Summary
Areg Nersisyan is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building high-throughput, resilient distributed systems and media infrastructure in the Bay Area. He has led cross-team migrations, eliminated large volumes of tech debt, and tuned hot paths to boost per-host throughput while running production-safe experiments on 100M+ payloads with zero incidents. Comfortable across backend stacks and cloud platforms, he has shipped low-latency GraphQL services, platform resiliency features, and priority-based SLO enforcement used by dozens of engineers. Areg prioritizes observability and team trust—having stood up monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices—and mentors junior engineers to scale impact. Trained at UCSB and proven at LinkedIn and OpenAI, he combines a researcher’s curiosity (early lab and tutoring experience) with pragmatic operational rigor.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at De Anza College
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Homestead High School
Russian, Armenian, English