# Siavash Zamani > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/siavashzamani ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer - Core Engineering @ Polycam Jan 2025 – Present ### Software Engineer - Growth @ Polycam Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 ### Senior Software Engineer - Growth Team @ LTSE Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote ▪Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for engineering outcomes for entire Growth Team ▪Consistently ran measured experiments using founder, Eric Reis's, Lean Startup methodology ▪Revamped end to end onboarding flow to reduce dropoff by up to 50% at points in our funnel ▪Built free UI calculators and tools as channels of growth for main revenue generating product ▪Implemented analytic libraries, tagged key points in product to measure engagement with product ▪Created SQL queries on internal and third party datasets to find new growth opportunities ▪Redesigned in app upgrade experience, enabling +300% out performance in upgrades ▪Created scripts to ensure CRM up-to-date with product, resolved 400+ company CRM discrepancies ▪Managed stripe integration, used webhook events to manage subscriptions to multiple products ### Engineering Chapter Lead @ Vanguard Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ▪ Manage team of software engineers working on developing tools to help clients plan for their financial futures ▪ Work as a senior software engineer on the team, creating scalable front-end applications ▪Make technical decisions for the team as we look to get a new product to market ### Software Engineer @ Vanguard Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ▪ Developed Angular web application used by over 250,000 clients of advisor management services ▪ Decoupled application code from legacy APIs through GraphQL & Apollo to help modernize data structures ▪ Built web application on an AWS platform, including graphical representation of financial data ### Innovation Developer @ Vanguard Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Philadelphia Rotation 3: Working in small teams and use Human Centered Design to uncover problems, iterate, and build solutions. Interview potential users, identify personas, and uncover design targets. Frontend: React Serverside: node, GraphQL Database: PostgresQL Testing: Jest, Chai ### Technology Leadership Program: Application Development @ Vanguard Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 Leadership development program composed of three, eight month rotations in different roles in IT. Outside of technical rotations I was responsible for various leadership roles. A few I would like to highlight are: ✢ Python Training for Investment Analysts - Developed curriculum & taught python courses to analysts who did not have formal coding training before. ✢ UI Bootcamp - Developed a unified, multi-day lab for new developers to teach them how UI development is done at Vanguard. ✢ Intern Project Team - Co-lead a team of interns through a MEAN Stack project that was presented at the culmination of their internship. ✢ Hackathon Planning - Planned and participated in multiple company-wide Hackathons. ✢ TLP Engagement Team -Increased engagement & satisfaction among the program participants. ### Portfolio Review Department Data Engineer @ Vanguard Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Rotation 2: Hybrid role between our Product Managers & the Big Data team that supports them. Helped migrate Tableau servers to AWS and made data visualizations for analysts specifically around competitor intelligence. Learned the importance of clean & consistent data. -Automated data checking process between two sources a reconciled a $20B difference in industry cash flow -Wrote Python scripts to clean data from REST endpoints to allow for visulalization -Helped migrate our Hadoop data lake to an AWS -Made competitor revenue visualizations in Tableau -Worked directly with analysts and developed my investment acumen around Vanguard's products. ### Institutional Developer @ Vanguard Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Malvern, PA Rotation 1: Full stack development for a process to automate 401k non-discrimination, compliance testing. Involved with the business from requirements to development to testing. Worked directly with our business partners to develop our product. Had the opportunity to onboard new developers and testers. Front-end: AngularJS Mid-tier: Java & SpringBatch Database: Oracle SQL Testing: Cucumber, Jasmine, Karma, J-unit, Selenium ### Schreyer Honors College Orientation Director @ Penn State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ▪ Spearhead revamping of Orientation process ▪ Served as point of contact between new honors students and honors administration ▪ Planned, directed, and emceed orientation event in new, smaller venue ### Schreyer Honors College Mentor and Orienteer @ Penn State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ▪ Guide new honor students to help them succeed and take advantage of all their opportunities ▪ Worked with a team to plan and run the orientation for the 300 newly admitted honors students ▪ Collaborated with students, faculty, staff, hotel staff, presenters, and photographers to organize the event ### Private Instructor in Mathematics and Physics @ PSU Know How Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ### Energy Efficient Electronics Intern @ UC Berkeley Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | University of California at Berkeley ▪ Designed and tested cavity-backed slot antennae to be coupled into optical interconnects ▪ Developed several models in different simulation software ▪ Analyzed tens of thousands of data points using Python and Microsoft Excel ▪ Prepared and presented a 15 minute presentation of my work for Berkeley faculty ▪ Created a poster summarizing my work and presented it to Berkeley faculty ### Race Relations Facilitator and Teaching Assistant @ Penn State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ▪ Trained to help people with different views discuss their beliefs in a neutral environment ▪ Facilitated three weekly dialogues to help students talk about their experiences with race ▪ Worked closely with a co-facilitator to ensure students felt safe to talk a ### Nanomaterial Research Assistant @ Penn State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ▪ Exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers and measured their photoluminescence ▪ Collaborated with a team graduate students, postdocs, and faculty ### Physics Mechanics Learning Assistant @ Penn State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ▪ Facilitated students learning calculus-based physics/mechanics ▪ Trained in proven non-traditional teaching methods to help students grasp difficult topics ▪ Worked in a group to create and present a poster on a pedagogical study ### XMM-Newton Satellite Project Assistant @ Penn State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ▪ Exported large files from the XMM-Newton satellite to create images of existing supernovae ▪ Extensively used Microsoft Excel and terminal command prompt to characterize supernovae ## Education ### Masters of Science in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Physics Penn State University ### High School Diploma Conestoga HIgh School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/siavash-zamani --- Source: https://flows.cv/siavashzamani JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/siavashzamani/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01