Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 · 11 mos · Sunnyvale, CA · Hybrid

• I lead Linkedin Media Engineering team, created short form videos on Linkedin for the first time!
• Enhancing over 70% of content across the platform’s feed, profiles, events, search, and messaging through the implementation of Generative AI, AI-driven video recommendation models, and multi-platform software development.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, AI researchers, legal, trust, marketing, and data science professionals. Successfully partnered with more than 10 cross-functional organizations, yielding significant improvements in key company metrics.
• Support the organization through transitioning from multiple reorgs, Onboarded new engineers to the team while maintaining a healthy culture. Optimized organization's success by loaning & moving talent while helping the individual engineers meet their career goals.
• Lead AI-powered content relevance initiatives for video and creator platforms, leveraging ranking systems, recommendation algorithms, content labeling, human-in-the-loop evaluation, and content strategy to improve user engagement, content quality, and platform growth.
• Enhance operational quality and efficiency within the organization by leading several technology migrations, addressing and quantifying technical debt, improving monitoring and alerting processes, and implementing a streamlined execution model.

Oct 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Sunnyvale, CA · Hybrid

• Scaling event engagement and discovery across LinkedIn's ecosystem. The team drove platform growth through intelligent discovery, personalized notifications, recommendation surfaces, and foundational Event capabilities serving millions of members globally.
• Led the strategy and execution of large-scale initiatives across AI-powered content discovery, personalization, notification systems, and member engagement, partnering with 10+ engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and machine learning practitioners. Collaborated with 5+ organizations to deliver measurable improvements in member growth, engagement, and platform adoption metrics.
• Drove innovation in relevance and recommendation experiences by leveraging machine learning signals, behavioral insights, and experimentation frameworks to improve event discovery, content distribution, notification targeting, and member participation across LinkedIn's Event ecosystem.
• Partnered closely with Data Science and AI teams to develop data-driven growth strategies, optimize ranking and recommendation signals, and improve the quality and effectiveness of personalized member experiences through continuous experimentation and analysis.
• Led the Notifications Platform Working Group across LinkedIn, collaborating with 7+ teams to improve reliability, scalability, and intelligence of the notification ecosystem. Established observability frameworks using distributed tracing, drove architecture modernization efforts, and evaluated next-generation delivery models to improve user experience and operational efficiency.
• Successfully guided the organization through multiple reorgs while maintaining a high-performing and inclusive culture. Onboarded and developed engineers, sustained strong employee engagement and leadership scores, and fostered a culture of continuous learning through technical talks, knowledge-sharing initiatives, and quarterly improvement retrospectives.

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Feb 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• The Animation Studio Product team is developing innovation that will enable Netflix to create animation content internally, at scale, with access to talent across the globe. Currently, we have over 1,500 artists and are looking to scale our studio to reach over 10,000 artists across the globe. We are constantly improving our approaches to supporting creators by creating ways to showcase their work, build community, and giving them time to focus on what they do best… sparking member joy!
• Accountable for the products, tools, and technology that empower Netflix's Animation Talent Management and Production Management teams.
• Collaborate with the cross-functional leadership team to develop a roadmap and key metrics for executing the Animation Talent and Production Management product strategy.
• Develop trusted partnerships with business, product, and engineering leaders to align critical initiatives.
• Champion engineering excellence, establish key metrics, and drive continuous operational improvements.
• Determine hiring needs to execute against the product roadmap and scale the engineering team, driving a recruiting strategy from building a network, the team's network, and the recruiting team.
• Mentor and coach engineers and create growth opportunities for all team members.

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021 · 5 mos

• Production Engineering - Acquisition and Growth
• The Production Engineering team works within Netflix's Acquisition product and infrastructure teams to make sure our services are reliable and scalable. The team writes code and debugs hard problems in live production that impact more than 200 million people around the world.
• Led large, cross-functional initiatives to upkeep Netflix's production code quality and user experience.
• Worked cross-functionally to plan and execute a full code productization framework.
• Responsible for Netflix's on-call rotation program.
• Actively participated in hiring, creating candidate pools, interviewing, and assessing potential hires across Netflix's UI Engineering.

Mar 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Acquisition UI
• led large, cross-functional initiatives in account and member spaces of the Netflix platform. These projects impacted the company to attract and retain members on the platform and facilitated detection and preventing fraudulent activities within the Netflix Account Space.

Jun 2020 – Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Sep 2017 – Feb 2018 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Mar 2017 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• led and grew a team of 12 UI engineers at MyVest.
• Planned and prioritized the teamwork based on business and technological needs.
• Collaborated with different onsite/offshore teams and product stakeholders to enhance user engagement and experience across platforms.
• Coached and mentored engineers on the team and growing them to become tech leaders and senior engineers.

Apr 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Enhanced and modernized MyVest UI Architecture
• Planned and led major browser and frameworks upgrade
• Introduced a fully automated UI testing framework
• Mentoring and recruiting UI engineers

Jun 2016 – Jan 2017 · 7 mos

• Led Q&A sessions with Frontend Nanodegree students
• Review students projects and provide feedback

Aug 2015 – Jan 2016 · 5 mos · Mountain View, California

• Leading and helping new students through their Front-end Nanodegree at Udacity
• Guide students through online sessions
• Attend Weekly hangout with students to review some topics and answer their questions about Web Development

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Supporting and developing key features in high performance software-as-a-service (SaaS) Web Content Management cloud platform (WCM) leading to system improvement and customer satisfaction and appreciation.
• Designing and implementing an AngularJS framework based on (WCM) using AngularJS, Material Design, Java Rest API, JqLite and etc.
• Implementing customer requirement features easing the platform usage using Java, JQuery and Javascript.
• Applying design principles on existing code and code refactoring.
• Tracking down the upcoming platform issues in least time and gaining the "Team Captain" award.

Jun 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Tehran \ Iran

• Spread headed integrated system of didactic planning project using various web tools including ADO.Net, HTML and AJAX. Developed integrated system eliminated bureaucracy between numerous departments.

May 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Tehran, Iran

• Developed accounting and financial reporting system using Java and SQL . Enabled numerous functionalities, including exchanges between business firms, goods purchasing, payments and salaries records.

Feb 2009 – Oct 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos · Tehran,Iran

• Created web application in Java for use in company health center systems. Using Spring, Hibernate and MYSQL as database. Testing application using Selenium and JUnit.

May 2005 – Oct 2013 · 8 yrs 5 mos