Hey everyone, my name is Arya. I’m a software engineer currently working for Amazon based in Los Angeles. I am working with Amazon Studios to create software to inform decisions about when to release shows.
Previously I was a software engineer at Oscar Health. I was on the communications infrastructure team (internally known as the HyperChannel team), working with really awesome people to bring health insurance to the present, specifically in regards to communications software. I worked with my team to build and maintain full-stack services related to video chatting, designing and sending emails, designing and sending snail-mail, and configuring documents with complex logic. I am probably most proud of creating software that people today use to get $0 virtual primary care, but I am also proud of the dead-name alerts I created to alert teams when their emails were sending emails with members legal name instead of preferred name.
Previous to that, I was a software engineer @ Google, working on the YouTube Web Embedded Player (like the one below):
I’m from Los Angeles, born to two Iranian Jewish immigrants. My fascination with computers started at a young age, and I wanted to learn programming when I saw people making programs to play the game Runescape, but I actually started learning programming in 11th grade, when I took a math class with a teacher who taught the concepts using Python. This class started my fascination with programming, and I was immediately hooked, doing problems on CodingBat and Project Euler instead of the homework I was supposed to. I continued on to Brandeis University where I did a double major in computer science and music.
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