Tigran B.

Tigran B.

Senior Software Engineer

Helsinki, Finland
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About Me

Tigran is a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, and cloud architecture using C#, MySQL, Model-View-Controller (MVC), R&D, and AI/ML operations. He is passionate about building products and technologies with a focus on software optimization and scalability, driving robust, scalable microservices, data processing applications, and web services, and working on groundbreaking features with a comprehensive suite of tools and insights for the best end-user experience on projects. As the founder of TreeScale, Tigran has been leading the development and delivery of an AI/ML custom model training infrastructure for businesses since 2015 on a mission to enable companies to create and use private AI models without the need for ML teams or expensive hardware. He enjoys implementing engineering best practices and working in productive processes with fully Agile and quick release cycles.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Software Engineer
2020 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participating in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensuring that features are being delivered efficiently and on time.

Smartly
Smartly
Senior Software Engineer
2020 - 2022 (2 years)
Helsinki, Finland
  • Developed Facebook Ads API integrations and internal developer tooling, boosting internal developer experience and product time to market.

  • Collaborated on creating an application that automates every step of social advertising to unlock greater performance and creativity.

  • Troubleshot, debugged, and upgraded existing systems.

Hexact
Hexact
Co-founder | CTO
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Remote
  • Managed technological resources in delivering a scalable headless chrome environment, handling 2K website scans per second on Google Cloud Platform.

  • Led and managed a team of 4 engineers to build the main product features, ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.

  • Identified and fixed causes of technical issues and minimized the scope and frequency of product issues, gathering actionable feedback on products from clients.

Gazar.am
Gazar.am
Founder | CEO
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Yerevan, Armenia
  • Offered hands-on technical leadership with a focus on app development, performance tuning, and architecture development for an eCommmerce platform with 3 clicks to placing a final order.

  • Owned and maintained the development, QA, and DevOps stacks and workflows of a local consumer market's delivery process.

  • Facilitated a culture of productivity, visibility, and continuous improvement on projects within Gazar.am.

IUNU Inc
IUNU Inc
Lead Software Engineer
2016 - 2018 (2 years)
Remote
  • Led and contributed to the implementation of the architecture for Green House automation systems, providing support for hardware programming using C++.

  • Drove functional requirements gathering on the solution, defining a fully autonomous development process for the solution on a remote device using Node.js.

  • Actively debugged codebase and ensured solid code delivery and execution of solutions by team members.

TreeScale
TreeScale
Founder | Open Source Maintainer
2015 - 2023 (8 years)
Helsinki, Finland
  • Created and maintained a base TreeScale open-source technology and provided technical consultancy/support on projects.

  • Owned and drove the development of a scalable PubSub system that powers up many companies on the main networking infrastructure.

  • Provided technical guidance and support for TreeScale's open-source technology, reviewing code, testing, and documenting key software components.

IFC Markets
IFC Markets
PHP/.NET Developer
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Remote
  • Implemented high-quality and innovative software solutions for the development of new features on IFC Markets' websites.

  • Authored and executed several useful desktop-based and console apps with C# or C++.

  • Followed coding best practices and standards, wrote technical documentation, and assisted with builds and releases.

Portfolio

Senior Software Developer - Forex Data Trader at IFC Markets
Senior Software Developer - Forex Data Trader at IFC Markets

Designed and developed software architecture to support Forex market events at less than a second speed over 1,000+ trading instruments (FIX protocol). Used distributed messaging and multiregional caching to get Forex transactional events across multiple regions in less than a second. Scaled the database infrastructure on the solution into multiple data stages like Hot, Cold, and Cached storages and developed an internal messaging protocol to support low-latency communication. The project was launched and delivered to new markets by adding new regional servers.

Founder | Maintainer - TreeScale
Founder | Maintainer - TreeScale

TreeScale is an open-source solution for users to build real-time PubSub apps with highly scalable architecture using Math Tree/Graph-based scalability instead of standard horizontal scalability. Built the project from scratch, cutting down network usage/heavy loads by 40% in production and implemented 3 successful use cases for clients. The solution was tested and used in companies like PicsArt, AdValidation, and CodinGame, helping them to cut down on networking costs by more than 40%.

Co-founder | Software Engineer - Hexometer.com
Co-founder | Software Engineer - Hexometer.com

Hexometer monitors websites 24/7 to catch availability, performance, user experience, SEO, health, and security problems before they affect customers. Co-founded the company, also doing most of the software development, then acted as CTO and built an automated crawler system for websites to monitor SEO metrics. Technologies used: TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes.

Project Owner | Lead Developer - Live Image Processing Back End
Project Owner | Lead Developer - Live Image Processing Back End

PicsArt is a real-time image effect processing solution with AI processing, manipulation, and animation of images. Engineered the solution to process image algorithms on the server-side in a safe and secured environment. PicsArt was successfully launched within 7 months and processes more than 50K images/second.

Founder - Gazar.am
Founder - Gazar.am

Built and sold a food delivery company in Yerevan, Armenia, managing software and non-software operations with 20+ employees. Technologies used: React, MongoDB, Node.js, GraphQL, Heroku.

Education

Silicon Valley Acceleration Program
Silicon Valley Acceleration Program
Founder Institute
2023 - 2023
Master's Degree, Engineering Data
Master's Degree, Engineering Data
University of Engineering at Tartu - Estonia
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
BSc Informatics and Applied Mathematics
BSc Informatics and Applied Mathematics
Yerevan State University - Armenia
2006 - 2010 (4 years)