Science
St. Petersburg College
Jan 2001 – Jan 2003


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kamran-kotobi-741b8a78
- GitHub: https://github.com/kkotobi

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Last updated: 2026-03-22