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Privasui
🗓️ Mar 2025 – Present · 4 mos
● Designed and implemented core smart contracts in Move for a fully on-chain encrypted messenger
● Developed piNS (username-as-NFT) and piX (on-chain identity graph)
● Engineered secure message streaming with dynamic fields and shared/owned objects
● Built immutable, encrypted messaging for verifiable privacy
● Created deployment/test automation tooling for Sui transactions
Skills: Sui Move Language Walrus TypeScript
Dooqod
🗓️ Sep 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Delaware, US
● Led backend & DevOps teams for browser-based virtual environments
● Architected microservices with EKS, GitHub Actions, Helm, and Terraform
● Managed backend stack in TypeScript, Express.js, Apollo GraphQL
● Designed EC2-based custom OS environments and integrated Jitsi via Karpenter
● Built Argo CD-driven GitOps flows; enforced security with Kyverno and Cosign
● Integrated SAST into pipelines; architected VPC security boundaries
Skills: Amazon EKS Kubernetes CI/CD Helm Charts TypeScript Express.js Apollo GraphQL Zeronode MongoDB Redis AWS Auto Scaling Karpenter Kyverno ArgoCD
Block Nerds · Contract
🗓️ Jan 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos
● Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters (Amazon EKS)
● Built secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
● Managed Helm configs across environments
● Worked with Rust and TypeScript services for containerization
● Integrated Apollo GraphQL and monitored via ELK, Prometheus
● Developed Kafka-based data pipelines for inter-service communication
Skills: Amazon EKS Kubernetes CI/CD Helm Charts Rust TypeScript Apollo GraphQL Apache Kafka AWS Lambda
Heropa
🗓️ Mar 2017 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos
● Promoted from backend engineer to CTO leading platform transformation
● Architected React + GraphQL-based platform
● Managed AWS/Azure integrations, LMS integrations (Moodle, Litmos, Docebo)
● Built RDP over browser and advanced remote features
● Migrated legacy monolith to microservices
Skills: TypeScript Express.js Zeronode Node.js AWS CloudFormation MongoDB AWS Nginx
Steadfast.tech
🗓️ Aug 2016 – Mar 2017 · 8 mos
● Built scalable REST & GraphQL APIs
● Integrated payments, notifications, and A/B test systems
● Co-authored Zeronode (ZeroMQ-based microservice framework)
Skills: AWS Docker TypeScript Express.js Apollo GraphQL Zeronode Vault MongoDB Redis Terraform Nginx
Forkize · Full-time
🗓️ Jun 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos
● Engineered high-throughput REST APIs
● Built microservices for batch tasks (email, failover, reporting)
● Designed ETL pipelines and personalization systems
Skills: Node.js Express.js Apache Kafka Apache ZooKeeper PostgreSQL Vagrant Vault Socket.io Aerospike Lua
Gignut
🗓️ Jan 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos
● Developed ERP/CRM systems end-to-end
● Built live chat and real-time APIs (WebSockets)
● Implemented BI dashboards with Grafana + InfluxDB + Cassandra
Skills: Express.js Node.js MongoDB Redis Socket.io Cassandra Grafana
Plexonic (acquired by Playrix)
🗓️ Nov 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos · Yerevan, Armenia
● Developed social/casual games for web & mobile
● Built backend REST APIs and game logic
● Integrated social APIs (Facebook) and ad networks
Skills: ActionScript PHP PostgreSQL jQuery
Energize Global Services
🗓️ Sep 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Yerevan, Armenia
● Developed and maintained RightNow CX CRM (later acquired by Oracle)
Skills: C# ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC JavaScript