Arash Yalpani
Principal Engineer at Forgent
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolArash Yalpani is a Principal Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, LLM-driven systems and large-scale production infrastructure. He returned from a multi-year CTO role to focus on engineering craft, architecting and operationalizing RAG pipelines and agentic AI architectures that handle millions of customer requests. At Holidu he not only built high-throughput systems but also onboarded and coached teams to take ownership, and earlier at Zalando he scaled platform throughput 100x while growing engineering from 10 to 150+. His background includes founding and shipping consumer and edtech mobile apps built with React Native and serverless backends, demonstrating product instincts alongside deep technical skills. Known for consolidating fragmented monitoring and job-processing landscapes into unified, reliable platforms, he blends systems thinking with practical delivery. He combines startup founder experience with enterprise-scale execution, making him effective at translating ambitious ML use cases into maintainable production services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (165)
realtime10
sketch10
chatbot10
scrape10
nodejs10
mongodb10
npm10
react10
javascript9
twitter9
drawing9
meta-tags9
sdk9
reactive-programming9
inferno9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ayalpani/lisd5
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:470 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ayalpani/dripdrop
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 24 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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