Paymahn Moghadasian

Paymahn Moghadasian is a software engineer who currently works at Goldsky. Prior to joining Goldsky, Paymahn worked at Datadog from May 2020 to July 2021. At Datadog, Paymahn worked on Release Engineering to make pushing to production more effective and efficient for the whole company. Paymahn also worked on a small research team evaluating the use and migration towards ARM based workloads at the company. Paymahn presented their ARM findings to 1000+ engineers at an all hands and got very favorable feedback. Paymahn also helped mentor interns and pushed hard to gain more clarity during the OKR process.

During their time at Datadog, Paymahn made the workflow engine an API which enabled teams like Data Reliability to improve Kafka maintenance times from 3 days of manual labor to 2 hours with full automation. Paymahn also improved the reliability of CNAB by resolving recursive tree translation logic and implementing conformance tests to increase reliability of CNAB. In addition, they increased team productivity by 8x by implementing ephemeral developer environments which eliminated all contention on staging. Paymahn also increased CI reliability and CI comprehensiveness with ephemeral developer environments. Finally, they implemented one click production deployments.

Paymahn ran an ARM benchmarking effort on Cassandra clusters (1000+ hosts per cluster) and found ~2x performance/dollar improvements in benchmarking synthetic and staging workloads. As part of this effort, they had to upgrade core CI pipelines

Paymahn Moghadasian graduated from the University of Manitoba.