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Mike Khorrami - Senior Manager, Engineering in Woodland Hills, CA

Mike Khorrami

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and cloud-native platforms

BlackLineCalifornia State University, NorthridgeWoodland Hills, CA25 Years ExperienceDirector LevelWorks On-Site

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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.

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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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Experience

Senior Manager, EngineeringBlackline Inc. · Oct 2021 – Dec 2025
Application Development ManagerCetera Financial Group · Jan 2019 – Aug 2021
Director, Software and Database EngineeringPerformance Designed Products (PDP Inc.) · Nov 2015 – Nov 2018
Manager, Information Technology DevelopmentFirst American Financial Corporation · Apr 2006 – Jul 2015
Director of New InitiativesMove, Inc. · Dec 2000 – Feb 2006

Education

California State University, Northridgemaster, Business Administration (2005)
California State University, Northridgebachelor, Management Information Systems (MIS) (2000)

Languages

English

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Mike KhorramiDirector-level Engineering Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and cloud-native platforms