Automation Engineer Aws Architect

ALIREZA (ALI) BAKTASHIAN

**** ****** *** **, ******, WA 98422 408-***-**** ***@*****.***

Professional Summary

Successful leadership and hands on experience, skills and passion in diverse technical and business management roles. Excellence in professional trust building, problem solving and analytical skills as either a team leader, team player or individual technical contributor. Skills

• Customer centric team leadership of architecture, design and plan execution for multiple

technology and business products and business

units simultaneously

• High output hands-on technical ownership at

multiple levels of organization working with cross functional stakeholders while managing limited

budget and resources

• Hiring the best and setting high standards and

delivering results through trust building,

excellent communication, interpersonal and

professional relationship building at several

organizational levels

• Passion and curiosity for constantly learning

and sharpening skills and motivating the

teams to do the same as business and

technology evolves

• Inventiveness in automation and building

efficient methods as well as learning and

adopting best known methods from others

• Understanding complexities and ambiguities

while delivering the high value of efficiency by

applicable simplification

• Courage and savvy to disagree and commit as

appropriate to deliver outstanding results

according to organizational principles

Work History

CTO Entrepreneur Startup Founder Feb 2016 - Current NetProReferral, Inc Tacoma, WA

• As technical leader, I have been leading teams of engineers, QA, A/B testing, marketing, advertising and other contributors to develop a professional networking site using agile development and CI/CD Pipelines.

• Leading as an AWS Architect to build the business on advanced Serverless technology with resources such as AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, OpenSearch and API Gateway to ensure optimum performance.

• Driving several AWS Infrastructure as Code resources (Cloudformation, SAM and CDK) to improve TTM, efficiency and costs while upgrading the team’s skills and facilitating secure CI/CD developments.

• Effectively managed remote technical and content development teams overseas achieving cost effective results and successful outcomes.

• Completed the development and demonstrated initial traction in older PHP/MySQL technology in 2018. CEO Entrepreneur Startup Founder Apr 2004 - 2017

VestInAm, Inc Tacoma, WA

• Built five startups in Silicon Valley, integrated and led all aspects of cross-functional teams of up to several hundred employees and achieved multimillion-dollar sales.

• Invented and developed software and web applications for business operations, marketing and algorithmic trading using Python Object Oriented programming and Perl.

• Led digital cross-functional teams overseas to market company services.

• Developed effective websites using full-stack Python, Django, PHP and MySQL for businesses.

• Sold three successful multimillion-dollar businesses. Senior Staff Design Automation Engineer Sep 1999 - Jun 2005 Intel Corporation Santa Clara, CA

• Hired, mentored and managed design/DA engineers setting high standards and delivering high performance and great results.

• Using OOP in C++, Java, Perl and Shell programming, led teams in developing various software tools to validate circuit and layout design of advanced Processors while diving deep hands on as needed.

• Developed several internal web applications to share and communicate design automation and validation tools, methodologies and data.

Staff Application Engineer May 1997 - Sep 1999

Atmel Corporation San Jose, CA

• Developed several software tools and programs to simulate product interface with customer systems

(IBIS models and VHDL models).

• Automated customer test-result report generation.

• Interfaced with customers and external development teams to develop specifications for tools and to resolve customer issues.

• Mentored, supervised and trained junior engineers and technicians. Education

BSEE: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Washington State University Pullman, WA

AWS Certified Solution Architect- Associate

Additional Information

• AWARDs: Tens of recognition and achievement awards from employers, business partners and customers. Currently working on MCS at UIUC. References: on request.

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