Armin Balalaie

Armin Balalaie is a Senior Software Engineer currently working at Amplitude since April 2023, focusing on the Query Infra team. Previously, Armin held a similar role at Meta from April 2022 to January 2023, contributing to the replication team for ZippyDB, a key-value store designed for high availability and high throughput. At Mixpanel, from March 2020 to March 2022, Armin played a key role in decoupling a distributed workflow scheduling system, enhancing maintainability through a gRPC API. Early career experience includes internships at Stellus Technologies, where critical improvements were made to test suites and monitoring components, as well as a senior engineering position at Pegah DataMiners of Sharif, architecting a Mobile Backend as a Service in Iran. Armin's educational background includes a Master's degree in Software Engineering from UC Irvine and a Master's in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.