Arman Kazemi
Resiliency at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolArman Kazemi is a multidisciplinary journalist-turned-software professional with nine years of experience blending resilient systems work at Shopify with a background in international reporting, documentary production and editorial leadership. He has covered major global events from the Olympics to reporting from Paris after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and applies that investigative rigor to operational resilience and tooling at scale. A founder and festival director, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and cross-cultural communication—fluent reporting in English and Portuguese—to technical and creative projects. His early full-stack work building chatbots, dashboards and backend services informs a pragmatic, product-minded approach to reliability engineering. Based in Vancouver with a Master’s in Journalism from UBC, he pairs storytelling sensibilities with hands-on engineering to make complex systems understandable and dependable.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Journalism, Master's degree, Journalism at The University of British Columbia
Persian, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (27)
github8
nodejs8
git8
patch7
javascript7
sql7
orm6
mssql6
typescript6
sqlite6
json6
postgresql6
mysql6
database5
microsoft-sql-server5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Camophile/LHL-final
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 branches in 9 days
Camophile/Ruby
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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