Michael Kardjian
MBA Candidate
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kardjian is an MBA candidate at USC with eight years of hands-on software engineering and project management experience at the intersection of real estate, technology, and capital. A full-stack engineer by training, he led frontend initiatives that generated $5M ARR, onboarded and mentored distributed engineering teams, and built automation tooling that tripled business productivity. He pairs technical fluency—gained at Hack Reactor and through production work at Branch—with practical construction and estimates experience, having produced bids from $100K repairs to a $5M multifamily rebuild tied to wildfire recovery. Michael also manages a high-performing private investment portfolio and has applied options strategies to achieve strong returns, reflecting a rare blend of product, engineering, and capital-allocation skills. Now based in Los Angeles, he’s pursuing a dual MBA/MRED to formalize his expertise in real estate finance and scale tech-enabled investment solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Semester Expedition Participant, Semester Expedition Participant at NOLSInternational Marketing, International Marketing at ESPM Escola Superior de Propaganda e MarketingBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Quantitative Social and Cultural Systems, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Quantitative Social and Cultural Systems at Wesleyan UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA Finance at USC Marshall School of BusinessAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive Computer Science, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Computer Science at Hack ReactorHigh School, High School at Manlius Pebble Hill School
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Armenian
Github Skills (7)
java4
science4
checkout3
data-structures3
computer-science3
algorithms2
android1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
makardjian/kardjian-alt-assignment
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Frontend take-home assignment for Alt - October, 2021
Contributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 days
Accurate-e-Tail/makardjian-server
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
This is the service portion of the FEC project HRSF108
Contributions:29 PRs, 41 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
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