# Paymahn Moghadasian > Software engineer Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/paymahn ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Goldsky Jan 2024 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States Infra stuff ### Software Engineer @ Reflog Consulting, LLC Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Remote ### Software Engineer II @ Datadog Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote I worked on Release Engineering to make pushing to production more effective and efficient for the whole company. I worked on a small research team evaluating the use and migration towards ARM based workloads at the company. I presented my ARM findings to 1000+ engineers at an all hands and got very favorable feedback. I helped mentor interns and pushed hard to gain more clarity during the OKR process. - Made the workflow engine an API which enabled teams like Data Reliability to improve Kafka maintenance times from 3 days of manual labor to 2 hours with full automation. - Improved reliability of CNAB by resolving recursive tree translation logic - Implemented conformance tests to increase reliability of CNAB - Improved team productivity by 8x by implementing ephemeral developer environments which eliminated all contention on staging - Increased CI reliability and CI comprehensiveness with ephemeral developer environments - Implemented one click production deployments I ran an ARM benchmarking effort on Cassandra clusters (1000+ hosts per cluster) and found ~2x performance/dollar improvements in benchmarking synthetic and staging workloads. As part of this effort I had to: - upgrade core CI pipelines to run with docker buildx - upgrade many core images (like Ubuntu, envoy, etc) to build multiarch (ARM and x86) - upgrade application images (like cassandra) to build and run multiarch - provision multiarch kubernetes cluster to run benchmarking tests - run benchmarking tests against applications to evaluate the cost and benefits of a migration to ARM - work with Senior Staff Engineers across several teams like Compute, Networking and Production Platform ### Senior Software Engineer @ Qwil Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote Senior software engineer on the infrastructure/backend team. I improved our authentication and authorization model to improve security and user isolation as part of a potential 100+ million dollar deal. I built a microservice boilerplate to increase developer productivity within the organization and contributed to our Ledger microservice which ensures we properly account for every dollar we move. Technologies include: Kubernetes, Django, Flask, Docker, Gitlab, continuous integration, Skaffold, Kustomize, Terraform, Google Compute Platform, Postgres, MySql, Microservices and more. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Solvvy Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Remote Senior Software Engineer building out machine learning infrastructure for Solvvy. I was the first Kubernetes user at Solvvy. I built the Intent Engine microservice which generates Natural Language Processing (NLP) models and did realtime text prediction on user queries. Technologies include: Flask, Kubernetes, Docker, Airflow, Google Compute Platform, Microservices, Pulumi, Python, Continuous Integration, Postgres and more. ### Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area I worked on two teams at Facebook: Scuba and Servicerouter. Scuba is a petabyte-scale distributed database system which runs on thousands of Facebook's most expensive servers. Servicerouter is an internal library for service discovery and more. Technologies include: C++, python, distributed databases, continuous delivery, query optimization, compile time optimization, Valgrind, TSAN/ASAN, and more. ### SDE Intern @ Amazon Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greater Seattle Area Worked on the Prime Store and Vendor Services team to create an infrastructure for building new store types and improve vendor onboarding. My infrastructure is responsible for the Prime Instant Video and Prime Music storefronts which receive millions of views every month. Technologies include: Java, AWS, continuous integration, Mockito, distributed systems, git and more. ### Student Researcher @ University of Manitoba Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 I did research regarding user interaction and information visualization. The main focus of my research was creating a density-aware slider which leveraged information of the encoded data to ease use of the tool. A user study showed that my novel tools were statistically significantly faster than current standards and retained the same error rate. ### Student Reseracher @ TU Dresden Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Dresden Area, Germany I started the development of a library for building lenses for multitouch interaction with graphs. The library is designed in such a way that consumers do not have to worry about visuals (unless they don't like what I designed) and only need to specify how the graph needs to interact with the objects "underneath" it. Using this library I developed a BringNeighboursLens which allows users to quickly visualize the neighbours of a node to an arbitrary level. The lens allows users to see different visualizations of the neighbours. I am currently continuing this work to make the library more robust and to develop more lenses. ### Student Researcher @ St. Boniface Hospital Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 My research consisted of exploring the differences in the fatty acid profile of farmed and wild fish. I found that farmed Atlantic salmon provide the most beneficial fatty acid profile. ### Student Lab Assistant @ University of Manitoba Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 I helped facilitate the production of various dairy products such as milk, cheese, ice cream and yogurt. ## Education ### University of Manitoba Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/paymahn --- Source: https://flows.cv/paymahn JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/paymahn/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22