Arash Yalpani
Principal Engineer at Forgent
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolArash Yalpani is a Principal Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, LLM-driven systems and large-scale production infrastructure. He returned from a multi-year CTO role to focus on engineering craft, architecting and operationalizing RAG pipelines and agentic AI architectures that handle millions of customer requests. At Holidu he not only built high-throughput systems but also onboarded and coached teams to take ownership, and earlier at Zalando he scaled platform throughput 100x while growing engineering from 10 to 150+. His background includes founding and shipping consumer and edtech mobile apps built with React Native and serverless backends, demonstrating product instincts alongside deep technical skills. Known for consolidating fragmented monitoring and job-processing landscapes into unified, reliable platforms, he blends systems thinking with practical delivery. He combines startup founder experience with enterprise-scale execution, making him effective at translating ambitious ML use cases into maintainable production services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (131)
stackblitz10
chatbot10
mongodb10
chatgpt9
cheerio9
javascript9
meta-tags9
ai9
reactive-programming9
realtime9
python9
metadata9
sketch9
wysiwyg9
opengraph9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ayalpani/dripdrop
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 25 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ayalpani/lisd5
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:470 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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