Arjan N.

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in AI/ML engineering with extensive backend experience.
Led significant projects in mobile and SaaS industries.
Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in AI/ML and mobile applications.

Contact

arjan@getaida.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Ai/ml EngineeringBackend DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringMachine Learning InfrastructureBackend EngineeringTechnical LeadershipMobile Application DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWSAirflowAlgorithmsCC++CassandraCloud SchedulerData StructuresDockerGCEGCPGoJavaK8sKafka

About

I'm always interested in the ethical use of technology to truly bring about positive change in human lives. You can reach me at arjanirh@gmail.com Tech stack: Golang, Python, Java/Kotlin; AWS (SQS, Step Functions, S3), Kafka, Micro-services, Docker, Swagger/REST API; GCP: BigQuery, Spanner, GCE; kubernetes I love to ski. I also like traveling, music & art shows, biking, kayaking and exploring SF.

Experience

13 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Aida

Member of Technical Staff

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

Building the AI sales platform of the future

Cash app

AI/ML Engineering

Jun 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

I work in the Financial Crimes team at CashApp (Part of Block Inc) and we detect and prevent illegal activity like gambling, money laundering, child abuse, human trafficking, etc. on CashApp and Square.
We use traditional Machine Learning and Generative AI (using LLMs like GPT) to monitor tens of billions of dollars in transactions per month.
Previously: Cash App Product Backend
Tech stack: Python, kotlin, Snowflake, Airflow/Prefect, Go, OpenAI, VertexAI and cloud platforms like GCP and AWS.

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Cruise

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Self driving cars.
ML Infra and Distributed Compute
Tech Stack: Go, GCP - Spanner, GCE, Stackdriver, Looker, Cloud Scheduler; K8s; Docker; gRPC;

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Yelp

Tech Lead

Sep 2015 – Jan 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Backend Engineer working on Consumer products.
Some of the most impactful projects I worked on:
Community Q&A (https://blog.yelp.com/2017/02/qa)
Restaurant Photo Categorization (https://blog.yelp.com/2015/08/digesting-yelp-photos-just-got-easier-now-browse-by-category)
Yelp's Engineering wide GDPR effort (Tech Lead)
Portfolio Projects for Business Owners (Tech Lead)
Call Rerouting via Twilio.
Heavily involved in Recruiting, Interviewing, mentoring junior engineers, leading tech roadmap for team.
Tech Stack: Python, REST API (swagger), Microservices, AWS (S3, SQS, Step Functions), Twilio API, MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Docker.

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Supernova app

Self Employed

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Seattle, Ithaca, San Francisco

http://supernova.launchrock.com
I built an app that enabled private photo sharing.
Launched on iOS, Android.
I built the backend (Php and later Python), as well as the client apps on iPhone (Obj-C) and Android (Java).
Also used MySQL, AWS S3, EC2
It was a fun project. I did some old school marketing [sticking flyers on car windshields ;) ].

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