Arash Izadi

Senior Software Engineer at RVO Health

Temecula, CA


Professional Timeline

  • Led platform and infrastructure architecture for application, integration, and AI-assisted engineering workflows across production systems.
  • Improved AWS reliability and operational maturity by automating infrastructure workflows, hardening services, and optimizing performance and cloud cost.
  • Built secure AWS-native platform capabilities using Lambda, IAM, Secrets Manager, S3, and Route53, with emphasis on least-privilege access and auditability.
  • Improved deployment safety and developer velocity by building reusable GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, standardized release processes, and automated validation.
  • Improved observability by defining service health indicators, logs, and operational metrics to detect issues early and guide engineering priorities.
  • Strengthen security, compliance, and auditability by enforcing infrastructure standards, access controls, and repeatable operational processes across repositories and environments.
  • Lead full-stack and integration development across Ruby on Rails, Go, APIs, and platform automation codebases, modernizing application architecture to align with infrastructure and operational requirements.
  • Write RFCs, architecture proposals, and technical experiments to evaluate new approaches for scalability, maintainability, and platform evolution.
  • Review and approve pull requests across repositories, enforcing reliability, maintainability, and secure engineering practices.
  • Use AI and LLM tooling to streamline development workflows, and design multi-agent workflows that enable parallel execution across multiple codebases and engineering tasks.
  • Mentor engineers on cloud architecture, infrastructure best practices, operational excellence, and developer tooling.

  • Improved Kubernetes platform reliability by identifying infrastructure risks, driving long-term mitigations, and standardizing operational practices.
  • Served as infrastructure stakeholder, influenced story breakdown, estimation, and delivery standards across engineering teams.
  • Modernized legacy applications and integration paths through containerization and standardized Helm-based deployments.
  • Streamlined delivery workflows using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and custom Go tooling to reduce manual release overhead.
  • Maintained AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
  • Expanded production observability by integrating Datadog and CloudWatch dashboards, alerts, and service health indicators.
  • Acted as GitHub administrator, improving repository governance and enforcing security guardrails.

  • Led development of a new MVP initiative under NDA by designing scalable Scala components under tight delivery timelines.
  • Created system design diagrams, technical flowcharts, and implementation plans to align engineers and stakeholders on complex feature behavior.
  • Modernized legacy systems by refactoring core logic and bridging integrations with current platforms.
  • Supported production readiness through regular code reviews, on-call participation, and timely hotfix delivery.
  • Maintained high code quality by enforcing documentation, automated tests, and peer-reviewed contributions.

  • Built secure Scala microservices supporting regulated healthcare workflows with compliance, reliability, and maintainability requirements.
  • Developed REST APIs and PostgreSQL-backed integration points to improve data consistency across internal and external systems.
  • Used Splunk and Datadog to diagnose issues, optimize services, and ensure operational transparency.
  • Worked on a 24/7 live production system supporting state government clients, ensuring high availability and compliance through monitoring, on-call support, and incident response.
  • Improved software maintainability by writing robust unit tests and documenting legacy behavior for continuity.

  • Developed interactive game prototypes using Unity and C# to explore real-time user feedback and game mechanics.
  • Built experimental HCI projects using Arduino, P5.js, and Processing to combine physical interfaces with digital interaction.
  • Explored creative coding and media art by integrating MAX/MSP with sound, visuals, and user input.

  • Provided desktop support and A/V troubleshooting in educational settings, including setup, diagnostics, and user support.
  • Launched and managed 10+ business initiatives by conducting research, hiring staff, and scaling user growth across global markets.
  • Brought 10+ years of customer service experience across industries, with strong problem-solving skills.

Education & Certifications

  • B.Tech. in Emerging Media Technology, CUNY New York City College of Technology, 2021.
  • A.A.S. in Music Production, CUNY Queensborough Community College, 2018.
  • Azure Fundamentals and Azure AI Fundamentals, Microsoft Learn, 2020.
  • A+ and CCNA coursework and certification track exposure, 2016.

Speaking & Community

  • Speaker, Intuit Open Source Meetup | Platform Engineering & AI (San Diego, April 2026): Presented "What is Devbox and why you need it?" on reproducible developer environments, onboarding speed, and CI consistency. Watch talk (opens in new tab)
  • Active in open source and engineering meetups across San Diego, Irvine, and Los Angeles.

Skills & Tools

Technical Skills

  • Kubernetes, kubectl, Docker, Helm, Terraform
  • Git, gh, GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Automation
  • Scala, Golang, Bash, Scala.js, Python, Ruby on Rails
  • System design, full-stack development, integration engineering
  • AWS: EC2, RDS, Lambda, IAM, Secrets Manager, S3, Route53
  • GCP exposure via Terraform-based academic and project work
  • Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch
  • PostgreSQL, REST APIs
  • CLI Tooling, macOS, Windows, Linux
  • UML, Mermaid, Sequence Diagrams
  • Prompt Engineering, RAG Systems, LLM Context Management, Internal AI/ML Tooling

Engineering Leadership

  • System Design & Technical Architecture
  • Infrastructure Stakeholder & Technical Roadmapping
  • Cross-Team Architecture Alignment
  • RFC Authoring & Technical Decision Records
  • PR Reviews, Code Quality & Governance Standards
  • Mentorship & Engineering Enablement

Core Competencies

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Application Modernization & Integration Work
  • Full-Stack Development Across Application and Platform Layers
  • Service Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • SLI/SLO Definition & Operational Excellence
  • Monitoring & Observability Strategy
  • Incident Response & Production Support
  • Cloud Cost Optimization & Infrastructure Efficiency
  • Secure Architecture, Compliance & Least-Privilege IAM
  • Live Debugging in Monolithic & Microservice Architectures
  • Agile / Kanban Delivery Methodology