Ramin Shahab

Designed and delivered a distributed buffer solution with idempotent processing, replays and retry semantics to address OOM errors for a client. Implemented safe data migrations, schema normalization, and query optimizations on Postgres and RDS.

Owned backend services and data infrastructure supporting 5M+ daily active users at 99.95% uptime, processing 50M+ daily requests across AWS Aurora, Couchbase, and Memcached. Led a zero-downtime migration of an over-capacity live analytics database to AWS Aurora using a hot replica and cut-over strategy.

Designed and shipped a distributed social inviting service as an isolated microservice with Redis and AWS SQS scaling to millions and handling 100K RPS at peak traffic. Developed an AI chatbot using the Rasa Framework that reduced support tickets by 50%.

Owned Design Home's in-game e-commerce store end-to-end as a 0-to-1 initiative, designing a real-time backend reward-rules engine and transaction processor in Python, AWS ECS, Couchbase, and Redis. Modernized legacy moderation service into a containerized Python Flask microservice.

Founding engineer on an early-stage crypto portfolio aggregator, taking a UI prototype to a working MVP. Built connectors for Binance, Kraken, Coinbase, and Bittrex behind a common adapter interface and implemented resilient exchange sync with 429 detection and exponential backoff.

Technical lead designing brand based initiatives, leading technical design, implementation, deployment and support for custom WordPress websites. Led a full scale redesign of Clorox corporate website from product spec to full backend solution.

Built enterprise backend software and a Node.js/MongoDB CMS platform for Ricoh's image processing and document management system.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from California State University, East Bay.

Master of Science in Computer Science from California State University, East Bay.