Arash (Ash) Outadi

Software Engineer

Experience

Software Engineer

BitComplete

Mar, 2025 -

Built dynamic regional pricing using Stripe, resulting in 300% revenue increase from international markets in A/B testing
Lead integration with Customer Engagement Platform (Customer.io), significantly improving our ability to segment, track and target customers resulting in increased open rates
Developed various UI flows for the platform using React, including a pricing modals, TikTok integrations and upsell modals

Software Engineer

Dropbox

Nov, 2022 - Nov, 2024

Custom rules engine used for efficiently assigning code reviewers, making automated comments based on code changes and other actions, resulting in significant time savings for engineers
Internal Go CLI for interacting with git/Github and managing pull requests using internal tooling and CI
Go service that ensures all code owners and subscribers have reviewed PR before merge, integrated with Github webhooks
A Notification service built-in on top of Github webhooks that addressed short-comings with built-in Github notifications

Software Engineer

KeepTruckin

Nov, 2020 - Aug, 2022

Unified AWS Lambda deployment pipeline with rest of KT infrastructure using custom K8s controller, vastly improving developer productivity
Mentored and onboarded new hires on the IoT team; allowing them to hit the ground running and contribute immediately!
Significantly reduced IoT toil and embedded developer workflow and tooling, resulting in much faster release cycles

Software Engineer

Infoblox

Jul, 2019 - Oct, 2020

Added Prometheus health checks to all services using Kubernetes service discovery, replacing manual health checks and significantly reducing toil
Lead initiative to implement distributed tracing significantly improving observability when dealing with complex multi-service bugs

Software Engineer

Ravelin

Sep, 2017 - Aug, 2018

Introduced end-to-end tests using Cypress to Angular dashboard to catch regressions during critical user paths
Improved/implemented many new features of graph visualizations, including closest neighbors highlighting and various filters
Built a critical chrome extension used daily by the sales team for prospecting

Projects

JobBot

The bot that landed me my job at Ravelin! It's automatically able to apply to job listings using personalized cover letter based on keywords from the job description.

Source Python Selenium XPath NLP

Improved UBC Transcript

Bookmarklet that enhances and beautifies the unofficial UBC transcript, it gets about 450 hits per month and is included as a sidebar resource on the r/UBC subreddit!

Write-up Source Python Flask TypeScript MongoDB AWS Lambda

Alphabet Match

Memory matching game built to help adults learn English letters and their associated sounds. Made with love for my grandmother!

Demo Source React TypeScript

Sudoku Solver

A Sudoku Solver that uses the constraint propagation technique to efficiently solve puzzles.

Demo Source C# ASP.net React Azure

RoboRooney

Slack-bot to quickly scan all available openings at football pitches using the MyLocalPitch API and help arrange soccer scrimmages through Slack

Source Go Slack Heroku

Blog posts

Catching up...

Goals and systems for this year pt.3

Python's csv.DictReader for easy field by field comparisons

Goals and systems for this year (Re-visited)

Can't fall asleep? Code instead?

Starting out with Nix - A Misguided Adventure

Goals and systems for this year

Matpltlib 2D grid with labels

Explore Review Comments With Github API

Ensure auto-generated code is always up-to-date with compile-time assertions in Go

Tutorial - Parsing Go structs with LALRPOP (Rust Parsing Library)

Tutorial - PL/pgSQL - Converting Reverse IP Pointer Records

Working Through Crafting Interpreters - Scanning - Part 1

Bash wrappers around dangerous commands

Tutorial - Adding Contexts via Go AST (Code Instrumentation)

Accidental Static Class Variables

Keeping A Daily Log

Improved UBC Transcript