Pooya Jaferian

Engineering lead with experience in building usable and performant applications using web technologies.

Vancouver, Canada

PJ

About

My expertise is building full-stack applications Javascript. I have a solid academic background in user experience design, computer science, algorithms, object-oriented, and functional programming. I love building and working in high-performing teams, and helping engineers grow and improve their engineering skills.

Work Experience

Twilio Segment
Current

2020 - Current

Principal Engineer

I am actively involved in enhancing Segment's destination ecosystem, with a focus on the Segment partner portal, the destination framework, and the core services that ensure data delivery to third-party destinations.

Senior Engineering Manager

Led the Segment Libraries and SDKs team, focusing on creating open-source SDKs for devices and servers to integrate applications with Segment. Throughout my tenure, we successfully revitalized and updated key SDKs, notably Segment's renowned analytics.js, alongside others including React Native, Swift, Kotlin, and Node.

Atrium

2019 - 2020

Engineering Manager

Atrium is a corporate law firm and technology company providing fast, transparent, and price-predictable professional services to startups. We raised $75.5M from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and General Catalyst, among others. We are using React, Typescript, GraphQL, and Ruby on Rails to build a marketplace for professional services. Atrium was dissolved in March 2020.

Parsable

2016 - 2019

Engineering Manager, Web

Managed a team of six frontend engineers, distributed in Vancouver, San Francisco, Bali, and Mexico. My responsibilities were threefold: (1) establishing the long term vision for the platform and leading various initiatives to keep the platform in a healthy state. (2) conducting one-on-ones, helping with roadblocks, mentoring team members, and empowering them in their day to day activities. (3) contributing to the code-base and work on features as an individual contributor.

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

As a member of Parsable web platform team, I was involved in shipping six major features in a cross-functional team of frontend, backend, and mobile engineers, and was the tech leading for five of the features.

    Hootsuite

    2014 - 2016

    Software Engineer

    Hootsuite Labs was specialized in building and shipping products at an unmatched speed and agility. As a full-stack software engineer, I was part of a team that successfully shipped the following products (technical lead for Hootsuite Amplify, and individual contributor for the other two): Hootsuite Amplify Hootsuite Suggestions, and Aras Social Content Recommendation Engine.

    Software Engineer

    Designed and developed the Dynamic Prepaid Seamless Expiry (DSED) system using J2EE, JBoss, and Oracle DBMS. The DSED system processed maximum of 36 million charging data record files during a 24-hour window and updated the subscribers' credit expiry data over a 4-hour window.

    Education

    University of British Columbia

    2007 - 2014
    PhD, Computer Engineering

    Skills

    JavaScript
    TypeScript
    React/Next.js
    Node.js
    GraphQL
    Go
    AWS
    Terraform
    Docker