Amir Haghighat
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Co-founder
San Francisco, California, United States
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Co-founderBasetenSep 2019 - Current (7 years 1 month)- Engineering ManagerClover HealthJan 2016 - Feb 2019 (3 years 2 months)
- Head Of EngineeringGumroadSep 2012 - Oct 2015 (3 years 2 months)• Previously software engineer
• Helped Gumroad grow from a few features to a full suite of applications that help independent creators make a living by selling to their audiences to the tune of $100,000,000
• Led and grew the engineering team from 2 to 10 engineers - Software EngineerYelpApr 2011 - Sep 2012 (1 year 6 months)Developing Yelp's iPhone and iPad apps (Objective C), public and private API (Python), data analytics (MapReduce), and a few other things.
- Software EngineerPalmMay 2007 - Mar 2011 (3 years 11 months)• System UI Team: developed the WebOS window manager (C++/Qt)
• Emerging Technologies Group: designed and developed a battery power-optimized location-aware reminder system (C)
• Apps Team: developed the WebOS 1.0 messaging application, seamlessly integrating SMS, MMS, and IM into one app (Java and C) - Teaching AssistantUC IrvineSep 2005 - Dec 2006 (1 year 4 months)• Teaching Assistant for senior level undergraduate class titled “Project in Software System Design”
• The projects’ customers were among local technology companies, non-profit organizations, and UCI faculty
• Held weekly meetings with each group, analyzing their progress and assisting them with potential technical and analytical problems - Software Engineer InternComarco IncJun 2005 - Apr 2007 (1 year 11 months)• Contributed to the design and development of Comarco’s flagship product, a quality-of-service monitoring system for cellular networks
• Designed and developed the Land Unit module for voice-call testing, using C#, .NET and Windows Forms
• Designed and developed a .NET Compact Framework application for displaying real-time cell network parameters and measurements on the device
• Launched the design and development of SIM-based wireless testing solution, using Java Card, SIM Toolkit, and .NET Compact Framework - Research AssistantUC IrvineSep 2004 - Dec 2006 (2 years 4 months)Conducted research and development on a number of mobile computing projects, including:
• Designed and developed a positioning system based on audible sound
• The server software was written in C and the client software was written in C# and ran on Windows Mobile smartphones
• Designed and developed an application with an embedded web browser that supports location-awareness in conjunction with the positioning system - Software Engineer InternMindFire IncJul 2002 - Jan 2003 (7 months)
- SSoftware EngineerSideshowJun 2000 - Jul 2001 (1 year 2 months)
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- Master of Science, Computer ScienceUC IrvineJan 2004 - Jan 2006 (2 years 1 month)PhD ABD
Publications:
• Cristina Lopes, Amir Haghighat, Atri Mandal, Tony Givargis, Pierre Baldi, “Localization of Off-the-Shelf Mobile Devices Using Audible Sound: Architectures, Protocols and Performance Assessment”, ACM SIGMOBILE MC2R Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2006
• Atri Mandal, Cristina Lopes, Tony Givargis, Amir Haghighat, Raja Jurdak, Pierre Baldi, “Beep: 3D Indoor Positioning Using Audible Sound”, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2005
• Amir Haghighat, Cristina Lopes, Tony Givargis, Atri Mandal, “Location-Aware Web System”, Workshop on Building Software for Pervasive Computing, ACM OOPSLA, Vancouver, Canada, October 2004 - Bachelor of Science, Computer ScienceUC IrvineJan 2001 - Jan 2004 (3 years 1 month)