Ara Matevossian is a Principal Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA, with a decade-plus career building resilient cloud-native systems and health analytics products. He has led major initiatives at IBM Watson Health Imaging—such as Clinical Review and Patient Synopsis—and now drives platform reliability and DevOps strategy at Covera Health. His skill set spans Terraform/CloudFormation, Flux/Helm, Kubernetes, Kafka, and languages like Java, Go, and Python, enabling end-to-end design, deployment, and operational excellence. Beyond feature delivery, he focuses on orchestration and ML pipeline efficiency, having improved processing for image and NLP models across care-advisor products. Known for combining hands-on coding with proactive incident containment and GitOps adoption, he excels at turning firefighting into durable automation. His academic background in computer science (Tufts MS, UMass Amherst BS) underpins a pragmatic approach to complex distributed systems in healthcare.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Tufts University
BS Computer Science / Mathematics minored in Economics, BS Computer Science / Mathematics minored in Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Ara Matevossian - Principal Software Engineer at Covera Health