ALIREZA (ALI) BAKTASHIAN

**** ****** *** **, ******, WA 98422 408-***-**** adtb8k@r.postjobfree.com

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.

Contact this candidate