Amir Afianian

I Mainly contributed as the lead for delivering Epics where I worked closely with the design team, product managers in discovery phase, then, drafting user stories and guiding developers to deliver a highly-scalable, reliable, and lovable product. Some of my contributions include:

• Leading an epic in two delivery phases to enable fine-grained access control initially with custom solutions mainly using Django, then leveraging AWS Verified Permissions, Python.
• Co-led an epic to scale up data infrastructure that efficiently handles terabytes of data to be used by analytics team. This involved a total revamp our core data model, devising new architecture for our ingestion pipeline and datalake for hosting our clean data, and a 6 months of migration phase. Used AWS Kinesis, S3, deltalake technology powered by Databricks, spark and …
• Designed and led the implementation of our new data ingestion pipeline that involved APIs, SFTP, Databricks, Delta Live Tables, Autoloaders, SQL, etc.
• Designed the architecture and led the implementation of a Notification Service using AWS SQS, FastAPI, Postgres, AWS Lambdas, etc.

• Leading teams of 5-8 to for product delivery.
• My contributions included helping with architecting the services, training teams to go with TDD where possible, helping them to shoot their coding troubles, doing code reviews, and holding one-on-one meeting with team members and keeping up the team spirit.
• Achieved a significantly simplified offline update process for deployed services using docker, docker-compose, ansible, python.
• Achieved significant development speed up for Elasticsearch-based operations by extending django rest framework to support elasticsearch operations using Django, DRF, Kafka, Elasticsearch
• Implemented Protobuf to Jquery Search-UI Filter Schema Rule Convertor.

• Lead developer in National Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) Using Python/Django and Django-Rest Framework (DRF).

• Design and Implementation of professors’ promotion portal for Amirkabir University of Technology using Python/Django, HTML, CSS, JQuery (owj.aut.ac.ir)
• Design and Implementation of recruitment portal for Amirkabir University of Technology (jazb.aut.ac.ir)
• Design and Implementation of Automated SSL/TLS analysis web application (https://sslcheck.cert.ir)
• Design Core Security Architecture For Ministry of Justice (http://amval.adliran.ir/)
• Advanced User Simulation, Stress, and Load Testing of Amirkabir University Portal using locust and python.
• Publishing A Survey on Evasive Malware (Published By ACM Computing Surveys)

• Design and Implementation of Secure Distributed Storage System With Flexible Availability (m/n Scheme) using Python / Django / Apache