Ariel Tarayants
@arieltarayants
I’m a software architect and AWS solutions leader focused on code quality, system design, and measurable outcomes.
IsraelWhat I'm looking for
I’m a cross-industry software architect and AWS Solutions Architect with 8 years of experience designing, reviewing, and modernizing complex systems across AWS. I’m driven by measurable outcomes—reliability, security, cost efficiency, and long-term maintainability.
In high-impact environments, I architected a production-grade financial data pipeline processing 100,000 global securities with deep historical coverage, supporting backtesting, portfolio management, and live algorithmic trading. I also contributed to a data center exit that reduced infrastructure costs by 45%, and built a quantitative trading algorithm delivering 55% yearly returns with a 1.78 Sharpe ratio.
Most recently, I’ve been leading enterprise cloud modernization and adoption—designing data archiving solutions using Apache Iceberg on S3, orchestrating LLM-powered workflows with AWS Bedrock and RAG/multi-agent patterns, and building AI-assisted prospecting that reduced research time by 70% while improving efficiency by 65%. I also guide organizations through modernization toward large-scale analytics and ML workloads using Spark, Iceberg, and lakehouse patterns.
I combine hands-on engineering with architecture-level judgment, evaluating code for correctness, maintainability, scalability, security, and future-proof design. As an instructor and technical reviewer, I help teams turn business goals into executable plans, using structured reviews of tradeoffs across speed, reliability, operational complexity, and business value.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Software Architect Instructor
Golden Standards AWS Global Dev Experts
Jan 2026 - Present (6 months)
Train senior engineers and technical leaders on software architecture, clean code, design patterns, and implementation strategy. Lead structured review sessions to evaluate competing approaches and provide coaching on long-term maintainability and risk-aware architecture decisions.
Architect enterprise data and GenAI solutions, including data archiving and LLM/RAG/multi-agent workflows. Lead modernization and governance across accounts and networks, driving observability, security, cost accountability, and AWS Well-Architected assessments.
Principal DevOps
Lawyal, Profitech
Jan 2024 - Nov 2024 (10 months)
Own infrastructure strategy and roadmap for a scalable AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform developer platform. Build multi-region CI/CD and operations frameworks to improve delivery speed, reliability, observability, and developer productivity.
Senior DevOps
AllCloud
Jun 2022 - Apr 2023 (10 months)
Architect and deploy enterprise-grade AWS cloud infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes for scalable, resilient multi-region operations. Implement monitoring/observability and automate infrastructure adoption using Python and Terraform to reduce downtime and improve consistency.
Enterprise Cybersecurity Specialist
Tangram Soft
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022 (11 months)
Review cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows to identify security gaps, misconfigurations, and operational risks. Use Nessus and Qualys to identify vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation based on risk and business impact.
DevOps Monitoring & Alerting
Mamram
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021 (2 years 7 months)
Direct technical delivery across modernization and automation initiatives, owning scope, deadlines, risks, and implementation outcomes. Lead architecture and implementation reviews and support team building and mentoring.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Stanford University
Developed a quantitative trading platform with reported 40% live returns over 8 months and a 2.5 Sharpe ratio.
UC Irvine
Built a cloud-native AWS data lakehouse using S3, Redshift, Iceberg, Glue, and Athena with MLOps/DevOps CI/CD (Terraform and Kubernetes).
Indian School of Business
Contributed to a trading-firm data center modernization into a cloud-native platform, reducing expected operating costs by 45%.
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