Reza Payami
Lead Software Engineer at Canva
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReza Payami is a seasoned lead software engineer with 13 years of experience architecting large-scale, distributed and event-driven systems for enterprise products. Based in San Francisco, he has driven high-impact initiatives at Canva, Salesforce, and PayPal—ranging from AI integrations and API platform work to global real-time routing and company-wide GraphQL unification. He combines deep object-oriented design skills with hands-on systems engineering, having built globalization services, internationalization libraries, and infrastructure tooling adopted across organizations. Reza’s work spans backend APIs, gRPC and GraphQL services, and developer-facing libraries that bridge product teams and open-source standards like CLDR and ICU. Beyond shipping production systems, he has a track record of leading cross-team integration efforts and shrinking mobile app footprints through data-externalization and CDN strategies. His academic background in computer software engineering and an interdisciplinary master’s from Stanford in Music, Science and Technology hint at a blend of technical rigor and creative thinking.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyAmirkabir University of TechnologyMaster's degree, Music, Science and Technology, Master's degree, Music, Science and Technology at Stanford University
Github Skills (16)
cldr9
parser9
json-data8
localization8
formatter8
intl8
icu8
translation7
unicode7
json7
internationalization7
javascript6
strings2
locale1
globalization1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rpayami/faust2au
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:70 commits in 12 days
rpayami/usage-estimate-pricing
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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