Amir Karimi

Experience

• Self-Employed

  Fractional Head of Engineering for early-stage startups

  Jun 2023 - Present

  As a fractional head of engineering and consultant, I work with both startups and Fortune 500 companies. I specialize in aiding start-ups during the following scenarios:

  • They require rapid product development and seek the expertise of a fractional seasoned engineer.
  • They are outsourcing development and need someone to bridge the gap between their team and developers.
  • Their in-house team requires extra senior support or a boost in efficiency for writing scalable code.
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  Amazon

  Software Engineer

  Nov 2022 - Jun 2023

  Amazon Ads Attribution tracks and attributes conversions to specific ads, helping advertisers measure their effectiveness and optimize campaigns for better ROI on the platform. We utilized AI/ML to overcome advertising attribution challenges while maintaining compliance with strict privacy regulations that prohibit user identity capture and storage.

  • Demonstrating exceptional leadership skills by becoming a project lead within two months of joining Amazon.
  • One of the main contributors to re-architecting and improving the data processing pipelines which are processing petabytes of data daily, reducing the number of jobs from around 15 to 1.
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  Acceptto / SecureAuth

  Tech Lead / Principal Software Architecture

  May 2019 - Nov 2022

  Acceptto which was acquired by SecureAuth in Nov 2021, helps secure workforce and customer online identities for the world’s leading brands. Acceptto/SecureAuth’s products and services are developed around the core principle of our mission: Never compromise on security.

  • Promoted to lead the core engineering team consisting of 5 engineers developing the company's core product.
  • Reduced customer onboarding time from days to hours by developing a horizontally scalable, full-duplex communication service for the customer directory agent.
  • Led the redesign and implementation of the next generation of Acceptto's SSO microservice to make it horizontally scalable and highly available.
  • Designed and implemented a policy orchestration engine module that allows customers to control Acceptto's authentication system behavior with or without writing code.
  • Helped the sales team to close two deals that increased the company's annual income by almost 30%, by leading the technical sale and architecture design calls.
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  Disney Streaming Services

  Software Engineer / SRE

  Apr 2017 - Mar 2019

  Disney Streaming Services is a division of The Walt Disney Company dedicated to providing convenient access to Disney-owned content through digital platforms like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. The original company that I joined was Cake Solutions. It was acquired by BAMTech followed by Disney in 2017.

  • Developed scalable microservices capable of handling tens of thousands of requests per second using Scala, Play, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, S3, etc.
  • Contributed directly to the design and implementation of a new subscription system for BAMTech Media, which was later used in Disney+.
  • One of the main contributors to establishing the SRE practices within Disney Streaming Services as the 4th member of the newly shaped SRE team in the company.

• Self-Employed

  Independent Software Engineer / Consultant

  Jan 2006 - Mar 2017

  Worked as a consultant and freelancer with a wide variety of clients and technologies such as C#, .NET, Scala, Play, Akka, Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, HTML/CSS, and more.

  • Designed and developed more than 40 custom-built software projects, from high-performance desktop applications written in C++ to highly scalable web applications written in Scala.
  • Built and managed a network of developers by setting up a transparent system to share the project's financial value with the whole team based on the value each member adds. It was a successful alternative to the traditional structure of corporate.
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  Behsad

  Software Engineer

  Feb 2003 - Dec 2005

  Behsad is a software consulting agency with 20+ years of experience in developing various software solutions.

  • Built a 2D cutting-stock problem-solving desktop GUI application for the first of its kind in Iran. Written in C++ and utilizing the Genetic Algorithm, it was solving general cutting-stock problems with less than 5% waste on average.
  • Mentored and led a team of junior developers.
  • Designed and implemented dozens of applications using C#, .NET, and MSSQL.