Suren Vartanian

• Grew hosting infrastructure from 1 model to 12
• Cut annotation budget of Amazon Shopping roughly by 20 million annotations year
• Designed and implemented new model hosting platform using Amazon SageMaker that improved cost efficiency by 35% and performance by 25%
• Worked on Near Real Time predictions using Kenesis and built tools for obfuscating data for customers
• Build continuous training for models that require improvements on weekly basis
• Improved performance of CPU + GPU related models by de-coupling models
• Released models that helped Amazon Alexa to improve overall success rate of interactions
• -Successfully mentored interns

• Designed & implemented a new version of communication systems using Twillio API for phone and messaging improving latency by 100%
• Build CI/CD pipeline for communication team using Circle CI cutting feature development
• Re-factored & migrated code from Ruby to Kotlin
• Implemented new communication layer in Asia, that allowed to automate all communications with clients including emails, messaging, transcription
• Worked on UI parts allowing employees of AlphaSights seamless transition to a new version
• Lead koltin tech stack and adopted new patters for dependency injections and libraries
• Wrote scripts for docker and Kubernates that improved resiliency of the system
• Mentored junior and middle level developers

• Contractor at Goldman Sachs
• Owned two streaming microservice that served as data source for commodity pricing for traders. Includes full cycle of work starting from code and provisioning hosts and load balancing.
• Worked on complex task of infinity scrolling allowing to sort prices based on different columns in real time with updates.
• Work on internal tools for multiple timezone validation, tool is used by whole Goldman Sachs
• Contractor at Barclays
• Lead whole cycle of feature release for trading platform using Java, Guice, mapstruct
• Was in charge of cross regional team SCRUM meeting that included EU and NA
• Set up coding guideline for cross teams
• Designed new expandable architecture leveraging function, allowing re-usability of components
• Worked on low latency products with limited memory
• - Profiled code performance, finding memory leaks

- Worked on full cycle of a demo product that is presented to client by sales people

- Implemented features including installable application, data ingestion, packaging and adding features that go with released product

- Helped internal teams with front-end developments

- Fully developed in memory data base that would replicate real product, but wouldn't require any installations

- Re-factoring back-fixing, new releases

- Worked on new version of payments system in United Kingdom

- Designed and implemented API integration with internal tool that communicates with UK banking system

- Implemented data-base layer connecting MySQL DB with java Objects

- Bug fixes, re-factoring

- Worked on feature implementation for internal cloud system similar to AWS

- Developed software load balancer using Nginx

- Designed new architecture connecting UI components to back-end components

- Worked on various data patching for MongoDB

- Bug fixes, re-factoring