Ruben Hakopian

ruben.hakopian@gmail.com
github.com/rubenhak
linkedin.com/in/rubenhak
resume.rubenhak.com
(408) 306-3410
San Francisco Bay Area
Software architect/engineer with over 20 years of experience building GenAI solutions, next-gen products, and distributed systems in startups and large enterprises, utilizing the latest technologies from the open-source, cloud-native, and AI/ML stacks.

Specialties

GenAI
SaaS
PaaS
Scalable distributed systems
Microservices
Self-healing management systems
Model, data and meta driven systems
Policy & intent based systems
Rules engines
Eventual consistency
Multithreading
Code generating robots
Kubernetes
Cloud-Native

Experience

VMware / Broadcom
Dev Lead / Architect
Jul, 2023 - Present
Led the GenAI Intelligent Assistant for VMware vDefend Lateral Security (Project Cypress) from inception, POC, TechPreview to GA. https://youtu.be/651...
  • Started at VMware OCTO, AI xLabs to lead the Security AI Assistant project.
  • Designed and built an interactive chat-bot using RAG (retrieval augmented generation).
  • Designed and implemented a multi-tenant SaaS architecture, ensuring scalability and robustness.
  • Coordinated effectively across engineering, product, and marketing teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery.
  • Managed and oversaw all engineering activities to meet project goals and deadlines.
  • Built standardized frameworks and tools to boost overall team productivity.
  • Transitioned between OpenAI and GCP Vertex AI Gemini LLMs, AWS and GCP.
  • Built CI and GitOps CD pipelines and onboarded through CloudOps processes.
Used: Python, LangChain, Vertex AI Gemini, OpenAI, GCP, PostgreSQL, PGVector, RabbitMQ, AWS, ArgoCD
Kubevious
Founder
Oct, 2019 - Jun, 2024
Created Kubevious - an open-core SaaS that helps running modern Kubernetes applications without disasters and costly outages by detecting and preventing configuration errors and violations of best practices. https://github.com/kubevious/kubevious
  • Started the project, launched the company, and built the team
  • Discovered and validated the product need
  • Designed and implemented SaaS microservice applications
  • Created a programmable rules engine and public library which keeps misconfigurations and violations of cloud-native best practices away from Kubernetes clusters and apps
  • Build four products based on the common application framework: SaaS, open-source, portable, and CLI
  • Open-source project collected ⭐ 1,600 stars on GitHub and 📥 591K downloads
Used: Node.js, TypeScript, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Docker, ReactJS, CNCF projects
Berlioz
Chief Scientist
Jan, 2017 - Oct, 2019
  • Created Berlioz - A robotized SRE to achieve a PaaS-like experience within your own public cloud account. Enables teams to deploy microservices in a secure environment rapidly. https://github.com/berlioz-the/berlioz
  • Designed a cloud-agnostic declarative DSL to describe microservices dependencies between each other and other managed cloud services such as SQL, Object Storage, Message Brokers, etc.
  • Implemented continuous synchronization of desired microservices state to AWS or GCP.
  • Achieved sub-5-minute Hipster Microservices Demo application deployment to a brand new AWS (or GCP) account.
    Used: Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Go, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Docker, ReactJS, CNCF projects
  • Fun project - Quantitative trading algo bot. Trading daily since 2017.
    Used: C#, .NET, AWS, Lambda, InteractiveBrokers APIs
Cisco / Insieme Networks (acquired)
MTS
Jul, 2012 - Jan, 2017
Joined the early team of Insieme Networks to build Cisco ACI - application centric SDN solution. https://newsroom.cis...
  • Owned, designed, and implemented the observability platform.
  • Created data collection framework, processing, and analysis infrastructure.
  • The entire org uses that framework to report metrics.
  • Created Troubleshooting Wizard - a friendly tool to identify and repair connectivity issues with L4-L7 services.
  • Created service to Cisco ACI network policy extension and enforcement to the public cloud. Patented.
Used: C++v11, Python, Java, SQLite, STL, Boost, D3.js, Cisco ACI APIs, Modeling+CodeGeneration
Harmonic
Staff Software Engineer
Jun, 2009 - Jul, 2012
Specializes in the development of video delivery infrastructure for television and video services.
  • Worked on video network management system
  • Designed and implemented rules, language, and interpretation engine
Used: Windows, C#, .NET 3.5, WPF
Mattson Technology
Software Consultant
Jun, 2008 - May, 2009
Company designs and manufactures semiconductor wafer processing equipment.
  • Built next generation controller and UI for wafer processing equipment.
Used: Windows, C#, .NET 3.5, WPF, C++, TCP, Modeling+CodeGeneration
Memco
Software Engineer
Jan, 2005 - Dec, 2007
Company specializes in 3D graphics and visualization.
  • Virtual Reality Area - distributed system for online 3D interaction application like Second Life
    Used: Windows, C#, .NET 3.0, WPF, MS SQL, TCP/UDP
  • Bipedal 3D Character Studio
    Used: C++, STL, OpenGL, GLSL
  • 3D Rendering Algorithms.
    Used: Paper, Pencil, Imagination, C++, OpenGL, GLSL
Unified Software
Software Engineer
Oct, 2003 - Jan, 2005
IKAR - solution for taxi fleet management
Used: Windows, C#, .NET 2.0, .NET Remoting, MS SQL, Borland Delphi
Freelance
Oct, 2001 - Oct, 2003
Implemented projects in a team of 3
  • Store inventory management and POS terminal
    Used: C#, .NET 1.1, MS SQL
  • Online gaming portal. Supported Chess & Backgammon
    Used: Linux, Java, JSP, Java Applet
  • Windows based card games: Blackjack, Poker
    Used: C++, Win32, GDI+, COM, Visual Studio 6.0, Borland Delphi

Skills

Languages
Python
TypeScript
Java
C#
C++ v11
Go
Web
JavaScript
React
jQuery
HTML
CSS
WebSocket
Frameworks
FastAPI
Node.js
Express.js
.NET (up to 4.5)
STL
Boost
AI
GCP VertexAI Gemini
OpenAI
LangChain
RAG
Cloud
GCP
AWS
Runtimes
Kubernetes
Docker
Serverless
OpenShift
CNCF Stack
Traefik
Kong
Istio
Calico
CertManager
Relational
PostgreSQL
MySQL
SQLite
MS SQL
NoSQL
Redis
MongoDB
Cassandra
Brokers
RabbitMQ
Kafka
AWS
DynamoDB
Aurora
RDS
S3
Kinesis
SQS
Lambda
EKS
GCP
GKE
Functions
Pub/Sub
Storage
SQL
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
GitLab
CodeFresh
TravisCI
CircleCI
OS
Linux
MacOS
Windows

Education

Stanford University
Enterprise Sales & Marketing
Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems, Armenia
Ph.D., Computer Science
  • Researched algorithms of interpretation of strongly typed functional programming languages.
  • Developed a universal system of interpretation.
Yerevan State University, Faculty of Informatics and Applied Mathematics
M.S., Computer Science
Yerevan State University, Faculty of Informatics and Applied Mathematics
B.S., Computer Science