Open to senior individual contributor and engineering leadership opportunities.

Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Leader

Building intelligent products that work in the real world.

I build AI-powered products and scalable web platforms. Over 12 years, I have worked as a senior engineer, technical lead, and engineering manager—shipping products used by millions and leading multidisciplinary teams from architecture through production.

12+

Years building software

10

Engineers led

Millions

Users reached

40%

Backend response-time improvement

Evidence of engineering across product, systems, and teams.

A selection of work that shows the scope of problems I take ownership of—from production AI experiences to cloud architecture and multidisciplinary delivery.

AI Product Engineering

01

Generative AI tools for a global creative platform

Picsart

Designing and shipping generative AI capabilities inside photo and video editing workflows used by millions of people.

  • Integrated and orchestrated AI/ML models inside production editing experiences.
  • Balanced product experience, platform performance, and operational scalability.
  • Partnered with product, design, and research on a weekly release cycle.
ReactNode.jsNestJSKotlin

Architecture & Leadership

02

Cloud platform delivered by a multidisciplinary team

PIMPIT

Defined the application architecture and led frontend, backend, and Unreal Engine delivery across a team of ten engineers.

  • Designed an Azure-based architecture for scalability, availability, and security.
  • Established delivery planning, code review, monitoring, and operational practices.
  • Connected web, backend, identity, storage, and real-time 3D disciplines.
AzureNext.jsASP.NETUnreal Engine
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Technical Leadership

03

High-traffic product and platform modernization

TIRSoft

Led multiple product teams while designing web, mobile, and backend systems for SaaS products.

  • Improved Python backend response times by 40%.
  • Designed Flask microservices and REST APIs with SQLAlchemy.
  • Led architecture, planning, mentoring, CI/CD, and production delivery.
PythonFlaskReactNestJS

How I work

Practical engineering principles.

The standards I use when making architecture decisions, shipping products, and helping teams deliver.

01

Start with the product outcome

Architecture is useful when it reduces risk, shortens feedback loops, or creates a measurably better user experience.

02

Design for production

Reliability, observability, security, cost, and operability belong in the first design—not after launch.

03

Keep teams unblocked

Clear decisions, useful reviews, and shared context let engineers move quickly without lowering the quality bar.

04

Prefer incremental delivery

Small production changes reveal real constraints earlier and make complex systems safer to evolve.

Broad enough to connect the system.

My strongest contribution is connecting product goals, application architecture, cloud operations, and team execution.

Product & Leadership

LeadershipEngineering ManagementProject ManagementTeam MentorshipAgile Methodologies

Cloud & DevOps

DevOpsCloud InfrastructureCI/CD PipelinesAzureAWSDockerKubernetesCloud Architecture

Full-stack Engineering

LinuxNestJsReactVue.jsAngularSQLBash Scripting

A career built through increasing ownership.

Senior Software Engineer

Picsart - Yerevan

Designed and implemented Generative AI tools and features, enhancing the creative capabilities of Picsart’s photo and video editor used by millions of users worldwide.

February 2024 – Present

Engineering Manager

PIMPIT - Dubai

Designed and implemented the application's architecture, leveraging Azure services for scalability, high availability, and security.

March 2023 to December 2024

Senior Software Engineer

HelpSystems LLC - United States (Remote)

Developed B2B products in the Cybersecurity and Automation industry, focusing on creating core functionality and common components of varying complexity.

June 2022 to November 2023

Unreal Engine Developer

Garage B14 - Armenia, SC

Developed and enhanced simulation systems within Unreal Engine, ensuring high performance and realistic functionality.

January 2022 to August 2022

Tech Lead

TIRSoft - Yerevan

Tech lead of multiple products (designing architecture, choosing technologies stack, planning etc).

March 2021 to July 2022

Team Lead

TIRSoft - Yerevan

Frontend team lead.

March 2020 to March 2021

Backend Developer

TIRSoft - Armenia, Yerevan

Developed websites using Node.js, React.js, PHP.

April 2018 to December 2019

Frontend Developer

Kolba Lab - Yerevan

Developed a platform for school students to store their environmental issues as their school quarter project. The platform was designed to be user-friendly and accessible to students of all ages, with the aim of encouraging them to take an active role in protecting the environment.

2016 to 2018

Web Developer

Huge IT - Yerevan

Worked as a part-time developer mostly on web projects, and at the same time studied for my bachelor's degree.

2014 to 2016

Let's build something useful

Looking for an engineer who can connect product, architecture, and execution?

I'm interested in senior engineering and technical leadership opportunities where strong product thinking and production ownership matter.

Armenia, Yerevan