resume
Milad Farazian
Full-stack software engineer with AI depth: built Parkzy, a live peer-to-peer parking marketplace (App Store, 5.0★, 1,000+ downloads), end to end as sole engineer — payments, AWS infrastructure, production LLM features. Ex-Walmart SWE II; USC M.S. in Computer Science (AI).
Experience
ParkzyCo-founder & CTO
Los Angeles · Sep 2025 – Present- Built Parkzy from zero to a live App Store product (5.0★, 1,000+ downloads) as sole engineer — React 18/TypeScript/Supabase across web and iOS via Capacitor, 392 SQL migrations, 163 serverless edge functions, 3,600+ commits in 10 months
- Designed the core real-time “ping” matching system — one tap alerts every nearby host, built for sub-60-second accepts — with Mapbox GL geospatial search, dynamic pricing, and Stripe Connect + Stripe Identity payments and ID verification
- Maintained production quality solo: Playwright E2E, Vitest, and Deno test suites in CI, Sentry error tracking, and PostHog product analytics
StudyBuddyCo-founder & CTO
Los Angeles · Dec 2024 – Aug 2025- Led a 5-person team building a tutoring platform for USC students with scheduling and user profiles (React/TypeScript + Supabase/Postgres)
- Shipped the platform end to end — 394 TypeScript source files, 86 SQL migrations, and 39 serverless edge functions
WalmartSoftware Engineer II (Full-Stack)
Sunnyvale · Feb 2022 – May 2023- Built 10+ features for Converse Self Serve, tooling for Walmart's Dialogflow-based conversational-AI platform behind 66M+ AI-assisted customer contacts, alongside the NLP team
- Integrated push notification API into Last Mile Delivery servers — 4,700 stores reaching 90% of the US — on a 4-person US–India team
- Migrated 32 config features and 50+ testing tools from Cortex to Botmock, Walmart's newly acquired Self Serve platform
WalmartSoftware Engineer Intern
Sunnyvale · Jun 2021 – Aug 2021- Prototyped a Node.js CLI for Cortex (3 proof-of-concepts); built a CSAT feedback system that collected 6M+ customer ratings by Mar 2022
Projects
Gosan →Native macOS DAW with an AI taste engine — ~11,300 LOC in ~10 days. Swift, SwiftUI, AVAudioEngine.
Mehdi →Plaid-linked financial assistant — a deterministic engine computes every number; the LLM explains only code-verified facts.
Lincoln →Swipe-based job search — TF-IDF + logistic regression recommender retraining every 20 swipes, plus Claude resume tailoring.
Education
University of Southern CaliforniaM.S. Computer Science — Artificial Intelligence
Los Angeles · Aug 2023 – May 2025- Coursework: Applied Natural Language Processing, Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
UC Santa CruzB.S. Computer Science, Minor in Economics
Santa Cruz · Sep 2018 – Dec 2021- GPA 3.74 · CruzHacks awards: Secret Prize 2021 — Wildest Idea (Canvas Year in Review) · Best Use of Google Cloud Platform
- Solution Challenge Coordinator for Google's Developer Student Club