Armin Balalaie
Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolArmin Balalaie is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and analytics platforms. He has progressed through senior engineering roles at Meta, Mixpanel and Amplitude, where he focuses on large-scale data and reliability challenges while balancing big-picture design with meticulous debugging. A quick learner and collaborative teammate, he enjoys exploring unfamiliar codebases and applying first-principles thinking to root-cause difficult bugs. Trained at Sharif University and UC Irvine, his background blends rigorous academic foundations with hands-on product engineering across startups and hyperscale environments. Notably, he moves comfortably between deep technical problem solving and mentoring peers to improve engineering practices.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering at Shiraz UniversityDiploma Mathematics and Physics, Diploma Mathematics and Physics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)University of California, Irvine
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
601reputation
38kreached
4answers
7questions
Github Skills (43)
kubernetes10
docker10
testing10
go10
spring8
scheduling8
spring-boot8
distributed-systems8
java8
netflix8
golang8
kubernetes-monitoring7
ecosystem7
open-telemetry-java7
mesos7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
failify/failify
Nov 2017 - Jan 2022
A new testing framework for distributed systems
Contributions:160 commits, 5 PRs, 89 pushes in 4 years 3 months
distributed-systemstestingclock-driftfailure-injectionnetwork-failure
sarahysh12/MyStackOverflow
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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