Mahyar Babaie
Software Engineer at Riot Games
Lake Forest, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMahyar Babaie is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems, test automation, and developer tooling across major game studios and enterprise environments. He has strong hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS, and React, and a track record of improving CI/CD, test coverage, and system reliability at Riot Games and Blizzard. Mahyar progressed from QA automation into engineering leadership by architecting cross-team test frameworks for Kafka, WebSocket, and HTTP services and migrating pipelines to reusable GitHub Actions workflows. Now based in Lake Forest, CA and leading engineering at Corelight, he blends deep backend engineering with a pragmatic quality-first mindset that reduces flakiness and speeds delivery. An interesting through-line in his career is repeatedly converting manual testing bottlenecks into automated, production-grade frameworks that scale across teams and titles.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Irvine Valley CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
English, Persian, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
poc4
react2
nodejs2
mongodb2
javascript2
css2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shakarax/ThisIsFine
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 25 pushes in 21 days
mahyarbabaie/Guild-Website-Back-End-POC
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
POC for the back-end of the Guild-Website-POC (https://github.com/Mahyar121/Guild-Website-POC)
Contributions:3 PRs, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
reactjavascriptnodejspocguild
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