Summary
Aurash Behbahani is an experienced engineering leader with a track record of building and scaling high-performing teams and mission-critical infrastructure across cloud, data, and machine learning domains. Currently leading Stripe’s database storage services organization, he has driven product and operational excellence for systems spanning CDC, distributed consensus, caching, and relational databases. His career includes senior engineering leadership at startups and hyperscalers—growing organizations, launching resilient services at Oracle Cloud and Amazon, and steering engineering strategy at Firebolt, AI2, and Spice AI. Comfortable owning the full stack, he pairs hands-on technical depth with people-first management and a knack for turning complex distributed systems into reliable, customer-facing products. Based in Woodinville, WA, he brings a pragmatic blend of startup agility and large-scale systems experience that belies his relatively recent formal title tenure.
2 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento