Farshid Ghods
Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFarshid Ghods is an engineering manager in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building and scaling production systems across Python, Go, Objective-C/Swift and mobile front-ends. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping backend services with MongoDB/Couchbase/MySQL and CI/CD pipelines—with people leadership at companies like LinkedIn, Rambus and Couchbase. His background includes launching a SoC-based CryptoManager platform and founding automation and quality teams that spanned the U.S. and India, reflecting a strong operational focus on reliability and deployability. An active open-source contributor, he has shipped iOS charting and UI improvements used in popular apps and contributed to infrastructure tooling like RabbitMQ and Jenkins plugins. He enjoys practical ML experiments with TensorFlow and brings a toolkit that ranges from low-level ctypes drivers to Flask/Celery data services. Farshid is known for blending performance-conscious, memory-efficient design with pragmatic release engineering to move complex projects from prototype to scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Masters at Syracuse University
Github Skills (19)
ios10
charts10
chartist10
user-interface10
ui-design10
chartjs10
charting10
uid10
front-end-development10
swift10
animation9
objective-c9
interface-design9
video-player9
playback9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kevinzhow/PNChart-Swift
Jun 2014 - Sep 2017
A simple and beautiful chart lib used in Piner and CoinsMan for iOS(https://github.com/kevinzhow/PNChart) Swift Implementation
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 20 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Farshid primarily contributed to the implementation of charting functionality within the iOS application. Their work involved adding a line chart feature, including the necessary code and configurations. They also added delegate functionality for user interaction with the chart, enabling click events on line points and key points. Further commits show swift-style refinements, indicating a focus on code quality and adherence to best practices.
swiftioschart
kevinzhow/PNChart
Nov 2013 - Mar 2018
A simple and beautiful chart lib used in Piner and CoinsMan for iOS
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:257 commits, 72 PRs, 93 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Farshid primarily contributed to the development of a charting library for iOS. Their commits focused on implementing the core chart functionality, including line and bar charts, and integrating them into a demo application. They added UI elements like labels, as well as features such as animations and multiple-line support. Furthermore, they worked on fixing chart display issues and integrating the library with Cocoapods.
ioschart
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