Arek Manoukian is a Principal Software Developer based in Montreal with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across cloud platforms and microservice architectures. He has driven high-availability services at AWS and Hopper, owning features end-to-end and operating services that handle substantial throughput with strong operational excellence. Comfortable across the full stack, Arek blends backend reliability (APIs, containerization, CI/CD) with AI/ML and NLP experience from projects like an open-source legal chatbot powered by TensorFlow, scikit-learn and Rasa. A pragmatic mentor and independent decision-maker, he has coached teams on agile practices and led migrations from monoliths to microservices. Trilingual and curious, he pairs outdoor pursuits like rock climbing with a continuous interest in emerging ML and AI techniques.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Concordia University
Diploma of College Studies, Health Sciences, Diploma of College Studies, Health Sciences at Vanier College
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biochemistry at McGill University
A simple ruby gem web scraper for extracting course information from Concordia University's web pages.
Contributions:58 commits, 4 PRs, 66 pushes in 11 months
rubywebscraper
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