Summary
Vicken Simonian is a Senior DevOps Engineer in Los Angeles with 14 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms. He combines hands-on systems programming in Go, C++, Python and Ruby with pragmatic DevOps practices—designing CI/CD, feature flagging, observability, and IaC to drive iterative delivery. At Papaya he led adoption of immutable containers, Kubernetes-based migrations, and automated security patching; earlier roles involved real-time media and spatial computing systems, including shipping a WebRTC-based screencast across Mac, Linux, and Windows. Comfortable across backend, tooling, and ops, he has a knack for rapid prototyping that turns research-grade code into production-grade services.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Software Engineering, MEng Software Engineering at Arizona State University
University of California, Los Angeles