Farshid Zaman

About Farshid Zaman

I am a passionate software developer who loves to build applications that provide the best user experience for end users. My expertise is in API design, product development, platform operations, infrastructure scaling and optimizations. I have been working in the tech industry for more than 8 years as a Software Engineer. I have worked in the ad tech, video tech and transportation tech industries so far. I do enjoy exploring different industries because it gives me the chance to work with different kinds of technologies. My specialization is on web and mobile development.Besides coding, I love to teach, travel to different countries to experience new culture and food. In my leisure time I like to do photography, play basketball, go snowboarding and binge watch new shows on Netflix!

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Vimeo

   Jul 2024 — Present · NY, US

   Platform / Ops• Served as a primary Platform/Operations Engineer in a small platform team, responsible formaintaining 24/7 high availability and low latency of critical services, including participation inon-call rotation and rapid incident resolution• Led database optimization initiative, removing 80+ unused indexes and ~2TB of unused data,significantly reducing storage costs (~$40k/year) and improving query performance.• Eliminated N+1 query issues across multiple endpoints, measurably improving overall and reducing infrastructure costs.• Significantly optimized autoscaling to reduce ~$75k in server costs per year.Product• Architected and shipped a complete overhaul of the Continue Watching experience on VimeoOTT.• Worked in building live events management features including 24/7 streaming support and admin controls for ending live streams.• Worked as the point person for onboarding enterprise clients and resolved high-priority issues involving geo-blocking, SSO, and playback.• Implemented the translation/localization feature for different resource attributes across theplatform.• Worked alongside other engineers to build a data pipeline that drives the primary analytics tool(NPAW) for Vimeo OTT.

Education

• University of Houston

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2011 — 2016

• App Academy

  Web Development

  2016 — 2017

Skills

• Test Driven Development
• Ruby on Rails
• Web Development
• Ajax
• Circuit Design
• Matlab
• Jquery
• C
• Cmos
• Fpga
• Digital Circuit Design
• Flux
• Microsoft Office
• Testing
• Electrical Engineering
• React.js
• Digital Signal Processing
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Html
• Transistors
• Mvc Architecture
• Ruby
• Javascript
• Rspec
• Postgresql
• Engineering
• Integrated Circuit Design
• Microprocessors
• Vhdl
• Electronics Hardware Design
• Semiconductors
• Analog Circuit Design
• Git
• Computer Architecture
• Lightroom
• Heroku
• Sql
• Restful Webservices
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Photoshop