Shahen Hovhannisyan
Technical Architect at Toptal
Yerevan, Armenia
Summary
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Top SchoolShahen Hovhannisyan is a Technical Architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering scalable systems for both enterprises and startups, currently leading architecture at Toptal. He combines hands-on development in Rust, Go, and JavaScript with strategic leadership, having served as CTO at multiple real-estate and marketplace ventures and managed teams of 20+. Shahen has a strong mobile and media pedigree—authoring and refactoring a native React Native video-processing library and building streaming pipelines and mobile apps across several products. Known for turning complex ideas into pragmatic, maintainable architectures, he also prioritizes developer productivity through refactoring and automated release processes that cut bug rates and speed delivery. Based in Yerevan, Armenia, he pairs a formal M.Eng. background with a curious, AI-enthusiast mindset that keeps him exploring new languages and system designs.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at National Polytechnic University of ArmeniaMaster of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at 195 hight school
English, Russian, Armenian
Github Skills (12)
video-processing10
ios10
react-native10
360-video10
android10
react9
swift9
javascript8
javas8
xcode8
java8
testing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
shahen94/react-native-video-processing
Nov 2016 - May 2022
Native Video editing/trimming/compressing :movie_camera: library for React-Native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:59 releases, 26 commits, 112 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Shahen primarily focused on developing and refactoring components for the React Native video processing library. Their contributions included initializing the project, adding and updating tests for the VideoPlayer and Trimmer components, and refactoring existing components like VideoPlayer to incorporate new props. They also made significant changes to the iOS side of the library, including optimizations and size settings for video previews. They changed the repository name and updated the package.
android-video-editorreactreact-nativecamerajavascript
shahen94/react-native-shape-image-view
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Native Custom Shape Images and Views for RN
Contributions:4 releases, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
react-nativecustom-shapeios
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