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Ara Arakelyan

@araarakelyan

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Director of AI Engineering driving production-grade AI systems and high-performing teams.

Armenia

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What I'm looking for

I seek leadership roles where I can drive AI/ML strategy, mentor engineers, build production-grade systems, and scale reliable data and model pipelines in collaborative, growth-focused teams.

I am a Director of AI Engineering with 12+ years leading cross-functional teams to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI and software systems. I combine deep expertise in AI/ML, system architecture, and software engineering with hands-on experience across cloud platforms, databases, and orchestration tools to deliver measurable business impact.

My career highlights include architecting context-graph structured memory for agent reasoning, building scalable ETL pipelines to enable organization-aware decision-making, and implementing SaaS automation that cut manual onboarding and trial workflows dramatically. I mentor engineers, reduce operational risk, and optimize throughput while driving model quality and reducing hallucinations in production systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Director of AI Engineering

Current

Kubiya AI

Sep 2025 - Present (5 months)

● Improved AI agent reasoning accuracy via context-graph memory, dependency management, and state modeling.
● Empowered organization-aware AI agents with organization-specific data collected through automated pipelines.
● Enabled AI agents with skills and memory, enhancing reasoning and reducing hallucinations and prompt drift.

Go Python Neo4j ETL Prompt Engineering Kubernetes Docker PostgreSQL Vercel Temporal K8S Agno Claude Agent SDK Cloud Custodian Apache Airflow fastAPI GCP AWS Azure Azure DevOps Git

Director of Engineering

Softconstruct

Aug 2017 - Sep 2026 (9 years 1 month)

● Optimized partner onboarding from 4–5 days to 10–20 seconds (>99%) through a fully automated SaaS platform.
● Reduced partner trial-to-production transition from 4–5 months to 3 weeks (85%) via a multi-approval internal platform.
● Boosted new partner throughput 600–900%, from 10 to 70–100 monthly, through scalable, automated data workflows.

Go Python AWS PostgreSQL Kafka Kubernetes Terraform CI CD Elasticsearch SaaS IGaming GCP Postgres Docker Redis Firebase OpenSearch SigNoz

Senior Software Engineer

Hystrix LLC

Feb 2017 - May 2017 (3 months)

● Improved page load time by 40% by establishing new architecture, caching mechanisms, and network protocols.
● Lowered the time for deployments and new releases by 80% by introducing the best DevOps and CI/CD practices.
● Diminished bug rates by 20% through mentoring junior engineers and conducting code reviews.

PHP JavaScript AWS PostgreSQL Redis CI CD Terraform Jenkins

Software Engineer (Freelance)

Upwork

Apr 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 9 months)

● Elevated product income by developing a unique web calculator that implemented Australian laws and regulations.
● Increased the productivity of cooperation by 30% by developing a chatting system for a Canadian job-finding project.
● Enhanced the number of employers by 20% by creating a time-scheduling feature for a Canadian job-finding project.

PHP JavaScript Laravel AWS MySQL Redis REST Twilio

Junior Software Engineer

Iguan Systems

May 2014 - Mar 2015 (10 months)

● Lessened the number of human mistakes by 15% by developing a mobile application for doctor/patient interactions.
● Enhanced patient satisfaction by 30% through surveys by developing reminder push notifications for medication intake.
● Optimized team velocity by supporting and assisting senior engineers and a team leader to deliver features on time