About

Amin Ariana is a seasoned Silicon Valley veteran with over 20 years of hands-on technical experience in multiple stacks of engineering. He has a world-class education in Computer Science, Engineering, Management, Product Design, Entrepreneurship, and Human Psychology. Amin has a cross-discipline work track record at Microsoft, Google, and startup ventures of every stage. As a Principal Software Engineer, Product Architecture, and Growth-stage Leadership expert, Amin has facilitated mission-critical decisions across teams of engineers in fast-growth Internet startups from zero to exit. He has decision ownership where stakeholders need engineering to understand product and business, and a track record of crafting and de-risking the roadmap as fast as the go-to-market timeline. Amin has deep knowledge of both modern and legacy architectures tempered with prioritizing business value. He is a facilitator and mentor under ambiguity, directing teams of mixed-level engineers. Amin builds trust via empathy, aligning motives, clear expectations, and transparent communication. Amin's technical expertise includes Kotlin, Elixir, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, Solidity, C#, C++, Matlab, and more. He has a deep knowledge of Design Patterns, Algorithms, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Data Structures, Memory Management, Caching, Concurrency, Numerical Computation, Abstraction Specification, Applied Cryptography, Compilers, and Distributed Systems. Currently, Amin is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Brex, where he is the Co-Designer of Brex's Empower Platform. He is spearheading the re-foundation of services used by new and existing customers and leading the objective to platformize financial workflows across the globe. Amin has also worked at other notable companies, including Zume Inc. and Canoo, where he served as Staff Software Engineer - Principal Architect, Machine Learning, and Principal Architect - In Charge of Blockchain, respectively. Amin holds a Master of Software Engineering Management (MS) from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) from the University of Waterloo. He has cross-functional practice in go-to-market strategy, business model discovery, product management, customer validation, design roadmap, and scaled engineering of emerging technologies. Amin's TechStack includes Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain, ML, Ethereum, Javascript, SQL, ETL, AWS, Solidity, Smart Contract, Mobile, product designer, designer, product manager, RabbitMQ, Ruby, Kubernetes, Typescript, NoSQL,