# Nemsiss Shahbazian

> Software Engineer @ Picogrid | CS @ USC Alumna

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nemsiss

I’m a backend-leaning Software Engineer on Picogrid’s core platform team, building reliable, real-time services and APIs that connect devices, data, and people. I like taking ambiguous requirements and turning them into clean interfaces, resilient systems, and tests that make shipping boring (in the best way).
I’m excited by problems at the edge of distributed systems, messaging, and data; especially where reliability and performance really matter. Always happy to connect with folks building real-time platforms.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Picogrid
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Backend (core platform team)
- Integrated a YOLOv8-based smoke and fire detection ML model with 95.7% precision, satisfying a major customer
requirement and securing their contract renewal.
- Co-led the redesign of legacy backend services from a misfit NoSQL/TypeScript/Python on AWS Lambda stack to
a Go/PostgreSQL/Kubernetes architecture, correcting schema flaws with a relational model, improving system
flexibility, enabling cloud-agnostic deployments, and reducing REST API latency by 42%.
- Designed a hybrid migration strategy that preserved legacy REST endpoints while rerouting them via gRPC to new
Go services, enabling partial adoption during the transition and overcoming challenges in schema mismatches, user
permission mappings, and unknown edge cases.
- Designed and built a location telemetry system with TimescaleDB, introducing efficient spatial queries by proximity
and metrics. This unlocked extensibility for features like drone integration and threat localization, ultimately
contributing to securing an $8M DoD customer contract.
- Architected an event streaming system (built on NATS) to aggregate and filter organizational events by user
interests, enabling timely and resilient notifications in disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DIL) environments.
- Architected a customizable notification system with SMS (AWS SNS) and email (Go SMTP) delivery, empowering
users to control frequency and scheduling preferences.
- Designed and delivered a self-service command and control (C2) system using MQTT and client-defined schemas,
enabling hardware and software clients to register their own command structures. This removed the server as the
single source of truth and supported resilient operations in disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DIL) environments.

### Data/Machine Learning Engineer @ First Resonance
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ CT Software Solutions
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Helped setup project structure for frontend.
- Followed designs provided by the design team using Figma to create web components using React/Next.js.
- Helped optimize web layout for mobile responsiveness using Tailwind CSS for various projects.
- Helped setup deployment pipelines using AWS, Heroku, and Netlify.
- Helped conduct research for best technologies suited per project basis.
- Proactively participated in stand-ups, retrospectives and plannings with the team.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Southern California
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Mathematics and Computer Science
Glendale Community College
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-20