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Mike Khorrami
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and cloud-native platforms
Woodland Hills, CASenior Manager, Engineering25 years experienceDirectorEnterprise SoftwareSaaSFinTech
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Engineering leader/player-coach who modernized a legacy C#/SQL Server system to Snowflake + Python on GCP, enabling ~30x scale and supporting hundreds of millions of transactions per day per customer. Strong in architecture tradeoffs (Snowflake vs Databricks), production reliability (New Relic, logging/alerting), and lightweight process improvements like a rigorous Definition of Done and structured PR reviews.
Experience
Senior Manager, EngineeringBlackline Inc.
Application Development ManagerCetera Financial Group
Director, Software and Database EngineeringPerformance Designed Products (PDP Inc.)
Manager, Information Technology DevelopmentFirst American Financial Corporation
Director of New InitiativesMove, Inc.
Education
California State University, Northridgemaster, Business Administration (2005)
California State University, Northridgebachelor, Management Information Systems (MIS) (2000)
Key Strengths
- Led legacy modernization from C#/SQL Server to Snowflake + Python on GCP
- Drove platform scaling ~30x to support hundreds of millions of transactions/day per customer
- Evaluated and selected data platform (Snowflake vs Databricks vs SQL Server replicas) with cost focus
- Established rigorous PR review process (3 approvals per PR)
- Resolved intermittent SQL Server timeouts via ingestion retry/requeue with progressive backoff
- Owned production reliability improvements using New Relic monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Optimized architecture by pushing simple rules into SQL to reduce large dataset transfers to app layer
- Player-coach leadership: heavy people management with ongoing technical depth via design/arch reviews and pairing
- Implemented clear Definition of Done (tests, logging/metrics, edge cases, rollback) to improve quality and sprint velocity
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