Ashot Pahlevanyan — Curriculum Vitae

Profile

Serial entrepreneur and founder of VParking, Anjoy and Mekena, combining hands-on software engineering with product and development leadership. 15+ years of extensive industry experience across web, desktop and mobile applications, a Top-Rated freelance track record, and a PhD in Mathematics. Detail-oriented and analytical, with strong communication and a bias toward shipping quality products.

Contacts

Email

ashotpahlevanyan@gmail.com

Website

ashot.pahlevanyan.org

Ashot Pahlevanyan

GitHub

github.com/ashotpahlevanyan

Location

Yerevan, Armenia

Ventures

2026 — present

Co-founder, VParking

Automated vertical-lift parking systems that multiply capacity up to 3× on a single footprint — seismic-ready, EV-charging optional. Product, engineering and go-to-market.

2026 — present

Co-founder, Anjoy

Immersive yoga and meditation retreats at curated locations worldwide — intimate groups, complete experiential arcs. Product, brand and operations.

2026 — present

Founder, Mekena

Fleet-management SaaS (app.mekena.org) for taxi dispatch businesses — driver payments, debts, vehicle documents, maintenance and per-vehicle P&L in one dashboard. Product, engineering and go-to-market.

Work Experience

Mar 2021 — present

Staff Software Engineer, WillowTree (acquired Maark), a TELUS Digital Company

Stack: React, Redux, Adobe Experience Manager

Jun 2018 — Jan 2021

Software Development Manager, Cattlesoft Inc

Web and mobile application development management.

Jun 2020 — Sep 2020

Senior Electron & React Engineer, Doxel Inc.

Development of Doxel's DxUploader desktop application using Electron, React & Redux.

Aug 2020 — Sep 2020

Senior React & TypeScript Developer, WorldLobby

Development of WorldLobby's new website.

Jul 2020 — Aug 2020

Senior React Developer, Vivant Inc.

Vivant's Composer application and custom components for the Live Session application.

May 2020 — Jun 2020

Senior React & GraphQL Developer, Topoleg Inc.

Development of the Topoleg platform.

Dec 2019 — Jun 2020

Senior Front-End Developer, Cattlesoft Inc · CattleTags

Development of company web applications.

Jul 2018 — Feb 2020

Senior Front-End Developer, Cattlesoft Inc · CattleMax

Development of company web applications.

Oct 2018 — Aug 2019

Senior Electron & React Developer, Cattlesoft Inc · TagMax Desktop

Desktop applications with Electron, React, Node.js and Bluetooth.

May 2019 — Oct 2019

Senior React Developer, Flexxible IT · Apps2Digital

Development of the Apps2Digital.com platform.

Feb 2019 — Mar 2019

Senior Front-End Developer, Cattlesoft Inc · CattleScales

Development of company web applications.

Jun 2018 — Aug 2018

Senior Front-End Developer, Das Koncept Design Agency

Development of the company website.

Jul 2017 — Jun 2018

Senior Front-End Engineer, Freelance / Contract

Stack: React / Redux / Flux / jQuery / HTML5 / CSS3 / SASS / LESS / Bootstrap / Semantic-UI / Responsive Design / OOCSS / SMACSS / Atomic Design

Sep 2015 — Jul 2017

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, goPanache

QA & analysis of web and mobile applications. Trello, Pivotal Tracker, Heroku.

Feb 2016 — Jun 2017

Senior Front-End Developer, Revenviews LTD

UX & UI development — HTML5 / CSS3 / Bootstrap / SASS / LESS / OOCSS.

Sep 2013 — Feb 2016

Senior Front-End Developer, Freelance / Contract

Stack: HTML5 / CSS3 / Bootstrap / Responsive Design / jQuery / OOCSS / SMACSS / SASS / LESS

Oct 2015 — Dec 2016

Senior Front-End Developer, Cattlesoft Inc.

Tackling the hardest parts of the CattleMax software UI & UX. WordPress, HTML5 / CSS3 / Bootstrap / jQuery.

Nov 2014 — Dec 2015

Bioinformatician & Systems Administrator, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Sweden

Research on drug dependence & molecular neuropsychopharmacology. R / Bioconductor / Python / Statistics.

R/Bioconductor programming
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA)
Genetics database extraction & public database APIs
Statistical analysis of genetic data
Ubuntu server administration & maintenance
Automatic processing of CellProfiler output data

Mar 2014 — Apr 2014

Software Developer & System Administrator, (ICT) Literacy Test in Armenia

Joint project of ATC Armenia and the World Bank. Data processing, examination organization, Perl, system administration.

Jul 2013 — Nov 2014

Research Scientist, Dept. of Mathematics & Mechanics, Yerevan State University

Grant: “Groups with periodic defining relations. Embeddings and Automorphisms.”

Feb 2012 — Jul 2013

Software Quality Assurance Engineer, LTX-Credence Corporation

Test automation, GUI automation — Perl, Win32::GuiTest, manual & regression testing, test-matrix creation.

