Armin Balalaie is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and analytics platforms. He has progressed through senior engineering roles at Meta, Mixpanel and Amplitude, where he focuses on large-scale data and reliability challenges while balancing big-picture design with meticulous debugging. A quick learner and collaborative teammate, he enjoys exploring unfamiliar codebases and applying first-principles thinking to root-cause difficult bugs. Trained at Sharif University and UC Irvine, his background blends rigorous academic foundations with hands-on product engineering across startups and hyperscale environments. Notably, he moves comfortably between deep technical problem solving and mentoring peers to improve engineering practices.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering at Shiraz University
Diploma Mathematics and Physics, Diploma Mathematics and Physics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
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Armin Balalaie - Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude