Ara Anjargolian
AI Engineering Lead at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAra Anjargolian is an AI engineering leader and founder with 15 years of experience building scalable data-driven platforms and high-performing teams. As Co-Founder and CTO of YCharts he grew the product from a two-person startup to a 100+ person, $30M+ revenue fintech SaaS business and architected ingest, search and nightly analytics pipelines processing hundreds of thousands of financial metrics. Now leading AI for Google Workspace for Education, he manages distributed teams across the US, Mexico and India to deliver Gemini-powered teacher tools at scale for 180M+ MAUs. He combines hands-on system design—authoring a Redis-backed autocompleter serving 700K+ queries/day and an Airflow pipeline reducing stale data 80%—with talent-building initiatives that raised engineer retention 50% and converted >70% of interns to full-time hires. An active contributor to Django tooling (notably enhancements to django-pipeline), he blends open-source craftsmanship with product-minded execution.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrial Engineering and Computer Science, B.S., Electrial Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Armenian
Github Skills (9)
packaging10
python10
package10
django10
google-closure-compiler9
closure9
git9
javascript8
css8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-pipeline
Oct 2010 - Oct 2010
Pipeline is an asset packaging library for Django.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Ara contributed to the Django-Pipeline project by modifying and enhancing its asset packaging functionality. Their work included refactoring YUI compressor settings, merging external branches, and reverting changes. Furthermore, the user integrated Git-based versioning and implemented a Closure compiler for JavaScript compression, improving the project's asset management capabilities. They also added CSS URL replacement capabilities.
django
ara818/django-autocompleter
Mar 2011 - Apr 2020
Redis-backed autocomplete for Django models
Contributions:118 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 9 years 3 months
autocompletedjango-modelsredis
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