Armin Golzaar
Member Of Technical Staff at Perplexity
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArmin Golzaar is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling mission-critical backend platforms for autonomous vehicles and consumer products. He led and grew Marketplace and Dispatch engineering at Cruise—managing multiple teams and driving a major refactor that prepared the platform to scale to hundreds of thousands of AVs while maintaining 1.5 years without production outages. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and manager, he has built core services (vehicle data sources, secure mTLS gateways, entitlement-based auth) and shipped revenue-driving integrations like scheduled deliveries. Now at Perplexity, he focuses on LLM-based products for consumers and enterprises, blending deep systems engineering with emerging AI productization. His background spans startups to Tesla and Carnegie Mellon, combining entrepreneurial grit with rigorous CS training.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Civil Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Persian
Github Skills (39)
google-cloud9
datadog8
go8
cloud-storage8
vault8
opentracing8
nodejs8
javascript8
golang8
secrets7
apm7
sql6
sqlite6
encryption5
microsoft-sql-server5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arminm/arminm
Apr 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
arminm/particle
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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