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Artur Saradzhyan
Senior Software Engineer
Belmont,MA
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer (Platform)
SimplyBusiness
07.2022 - Current
- Built systems for processing large volumes of payments, insurance quotes, and customer emails, orchestrating bulk workflows to enable automatic policy renewals; expanded the platform's quoting capabilities to support them.
- Worked on monolith decomposition, extracting various services into dedicated microservices with zero downtime, defining strict input/output contracts and maintaining parallel in-process and API paths throughout each migration.
- Built various high-usage, business-critical APIs, implementing strict schema validation and authentication, and setting up monitoring for latency, availability, and system health.
- Prototyped and shipped AI agentic capabilities to production, including MCP servers in Backstage and hosted agents (RubyLLM + custom harness) that analyze and edit insurer quoting configuration.
- Developed Slack agents using Strands Agents and DynamoDB for internal workflows.
- Owned and maintained Flask microservices, Ruby libraries, and Rails applications, configuring OpenTelemetry traces, SLOs, and alerts to monitor system health.
IT Technician
Elm Tree Research
07.2018 - 07.2022
- Designed custom software applications and automated workflow scripts, replacing manual internal processes.
- Administered IT infrastructure—network maintenance, server administration, systems testing, and hardware troubleshooting—to maintain continuous uptime.
- Managed identity and access management (IAM) across Microsoft 365, provisioning user accounts, permissions, and licensing.
- Maintained core business applications, ensuring availability for Healthcare/Laboratory Information Systems (HIS/LIS).
Freelance Developer
Self
01.2019 - 07.2022
- Architected and delivered custom, full-stack web applications for diverse clients using Flask, FastAPI, React, and PostgreSQL, spanning domain-specific platforms like crypto research tools and renewable energy marketplaces.
- Managed full lifecycle cloud infrastructure on Digital Ocean, handling deployment, server security hardening, storage configuration, and ongoing system maintenance.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Physics, Mathematics
Denison University
Granville, Ohio05-2017
Skills
- Distributed Systems Design
- Data Modeling (PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
- AWS Cloud Services (EC2, ECS, S3)
- Agentic AI Engineering (Strands, RubyLLM)
- Cloud Tooling Proficiency (New Relic, Snowflake)
- Production Support & Incident Management
- Test Driven Development & Agentic Development
- Python (Flask, FastAPI, Strands)
- Ruby (Ruby on Rails)
- Typescript (React, Backstage)
- SQL, NRQL, Terraform, Bash
Interests
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer (Platform)
SimplyBusiness
07.2022 - Current
Freelance Developer
Self
01.2019 - 07.2022
IT Technician
Elm Tree Research
07.2018 - 07.2022
Bachelor of Science - Physics, Mathematics
Denison University