Armin Sameti
- Engineering lead, backend and DevOps. Vancouver, Canada.
- I build backend systems and the cloud infrastructure under them, and lead the teams that run both.
- Twelve years in. Promoted into the lead role at each of my last three companies.
- Looking for work that needs both: hands-on coding and deep cloud expertise.
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Hootsuite
2022 – now- Lead, Software Development, DevOps2025 – now
- Lead the Backend Platform team, which runs the shared services every other engineering team builds on.
- Own its roadmap, planning, hiring and delivery.
- Lead large migrations of live systems, without taking them down.
- Brought AI-assisted engineering into the team's daily work.
- Rolling out coding agents and automated code review across the team's delivery workflow.
- Run incident response and postmortems for the platform.
- Senior Software Developer2022 – 2025
- Backend and infrastructure engineering on a large PHP and Go platform, on Kubernetes and AWS.
- Databases, caching and runtimes, upgraded and replaced under live traffic.
- Tooling in Go, for developers and for the cluster.
Snapp!
2019 – 2022- Tech Specialist, backend team lead2020 – 2022
- Led the backend team for driver operations at the largest ride-hailing app in the Middle East.
- Started the move from a PHP monolith to Go services.
- Senior Software Engineer2019 – 2020
- Backend services for the driver side, with the pipelines and monitoring around them.
- Go, PHP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Prometheus and Grafana.
Bamilo
2016 – 2019- Technical Team Lead2017 – 2019
- Led a team of four building the logistics platform for Iran's first online marketplace.
- 10+ hubs, 4 cities, 6,000+ packages a day.
- Full Stack Developer2016 – 2017
- Back-office, campaign and reporting features.
- PHP, Laravel, MySQL and MongoDB.
Earlier
2014 – 2015- Junior Full Stack DeveloperPishgaman Atieh Elite
- Where it started: building web applications end to end.
- Co-founderGhalamestoon
- An online learning startup, accepted into the Trigup accelerator.
Projects
my own- OurBlok. A strata and parking management app. Live at ourblok.ca.
- Keyway. An open-source macOS client for every major VPN and proxy core, written in Go and SwiftUI. GitHub
Education
and training- MSc, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Khatam University, 2017 – 2020.
- BSc, Software Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 2012 – 2017.
- Leadership training, McKinsey Academy, 2025: Team Leadership and Leadership Essentials.
- Along the way: taught C and C++ at a high school.