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Aryan Ghavidel

Aryan Ghavidel

Software Engineer

Tehran, Tehran, IR
+989361761222
English, Hebrew, CSS, JavaScript

Background


About

About

Strong developer, with over 10 years of experience, focusing on process and performance. Seeking a software developer position, as an individual contributor and or managerial role where I may contribute to a fast paced environment utilizing the latest tooling, frameworks and methodologies in the frontend space.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Software Engineer / Design

    Jun, 2018 - Present

    • Created Real-Time MTA module, stock ticker and calendar modules for Magic Mirror.

    • Contributed to open source Truffle Suite tooling.

    • Technologies used: Solidity, TruffleSuite, Python, Vue.js, MagicMirror, Solidity, React

  • Lead Software Engineer

    Aug, 2019 - Present

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital.

    • Architected Single Page Application in Vue.js with modular Vuex store.

    • Developed a modular system to streamline current and future projects, by building out a component library.

    • Drove technical discussions to keep the project in scope to meet targeted dates for deliverables.

    • Technologies used: SCSS, Nuxt.js, Vue.js, Vuex, JavaScript, ESLint, Prettier

  • Software Engineer

    Dec, 2018 - May, 20195 months

    HBC is a diversified retailer focused on driving the performance of high quality stores and their omnichannel platforms and unlocking the value of real estate holdings.

    • Created modular and scalable react components utilizing low touch continuous integration and continuous development in a go pipeline to increase frequency of production pushes and low touch deployments.

    • Deployed shell scripts to insure integrity of git commits, making it easier to identify commits and their respective tickets in the development pipeline. This increased work productivity and output.

    • Iterated on designs and functionality driven by the data captured through A/B tests deployed to production.

    • Technologies used: Docker, AWS, JavaScript, React.js, WebPack, SASS/CSS3, GO, Git, Jest, ESLint

  • Lead Software Engineer

    Mar, 2015 - Sep, 20183 years 6 months

    Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams play in the National League (NL) and American League (AL), with 15 teams in each league. The NL and AL were formed as separate legal entities in 1876 and 1901 respectively.

    • Built consumer facing websites that are used by millions of people per day, such as MLB.com, MiLB.com, HBOnow.com, NHL.com, SNY.tv, and 120sports.com.

    • Developed scalable, high performance websites for MLB. Met daily with business and product owners to make sure technical and product specifications are flushed out and adhered to throughout the development process.

    • Worked in AWS, creating lambda jobs to automate deployments to s3 buckets for CMS controlled data files.

    • Architected pattern templates for reusable, modular and interoperable components that are themed through CMS outputted data files.This gives content creators the ability to create dynamic pages.

    • Mentored junior engineers, organized and led weekly talks about emerging technologies, company standards and best practices.

    • Technologies used: Node.js, Express, JavaScript, jQuery, JSP, BackBone.js, Handlebars, Git, Jira, SVN, Grunt, Gulp, WebPack, NPM, AWS, Jenkins, LESS/SASS/CSS3, Moca/Chai, ESLint, StyleLint

  • Front End Engineer

    May, 2011 - Feb, 20153 years 9 months

    Scripps Networks Interactive is the leading developer of high-profile content for many lifestyle media platforms including television, digital, mobile and publishing. Some popular lifestyle brands - HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel and Great American Country

    • Managed & Maintained all the digital properties, including enhancements, bug fixes, performance, security, unit testing, 3rd party oversight, integrations, and code deployments.

    • Responsible for tightening security, creating svn architecture, code audit, theme creation, improving work flow and communication on all of the blogs housed under Scripps Networks Interactive.

    • Managed and led small projects allowing the lead developer and project manager to focus on high-level organizational oversight. This increased team output, trust and productivity.

    • Implemented HTML5 video player to increase revenue on iOS devices, by javaScript Object Oriented Programing.

    • Worked in an agile environment with daily stand-ups, tracking time in harvest and tickets/projects in Jira with peer code review to check integrity, performance, stability and reliability across platforms and browsers.

    • Technologies used: WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, jQuery, Adobe Day, Java, Git, Jira, mySQL, Charles Proxy, iOS

  • Contractor Front End Engineer

    Feb, 2011 - May, 20113 months

    Acquired by Facebook, Hot Studio has a 16-year history working with some of the world’s biggest and best brands. They have an intricate understanding of what businesses need and a flair for building tools and resources to help meet those needs.

    • Prototyped a new e-commerce site for Gilt’s user experience study using to improve UX/UI.

    • Coordinated with a remote development team in San Fransisco.

    • Assisted clients on site with their e-mail marketing campaign template and integration into their email service.

    • Technologies used: PHP, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery and JavaScript, BeanStalk, Git

  • Contractor Front End Engineer / Designer

    Feb, 2011 - May, 20113 months

    Havas London (formerly known as Euro RSCG London) is a London-based integrated advertising agency. It is part of the Havas Worldwide network (formerly known as Euro RSCG Worldwide) network which has 316 offices located in 75 countries throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

    • Prototyped a new e-commerce site for Gilt’s user experience study using to improve UX/UI.

    • Coordinated with a remote development team in San Fransisco.

    • Assisted clients on site with their e-mail marketing campaign template and integration into their email service.

    • Technologies used: PHP, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery and JavaScript, BeanStalk, Git

  • Lead Front End Engineer

    Jun, 2010 - Feb, 20118 months

    Using Petflow a customer can purchase foods and treats for their dogs and cats as a single one-time purchase or set up an auto-replenishment system that allows them to receive their favorite pet food or supplies every two to 16 weeks, or at a frequency of their choosing.

