Summary
Experienced Cloud Engineer & Software Engineer with 8+ years of expertise in cloud services, API development, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes. Skilled in building secure, scalable AWS architectures, integrating third-party APIs, and implementing OAuth, SAML, and JWT for authentication. Adept at deploying high-performance solutions that optimize reliability, security, and cost.
Professional Experience
PennyMac — Cloud Software Engineer
Los Angeles, CA • Jan 2024 – Present
- Migrated on-prem services to AWS using API Gateway, Lambda, and S3 for a customer-facing loan application.
- Implemented OAuth with Cognito and SAML with OneLogin for secure access.
- Built APIs for Bandwidth & IntelePeer (messaging and call processing).
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using CDK and Troposphere.
- Set up CloudFront and S3 lifecycle policies for performance and cost control.
- Authored Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts for multi-region EKS clusters.
- Optimized GitLab CI/CD pipelines to reduce failures and improve release cycles.
- Managed self-hosted GitLab, Jenkins, and SonarQube for automation and code quality.
- Provisioned infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Built monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, and New Relic for real-time observability.
PennyMac — Software Engineer
Los Angeles, CA • July 2016 – Jan 2024
- Deployed gRPC-based messaging services in Amazon EKS; integrated Twilio and Bandwidth.
- Standardized APIs using OpenAPI/Swagger.
- Implemented multi-region strategies with S3 replication and API Gateway.
- Created Grafana dashboards from CloudWatch and OpenSearch data.
- Built REST & gRPC APIs (Lambda Go/Python, API Gateway, JWT, OneLogin SAML).
- Migrated RabbitMQ consumers to AWS Lambda and SQS.
- Implemented OpenSearch + CloudWatch for logs and alerting.
Skills
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, Bedrock)
- Containers & IaC: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
- CI/CD & Automation: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Chef, Rundeck
- Messaging & Events: RabbitMQ, Logstash, SQS
- Auth & Security: OAuth 2.0, JWT, SAML, AWS IAM, Cognito
- Monitoring & Logging: Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, CloudWatch
- Languages: Go, Python, JavaScript, React, Node.js
- Databases: MongoDB, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, RDS, Redis
- Search & Indexing: Amazon OpenSearch, Elasticsearch
Education
Master’s Degree in Computer Science — Vanderbilt University, Tennessee • Aug 2022 – Apr 2024
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science — Azad University of Tehran
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services, 2025