Who am I?
An enthusiastic hands-on Solution Architect and a full-stack software developer with many years of experience with AWS, Linux, Cloud, Containers, etc. I support OSS as much as I can, and I love ❤️ Linux. In 2025 I founded Yanovian LLC, and since them I'm operating from Yerevan, Armenia.
During my career, I have built highly scalable APIs, automated quality checks and deployment (CI/CD pipelines), and scalable, reliable, and secure systems on cloud ☁️ infrastructures, mainly AWS. I have worked as a freelancer, consultant, and employee for various companies, including small startups, scale-ups, and large enterprise corporations. IT security is one of my side habits.
I used to live in Denmark for over 8 years, where I could work for different companies and learn how different cultures work. I appreciated how Danes value punctuality and long-term planning. They often plan ahead for almost their next year, which I've integrated into my own life as a valuable practice. I also love the energy and joy of people in the south; For example amazing countries like Spain, Armenia, and Iran, where they share a lot of cultural values. I believe that by combining the best of both approaches, we can access new horizons. I then moved to Armenia to establish my company, Yanovian, and help Armenia and our region grow.
No one knows everything, so I am constantly learning from different sources and trying new things.
Fun facts about me:
- I am one of those lucky ones who could see the beauty of data centers.
- I have won a security CTF hackathon at work
- Sometimes I create memes; available on this page
- I'm a certified 10x code ninja developer! (just kidding)
Core professional skills
AWS services
Public speeches
What people say about me?
I had the pleasure to have Pooyan in my AWS cloud team at Adesso and he proved to be very knowledgable and capable in many areas of IT in general and AWS cloud and containers in particular. He is excellent at documenting his work and communicating with customers as well as with other team members.
Henrik - Head AWS Cloud, Security Officer & Site Manager @ adesso SE
I've worked with Pooyan on multiple AWS projects from modernizing legacy projects, orchestration, CI/CD process, branching/release strategies, test automation, security and monitoring. Together we added values to many businesses. He is very bright, loves knowledge sharing, a real DevSecOps guy and a pleasure to work with. Any project would be more productive and fun with him in it! ☁️
Tomz - Cloud Specialist @ adesso SE
I learnt a lot from Pooyan when it comes to setting up and working on development projects. He is a very knowledgeable engineer with great insight to technical details. He always approached the tasks with an open mind and put aside personal biases. His recommendations of using certain best practises for our AI system integration project were especially helpful and contributed significantly to our progress. I would work with him again without any hesitation.
Daniel - Machine Learning Engineer @ EasyTranslate
As tech lead at EasyTranslate, Pooyan has mastered the art of bridging tech and people. It goes without saying that he is extremely acknowledgeable in his field. As tech lead, however, being a tech genius is not sufficient, as you need to be able to lead with influence and to create a common vision with the team and aligned with the company and all stakeholders involved. While working with Pooyan, I was constantly amazed by the empathy he shows and by his skills in listening and understanding customers, users, and processes alike in order to achieve a common vision that came to life.
Anita - Global Head of Sales @ EasyTranslate
Personally owned projects
Other skills
Languages
My values and human rights
I believe in freedom of speech, equality, diversity, and inclusion, and I actively promote them. I think every human should have an equal opportunity to learn and be successful, no matter what color, race, gender, disability, religion, look, or country we are born in. I believe the only thing that can differentiate us is our actions. I also think people and every living being should be respected, but we should allow thoughts and beliefs to be openly challenged. 🕊️
I care about human rights and equality, and I fight against double standards and those barbaric colonizations. I think "double standards" is one of the main problems that we have in our modern world because those who could gain the power in the west are not honest with what they say vs what they do. They silence the voice of truth in the name of "protection" while they attack other nations and silence the voice of human rights. While they own media and use their propaganda machine to change the reality and narrative in their favor and justify their crimes while they suppress those who stand for human rights. I, together with those other ones who care about the future of human rights will not choose silence, no matter how many times they silence us and how they attack our reputation or how it affects our career.
At Yanovian (my company), we have more values too, including impact over optics, ownership and accountability, pragmatic excellence, always learning, simple by design, craftsmanship, better for everyone, and inclusion and fairness. You can read more about them at our careers page.
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