    • Sourced images from vendors directly to create and coordinate an extensive and cohesive library of brand assets.

    • Developed dynamic landing pages on the fly for marketing A/B tests and click through conversions to track conversion rates.

    • Applied cross browser techniques to ensure the brand & identity are consistent on all platforms for all end users.

    • Re-structured the site architecture and file organization for consolidation and optimization to enhance latency.

    • Technologies used: PHP, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, Smarty and XML, Drupal, egloo, Git

  • Contractor Drupal Developer

    Mar, 2010 - Jun, 20103 months

    Small startup studio tasked with overhauling https://www.mls.com

    • Worked on rebranding and launch of Major League Soccer site, and syndicating all 16 team companion sites.

    • Created theme pages for Drupal. Assisted in the re-theme of sub pages for a sidebar implementation.

    • Fixed the navigation bar to allow current state, as well as dropdown navigation.

    • Re-structured the homepage layout to match the approved Photoshop composition.

    • Cleaned up Drupal in the back end, eliminating unnecessary panels and blocks as well as optimizing the CSS.

    • Technologies used: PHP, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, Drupal, Git

  • Contractor Front End Engineer / Designer

    May, 2008 - Dec, 20091 year 7 months

    Atari Games is the DNA of the Atari Group, with a vast. catalog of over 200 titles. This also includes multimedia. activities with Atari Studios, and Licensing.

    • Coordinated with the project manager, setting deadline dates to ensure project movement and completion.

    • Created a custom template in Word Press to drive the ‘Project Runway’ Wii game site for atari.com

    • Implemented third party API’s

    • Technologies used: WordPress, HTML, PHP, CSS, FBXML, Flickr, Git

  • Front End Engineer / Designer

    May, 2008 - Dec, 20091 year 7 months

    Rockstar Games is a multinational video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take-Two Interactive following its purchase of British video game publisher BMG Interactive.

    • Worked on the marketing campaigns for the Grand Theft Auto Suite, i.e. GTA IV, Chinatown Wars, Episodes from Liberty City, etc... and Beaterator, Midnight Club Los Angeles, Bully, Max Payne 3 and Red Dead Redemption.

    • Coordinated with Rockstar International to develop, produce and design all the internationalized versions of the game sites as well as keeping them synced with their US counterpart.Set the research department up with acomprehensive way of sending out e-blasts, archiving sent e-blasts, and developed new research sites as needed.

    • Updated the Rockstar games, Rockstar games studios, Rockstar Warehouse, Take2 Store, Social Club and Take2 Games sites.

    • Created a developer documentation library and made the process of pushing staging sites to live more efficient.

    • Designed, developed and deployed the Rockstar Propaganda e-newsletter via Lyris List Manager e-mail software.

    • Technologies used: CakePHP, Apache, perforce, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Yahoo! Store, ActionScript 3, mySQL, WordPress, Lyris

  • Front End Engineer / Designer

    Jan, 2008 - Jan, 201810 years

    Blindsight is a 2006 documentary film directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Sybil Robson Orr for Robson Entertainment.

    • Work remotely to continuously update and maintain the site with the latest media and news content.

    • Coordinated the move of the website and DNS settings to a new hosting service as well as tying in Pay-Pal shopping cart.

    • Made the website W3C and 508 compliant to ensure usability for the vision and hearing impaired.

    • Technologies used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript 3.0

Skills

Skills

  • Web Development

    Git

    LESS/SASS

    Webpack

    CSS3

    HTML5

    Node

    JavaScript ES6

    Handlebars

    Jira

  • System Design

    Performance

    Debugging

    MagicMirror

    StyleLint

    ESLint

  • PHP

    mySQL

    GraphQL

    AWS

    Jenkins

    React.js

    Vue.js

    Express

    RaspberryPi

    Jest

    Babel

  • Solidity

    TruffleSuite

    Python

  • Design

    PhotoShop

    Illustrator

    Print

    Web

    Mobile

    Atomic

    Patterns

    Responsive

    Bootstrap

Education

Education

  • Fine Arts, Concentration in Interactive Design, Bachelor, University of Maryland

    Aug, 2001 - Jan, 2005

  • Computer Science, Continuing education, New York University

    Oct, 2008 - Oct, 2011

Interests

Interests

  • Wildlife

    ClimbingHikingCampingMycology
  • Ice Hockey

    NHLWashington CapitalsCaps
References

References

  • David Krulik

    Elan's work on my website davidkrulik.com has always had a special place in my memory. It was the very first website I endeavored to create, and the experience of working with Elan is marked by a few things, the least of which was his professionalism from start to finish, tirelessness in making sure the site was prefect and the fact that he was just a really cool guy to work with. This was 3 years ago. I can only imagine that since then, Elan's skills and technical prowess have only grown and matured. He comes highly recommended.

  • Matthew Hartman

    Mr. Trybuch was gracious enough to assist me on a electronic media presentation for a government client. His enthusiasm and can-do attitude did not go unnoticed, as this project required significant re-work. I appreciate his undying professionalism on many early mornings and late nights.

  • Joshua Marans, MS, LACMHC

    I hired Elan on multiple occasions to do some freelance design work for Marriott International and each time he produced a clean, unique product, and his communication with us was outstanding.

  • Dante Chinni

    Elan is a hard-working, imaginative and inventive graphic designer who is easy to work with.