Farzad Jahandar, Software Engineer at AWS
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services in San Francisco. Builds
distributed backend systems and multi-account services processing
10M+ events/day, including PII tokenization platforms, fault-tolerant
orchestration services, and IaC providers operating at millions of daily
stack operations.
Background
- Cloud Application Architect, Amazon Web Services (Oct 2025 – Present).
- Associate Cloud Application Developer, AWS (Jan 2023 – Sep 2025).
- Professional Services Intern, AWS (Jun 2022 – Sep 2022).
- Software Engineer Co-op, Doble Engineering (Jan 2022 – Jun 2022).
- M.S. Computer Science, Northeastern University, 2022.
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2019.
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, 2015.
- Speaks English, Farsi, Italian, Turkish, Azerbaijani.
Selected Work
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Multi-region PII tokenization platform with sub-200ms p99 latency,
adopted by 13 microservices across 5 AWS accounts. Envelope encryption
(AES-256-GCM), 2-layer authorization, private API exposed only over
VPC endpoints.
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Async credit and fraud orchestration service using Step Functions for
parallel bureau execution with exponential backoff retries,
partial-failure handling, and a config-driven mock-to-real vendor swap
path. Zero PII at rest.
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Java-based CloudFormation resource types (IaC providers) supporting
6M+ daily stack operations with 90%+ adoption and zero critical
production defects.
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Event-driven backend services processing 10M+ messages/day with 99.9%
uptime and sub-200ms p99 latency. Reduced MTTR by 30% via custom
observability.
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Multi-agent GenAI platform (Bedrock, Strands SDK, MCP) coordinating
specialized agents for infrastructure monitoring, security analysis,
and cost optimization across 42+ cloud resource types.
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Migration and modernization of 5 legacy enterprise applications under
a seven-figure fixed-price engagement, ahead of schedule with zero
critical defects and no disruption to 5,000 end users.
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