Summary
Tigran Khazhakyan is a software engineer and former CTO with 11–14 years of experience who pairs a PhD in Microelectronics with deep hands-on backend engineering in Python and cloud-native SaaS architecture across GCP, Azure, and AWS. He has led and grown cross-functional teams up to 10 people, translating product requirements into scalable APIs, data models, and integrations while maintaining operational and governance standards. His career spans high-tech tools and semiconductor verification at Synopsys and system engineering for RF/SDR at National Instruments, giving him unusual depth in both low-level hardware-aware engineering and cloud software delivery. As co-founder and principal engineer, he balances strategic technical direction with day-to-day implementation, enabling rapid iteration without sacrificing long-term maintainability. Based in Armenia, Colombia, he is particularly focused on building engineering organizations and platforms that let teams move fast with reliability and clear delivery processes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Quantum College
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electronics Micro and Nanoelectronics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electronics Micro and Nanoelectronics at Yerevan State University