Reza Yovan
Royal Oak
Summary
Dynamic Software Engineer with a proven track record at Ford Motor Company, specializing in Python and React.js. Spearheaded the development of an AI tool, generating over 260,000 images and enhancing user engagement. Adept at API integration and CI/CD automation, while mentoring peers in best practices, driving team success and innovation.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn
05.2023 - Current
- Spearheaded the development of AI-Design-Assistant, an internal tool at Ford enabling users to interact with cutting-edge image and video generative AI models, driving AI adoption with 260,000+ images generated and 12,000+ unique users.
- Engineered scalable APIs and backend infrastructure using Python and FastAPI, ensuring seamless integration and high-performance support for AI-driven design and marketing workflows.
- Enhanced frontend experience with React.js, developing intuitive UI components and leading a JavaScript-to-TypeScript migration, improving code quality, error detection, and development efficiency.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines with Tekton, eliminating manual multi-step builds and accelerating deployment efficiency across development and production environments.
- Developed a metrics collection and visualization framework, providing actionable insights into user engagement and system performance, enabling data-driven decision-making for AI tool enhancements.
Software Engineer
Optilogic Inc.
Ann Arbor
11.2021 - 04.2023
- Developed supply chain optimization application to allow companies to model, run scenarios, and come up with optimal configurations for their supply chain.
- Implemented data validation and validation reporting features allowing customers to visualize errors with their data, allowing them to debug and fix models with bad input.
- Created the ability for users to apply scenarios on their data, allowing them to run “what-if” situations to test different supply chain configurations.
- Introduced Vlookup functionality so users could reference external data from within their supply chain models, making it easier to dynamically pull for their models from other data sources such as dbs, files, etc.
- Improved performance of MIP optimization engine bringing solve times down from hours to minutes utilizing Numpy vectorization and pandas DataFrames, while also experimenting writing custom C code to be called from the Python api.
- Mentored team members w/ less software background about programming best practices such as static type checking, branching strategies, and consistent versioning, as well as teaching software design patterns.
- Modeled real world supply chain for potential customers as part of sales efforts to show optimization and greenfield analysis capabilities.
Software Engineer
Freelance
Remote
05.2021 - 08.2022
- Identified and rectified inefficiencies in a mid-sized business' billing workflow, freeing up 50-100 hours of manual data entry per month.
- Created a web app using Vue.js and Python, streamlining the process of uploading internal data and generating invoices through third-party APIs.
Software Engineer
Coupa Software
Ann Arbor
11.2020 - 11.2021
- Responsible for the development and maintenance of multiple C# .NET micro-services for the Coupa Supply Chain cloud platform providing integral support and development of features allowing enterprise customers to model, design, and optimize their supply chains on the web.
- Developed external REST API allowing customers to interact with supply chain models and customer datasets programmatically utilizing Apache Kafka for data streaming, allowing customers to integrate custom workflows with their supply chain models.
- Optimized creation of Elasticsearch index by implementing a retention policy for old index documents reducing the number of documents in the index from millions to a couple hundred thousand. This resulted in 90% reduction in index build times allowing for faster deployments, reducing the possibility of timeouts, and faster query responses.
- Implemented frontend features in react/redux allowing customers to view logs of queued model solve runs.
Software Engineer
Llamasoft Inc.
Ann Arbor
10.2018 - 11.2020
- Responsible for maintaining and implementing features for a C# library that was consumed by web and desktop teams to pre-process customer data from supply chain models and convert them to input for optimization solvers, in addition to processing the output from those solves.
- Refactored output processing code to reduce dependency on hard-coded column ordering. This removed the possibility of introducing bugs and required less coordination between teams when changing table schemas.
- Communicated across support, professional services, and applied research teams to triage support issues and define requirements to allow customers to run better optimizations for their supply chain models.
Product Development Intern
Llamasoft Inc.
Ann Arbor
05.2018 - 08.2018
- Worked on cross-functional team to create a proof of concept visualization app using third party APIs to integrate with graphing and visualization software, utilizing React-redux frontend and C# backend.
Education
B.S. - Computer Science
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI05.2019
Skills
- Python and C# programming
- JavaScript and TypeScript development
- Database management (SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB)
- Frontend frameworks (Reactjs, Redux, Vue)
- Microservices architecture
- Object-oriented programming (OOP)
- Functional programming (Haskell, Rust)
- API development and integration
- CI/CD automation
- Data visualization techniques
Developing Skills
- Rust
- Haskell
- Typescript
- NextJS
- Functional Programming
Timeline
Software Engineer
Ford Motor Company
05.2023 - Current
Software Engineer
Optilogic Inc.
11.2021 - 04.2023
Software Engineer
Freelance
05.2021 - 08.2022
Software Engineer
Coupa Software
11.2020 - 11.2021
Software Engineer
Llamasoft Inc.
10.2018 - 11.2020
Product Development Intern
Llamasoft Inc.
05.2018 - 08.2018
B.S. - Computer Science
University of Michigan