Mehran Barahmand
Principal Software Development Engineer at Highspot
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMehran Barahmand is a Principal Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with 11+ years of experience building resilient front-end systems and leading engineering initiatives across large organizations like Amazon and OpenSearch. He blends deep UI expertise—improving visualization tooling, navigation, and versioning in OpenSearch Dashboards and the OpenSearch documentation site—with a practical focus on code quality, security hardening, and dependency management. At Highspot he now applies that cross-cutting experience to drive architectural decisions and shipping polished product experiences. Mehran’s background spans enterprise marketplace engineering, social-platform UX, and mentoring large teams, and he brings an uncommon mix of hands-on full-stack contributions and site-level infrastructure fixes (e.g., link checking, reverse-tabnabbing protections) that improve both developer velocity and user trust.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics, Electronics at Tabriz UniversitySampadAmirkabir University of TechnologyBengaluru UniversityBiomedicine (Pharmaceutical Engineering), Biomedicine (Pharmaceutical Engineering) at Islamic Azad University
English, Persian, Turkish
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
opensearch10
ui-components10
css10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
html10
documentation10
ruby9
react9
version-control9
typescripts8
docker8
typescript-types8
typescript8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
📊 Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1946 reviews, 46 commits, 549 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mehran primarily contributed to the OpenSearch Dashboards project by addressing linting rules and license header issues, demonstrating a focus on code quality and compliance. They also worked on bumping dependencies for Elastic UI and Charts, indicating involvement in UI component updates and integration. Furthermore, the user made changes to several frontend components, including settings modals, saved object modals, and vega visualizations, showing a broad engagement across the frontend codebase.
opensearchvisualizationsearchanalyticsfoss
opensearch-project/project-website
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
The source to opensearch.org
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 18 commits, 67 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mehran implemented several improvements to the opensearch.org website. They added a content modifier plugin to mitigate security risks, including reverse tabnabbing protection. They also enhanced the top navigation, fixed highlighting issues, and added Docker image instructions to the downloads section. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase related to font loading.
opensearch
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