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Sar Perlman

Director of Engineering specializing in AI/ML products and cloud data platforms

Within3Florida Atlantic UniversitySan Diego, CA15 Years ExperienceDirector LevelWorks On-Site

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Hands-on engineering leader who has scaled teams quickly (hired 20 engineers in 4 months) and led major architecture shifts including monolith-to-microservices and serverless, async AI-driven medical data ingestion/search. Also drove a versioned-inventory redesign with auditability and rollback that reduced operational errors by 22%, and demonstrates strong incident response with clear stakeholder communication.

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Key Strengths

  • Hands-on technical leadership (builds POCs and core logic while leading)
  • Led monolith-to-microservices transition via architecture decisions and POCs (AI analysis API, AWS Lambda pipeline)
  • Strong incident leadership balancing technical triage with cross-functional customer messaging
  • Defined and executed roadmap for AI-driven medical data ingestion and search (serverless + async queue + Postgres)
  • Scaled org rapidly: hired 20 full-stack/DevOps/data engineers in 4 months
  • Established effective team structure and execution processes (feature/platform/DevOps, PR review within 24 hours, faster CI/CD)
  • Delivered measurable operational impact: dynamically versioned inventory reduced operational errors by 22%

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Experience

Director of Engineering (Hands-on)Within3 · Dec 2021 – Present
Director of Engineering (Hands-on)Yembo · Jan 2021 – Dec 2021
Engineering ManagerImperfect Foods · Sep 2019 – Jan 2021
Engineering Manager & Team LeadDataStax · May 2015 – Sep 2019
Software EngineerNANOG · Jan 2011 – Apr 2015

Education

Florida Atlantic Universitybachelor, Computer Science

Skills

Agentic AIAPI GatewayAWSBudget ManagementCI/CDComputer VisionCross-functional CollaborationData EngineeringDevOpsDistributed SystemsETLEmbeddingsEvent-Driven ArchitectureFull-Stack DevelopmentGraphQL

Languages

English

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Sar PerlmanDirector of Engineering specializing in AI/ML products and cloud data platforms