Soma Froghyar

Work History

Birds.ai

08.2023 - Current

Orchestrated development process enhancements, optimizing efficiency and accelerating project delivery timelines.
Developed and maintained full-stack IoT services for low-powered edge device, leveraging computer vision models.
Architected resilient testing infrastructures, ensuring comprehensive validation and upholding stringent quality benchmarks.
Mentorship of junior colleagues, cultivating collaborative environment conducive to continuous learning and professional advancement.
Spearheaded automation initiatives for build and deployment workflows, refining release management workflows for enhanced agility.
Advocated for coding standardization and excellence, instilling culture of consistency and best practices within the team.

Finaps BV

01.2023 - 08.2023

Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
Built and maintained several services and corresponding frontend solutions using Golang and Angular framework with tight deadlines.
Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Angular and working to improve overall team performance.
Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.

Finaps BV

01.2022 - 01.2023

Led the complete refactor of client-project's monorepo and Angular frontend to Nx, as well as structural and granular level code improvements to achieve better overall performance, minimized bundle-size (50% decrease) and better security (self-refreshing jwt authentication).
Learned Go(lang) programming language for another project and built a scalable greenfield service that acts as the client company's business rule engine using Open Policy Agent - CNCF Graduate technology.
Successfully created infrastructure components for entire team to deploy to various stages in the client's Kubernetes setup using Terraform, ArgoCD and Helm Charts.

Craneware PLC

06.2019 - 08.2021

Quickly mastered the given stack (Angular and .NET Core) to take part in several projects such as rebuilding product front-ends, notification system and global component implementations to name a few.
Developed homepage/masthead of the Trisus platform involving several integrations as well as working closely with several stakeholders across the company.
Built and maintained the Trisus Pricing Transparency solution for a customizable and law-compliant public-facing site for healthcare providers along with a supporting CMS in the Trisus platform.
Led the migration of the entire Trisus platform from Angular 8 to 11, orchestrating a global group of engineers' development flow as the main platform engineer.