Nima Khoshini

• —Led the UI, Platform Services, and Performance Engineering teams supporting Voltron Data's flagship product, Theseus.
• —Championed cross-team collaboration to integrate advanced query execution features into the Theseus UI.
• —Mentored engineers into leadership roles and spearheaded company-wide documentation and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• —Led the development of Voltron Data's first end-user–facing service, Theseus Test Drive.
• —Delivered product demonstrations to clients, highlighting key features and value propositions.
• —Partnered with the Theseus Engine team to design and orchestrate Python UDFs for complex, GPU-intensive workflows, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.

• —Supported successful seed-round fundraising, resulting in $8 million raised.
• —Provided technical leadership for server-side development, managing a team of web and backend engineers.
• —Managed backend engineering and DevOps utilizing AWS and GCP with Terraform, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD.
• —Recruited and scaled multidisciplinary teams across engineering and community operations.

• —Migrated GIPHY microservices from REST to gRPC, achieving a 10× reduction in CPU usage.
• —Led Kubernetes adoption for containerized deployments, reducing EC2 usage and improving fault tolerance.
• —Developed shared components for OpenTracing adoption into GIPHY microservices to uncover latency issues.
• —Designed GIPHY's ML pipeline for content safety, celebrity detection, and GIF annotation.
• —Migrated legacy databases to DynamoDB, featured in AWS Startup Blog, and highlighted by Werner Vogels.

• —Co-founded and led engineering for Imoji, acquired by GIPHY in 2016.
• —Built open-source SDKs for Android and iOS; integrated into 300+ apps, including Dubsmash and Fleksy.
• —Grew team to five developers and a product manager; fostered collaborative culture through demos and learning sessions.
• —Imoji was featured in The Today Show.
• —GIPHY acquired Imoji in 2017. ↗

• —Architected core Siri functions including messaging, reminders, and sports.
• —Built performant, thread-safe JNI bridges for Siri's natural language processing framework.

• —Developed cross-platform UI infrastructure for Siri's iPhone app using Java, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• —Siri was acquired by Apple in 2010 ↗

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