About
Keivan Beigi has been working with server solutions for the past 12 years and front-end JavaScript apps for the past 5 years. He enjoys working on highly scalable and well instrumented distributes systems as well as complex client side JavaScript applications. He has a Software Development and Architecture degree from George Brown and a MCTS certificate from Microsoft. In his free time he wears many hats in a couple of different open-source projects.
His specialties include: Distributed Systems, Single-page applications, Continuous Integration and delivery, Performance Optimization, Tracing and Instrumentation.
His specialties include: Distributed Systems, Single-page applications, Continuous Integration and delivery, Performance Optimization, Tracing and Instrumentation.
Past Customers
MottoWealth - Head of Technology (2017-Present)
- Designed and oversaw the implementation of Motto's software Infrastructure and services (Crypto trading and Visa Debit gateway to crypto)
- Worked with founders and investors to find achievable goals/features based on their "wishlist".
- Worked with legal and our partners to ensured full system compliance with GDPR and PSD2 regulations
- Negotiated integration/SLA contracts with two major partners.
Plex Inc - Senior Platform Architect (2015-2017) - https://www.plex.tv/
- Managed and coordinated the development and release of Plex for three major platforms (Sony PlayStation, Google Chromecast and Samsung Smart TVs).
- Coordinate with our partners to manage and organize delivery dates, expectations and platform support features.
- Remained in constant communication with our user community to understand and address our users’ needs.
- Part of the small team leading the migration of our legacy platform (Backbone/Marionette/Handlebars) to a more modern React/ES6 application.
VisionCritical - Senior Architect (2014-2015)
- Lead architect responsible for revamping the company's global security infrastructure.
- Designed and managed the development of an Single-Sign-On solution based on OAuth2.
- Responsible for the global authentication and authorization of partners and customers.
- Responsible for compliance with regional data residency (e.g., EU data must not leave EU jurisdiction).
PayPal - Enterprise Integration Engineer (2008-2010)
- Worked in partnership with IT teams of numerous Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Cricket, Metro PCS, Boost, ExxonMobil, Cox National to directly integrated Tio’s financial systems allowing real-time transaction processing.
- Helped design, develop, and maintain a distributed financial system responsible for processing over one billion dollars in transactions.
- Acted as a catalyst for new technologies such as WCF, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework to push for reliability, efficiency and maintainability.
- Introduced Aspect-Oriented Architecture. This change brought uniform security, instrumentation and tracing across the company’s entire IT infrastructure.
- Designed and oversaw the implementation of Motto's software Infrastructure and services (Crypto trading and Visa Debit gateway to crypto)
- Worked with founders and investors to find achievable goals/features based on their "wishlist".
- Worked with legal and our partners to ensured full system compliance with GDPR and PSD2 regulations
- Negotiated integration/SLA contracts with two major partners.
Plex Inc - Senior Platform Architect (2015-2017) - https://www.plex.tv/
- Managed and coordinated the development and release of Plex for three major platforms (Sony PlayStation, Google Chromecast and Samsung Smart TVs).
- Coordinate with our partners to manage and organize delivery dates, expectations and platform support features.
- Remained in constant communication with our user community to understand and address our users’ needs.
- Part of the small team leading the migration of our legacy platform (Backbone/Marionette/Handlebars) to a more modern React/ES6 application.
VisionCritical - Senior Architect (2014-2015)
- Lead architect responsible for revamping the company's global security infrastructure.
- Designed and managed the development of an Single-Sign-On solution based on OAuth2.
- Responsible for the global authentication and authorization of partners and customers.
- Responsible for compliance with regional data residency (e.g., EU data must not leave EU jurisdiction).
PayPal - Enterprise Integration Engineer (2008-2010)
- Worked in partnership with IT teams of numerous Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Cricket, Metro PCS, Boost, ExxonMobil, Cox National to directly integrated Tio’s financial systems allowing real-time transaction processing.
- Helped design, develop, and maintain a distributed financial system responsible for processing over one billion dollars in transactions.
- Acted as a catalyst for new technologies such as WCF, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework to push for reliability, efficiency and maintainability.
- Introduced Aspect-Oriented Architecture. This change brought uniform security, instrumentation and tracing across the company’s entire IT infrastructure.
Testimonials
"Phenomenal. Keivan and his team quickly grasped what we needed to build, took time to thoroughly understand the structure of how our existing software and database worked so they could work well within it, and delivered an important new functionality for our tool. Our entire team was a bit spread out for most of this work, they had to work across a lot of time zones, but they still were effective and timely in all of their communications."
- Ben Tyson, Co-Founder, Good Fight Political
"Working with Keivan and his team at Polyfill was a great experience. They felt like part of our team. Everyone at Polyfill was a constant professional, communicative, and worked efficiently to deliver our project on-time."
- Keith Fiore, COO, Endless AI
Education
Software Development and Architecture degree from George Brown
MCTS certificate from Microsoft
MCTS certificate from Microsoft
Hobbies
Snowboarding
Reading
TV/Movies
Reading
TV/Movies