Amin Ariana
Senior Director Of Platform Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAmin Ariana is a Silicon Valley engineering leader and founder with 25 years of experience building and scaling platform and product engineering organizations from founding stages to late growth. Currently Senior Director of Platform Engineering after serving as Distinguished Engineer in the Office of the CTO, he combines deep, hands-on expertise across distributed systems, blockchain, ML, and full-stack stacks (Kotlin, Elixir, Java, Rails, React) with strategic stewardship of cross-functional priorities. He has driven platform and ads infrastructure at Google and Brex, led blockchain initiatives for EVs, and co-founded multiple startups, demonstrating both operator discipline and founder-level ownership. Known for mentoring engineers up to principal level, he pairs rigorous fundamentals—system design, concurrency, cryptography—with practical delivery across fintech, Web3, SaaS, and real-time streaming domains. Based in Seattle and a Carnegie Mellon and Waterloo alumnus, he’s equally passionate about language learning and coffee, a detail that underscores his continuous-curiosity approach to leadership and technology.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Software Management, Master's Degree Software Management at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
postgresql10
jsonb10
databases10
db210
coverage10
build-automation10
test-coverage10
javascript10
sql10
d110
database10
json10
sqlite10
mysql10
mariadb10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aminariana/data-uri-to-img-url
Nov 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 13 pushes, 4 comments in 3 years 9 months
aminariana/leetcode
Jul 2020 - Jun 2024
I'm collecting all my past LeetCode solutions here so that I surprise myself with how much smarter I am when not under the time gun. You should do this too. Feel free to fork.
Contributions:152 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
golangpythonsmarterleetcodegun
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