Amin Ariana

Recruited as Distinguished Engineer to architect the modernization of a two-decade legacy platform; promoted to Senior Director within 10 months on first-year cost reduction. Accountable for the largest area under engineering: seven platform teams across US and European centers, reporting to the executive leadership team.

Drove the platform levers behind the company's move from stand-still toward Rule of 40 growth: structural cost reduction, reliability gains that lifted revenue retention, and the architecture behind FedRAMP certification, now live in the marketplace and opening US public sector. Opened the platform to agentic product flows through MCP servers and APIs on a shared AI foundation. Adopted AI across engineering, flattening the org as agents absorbed process work.

Tapped by the Founder CEO to architect Brex Empower, the platform that moved the company upmarket from SMB to Enterprise. Shipped in six months against a two-year internal estimate; as founding tech lead and product platform manager, set scope across 6 departments, building the foundation that landed DoorDash as first Enterprise customer during $1B to $12.3B valuation growth.

Delivered the transition by migrating 40 engineering teams' SMB-built services onto the enterprise platform, releasing 20% more companywide engineering capacity.

Co-founded and owned all software engineering, building the IoT platform behind a patented Wi-Fi camera-lock for Airbnb check-in and last-mile delivery. Raised $20M across three rounds, co-presenting to the board; aligned hardware, firmware and product to mass-produce and ship into US households. Forbes: "World's Most Sophisticated Lock."