May 2011 — Jun 2012

Research Scientist, Dept. of Mathematics & Mechanics, Yerevan State University

Grant: “Systems defined by identities and hyper-identities.”

Sep 2008 — Dec 2011

R&D Engineer, Yerevan Computer Research Development Institute

C++, C#, Microsoft SQL, 2D / 3D game programming, automation.

Sep 2008 — Jul 2011

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Mathematics & Mechanics, Yerevan State University

Algebra I & II, Group Theory I & II, General Mathematics.

Sep 2004 — Mar 2005

R&D Intern, Yerevan Computer Research Development Institute

C++, Assembly development.

Education

2011

PhD, Dept. of Mathematics & Mechanics, Yerevan State University

Thesis: “On monomorphisms and automorphisms of free periodic groups.”

Supervisor: Varuzhan Atabekyan

2008

MSc in Mathematics (honors), Yerevan State University

Thesis: “Embedding of absolutely free groups into groups B(m,n,1).”

2006

BSc/MSc in Mathematics (honors), Yerevan State University

Thesis: “On hyperbolic groups.”

Tech Stack

Back-end

Node.js / ES2015+ / Express
MySQL / MongoDB / PostgreSQL
Objection.js / Knex.js / Sequelize / Mongoose
REST API design / GraphQL
Postman / Heroku · apiDoc / Swagger / JSDoc

Front-end

JavaScript / TypeScript / ESNext
React / Redux / Redux-Saga / Reselect / Jest / Enzyme
Electron — macOS, Windows & Linux
HTML5 / Bootstrap / Material UI / Semantic UI
CSS3 / SASS / LESS / OOCSS / SMACSS / Styled Components
Responsive & cross-browser / cross-device

Quality Assurance

TDD / BDD
Jasmine / Mocha / Chai / Karma / Jest / Enzyme
Web & mobile application testing
Perl GUI testing / test automation / test matrices

Product & Project Management

Managing small teams
Trello / Asana / Jira / Pivotal Tracker / MS Project
Spec & documentation development
Top-level customer communication

Build & Version Control

Webpack / Grunt / Gulp / Bower
Vagrant / containers
Git / GitHub / Bitbucket / GitLab

Other Technologies

R / Bioconductor — data analysis, genetics
C++11, STL, QT4, MFC
Java — J2SE, J2EE, Tomcat, Tesseract-OCR
Perl, Python, C# (.NET), MATLAB, LabView
LaTeX — scientific publishing

Languages

English (fluent) · Russian (fluent) · Armenian (native)

Trainings & Certifications

Applied Machine Learning — SmartGateML

Jun–Oct 2018

Intro to Machine Learning — SmartGateML

Apr–May 2018

Data Science Workshop — American University of Armenia

May 2017

Statistics & R for the Life Sciences — HarvardX

Aug 2015

Parallel Computing on Param supercomputer / GROMACS — AITC

Dec 2013–Feb 2014

Project Management — AITC

Jul–Sep 2013

Java for Web Developers, Levels 1–3 — AITC

2012–2013

High Performance / Multi-core Computing — AITC

2012

Linux & Android OS Programming — AITC

2012

LabView Programming, DAC 1 & 2 — National Instruments Armenia

Sep–Dec 2011

Self-Paced Courses

Building Applications with React & Redux in ES6 — Pluralsight
Building Applications with React & Flux — Pluralsight
Server-Side Rendering with React & Redux — Udemy
Advanced React & Redux — Udemy
Design & Analysis of Algorithms — MIT OpenCourseWare
Data Structures — UC Berkeley

C++11 — B. Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language (4th ed.)
STL — N. M. Josuttis, The C++ Standard Library
Bioinformatics — R/Bioconductor programming
Genetics — Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
Python programming
MATLAB programming

Conferences & Meetups

May 2017

Data Science Workshop, American University of Armenia

Nov 2016

#Uppstart Tech Meetup, Uppsala, Sweden

Nov 2016

HandsOn Startup Tour 2016, Stockholm, Sweden

Nov 2015

#Uppstart Tech Meetup, Uppsala — 1st prize, IBM Bluemix programming competition

Scholarships & Prizes

2007, 2008, 2010

One-year scholarship (×3), “Research Mathematics” foundation, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

2008

Best Young Researcher Award, “Vardanank” foundation

Selected Publications

2011

The Fibonacci automorphism of free Burnside groups

A. S. Pahlevanyan — RAIRO – Theoretical Informatics and Applications, Vol. 45:3, pp. 301–309.

2013

On normal automorphisms of n-periodic products of finite cyclic groups

V. Atabekyan, A. Gevorgyan, A. Khachatryan, A. Pahlevanyan — International Journal of Group Theory, Vol. 2:3, pp. 39–47.

2011

On automorphisms and embeddings of free periodic groups

A. S. Pahlevanyan, H. R. Rostami — Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Analysis, Vol. 46:2, pp. 106–112.

Hobbies & Interests

Hiking, travelling, canyoning, snorkelling, swimming (2nd prize, Youth Armenian Water Polo Championship), classical music, jazz, playing piano, accordion and harmonica, ballroom and Latin dances.