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Michel Georges Najarian

Montréal, QC

Michel Georges Najarian

Full-Stack Software Engineer

I build customer-facing web platforms and the services behind them. Currently at Arctic Wolf.

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About

Full-stack software engineer with 5+ years building customer-facing web platforms and the backend services behind them in React, Angular, TypeScript and Go. At Arctic Wolf I redesigned the core threat-investigation workflows in the portal used by 10,000+ organizations and am helping launch its replacement, Aurora. Before that I grew from Frontend Developer to Lead Developer at Nintex, building recruiting software integrated with Workday, Taleo and PeopleSoft.

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Go
  • PHP
  • C
  • HTML
  • CSS

Frontend

  • React
  • Angular
  • MUI
  • Bootstrap
  • Vite
  • Nx monorepos
  • Component libraries
  • Playwright
  • React Testing Library
  • ESLint

Backend & data

  • Node.js (Koa)
  • REST and SOAP APIs
  • Microservices
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • DynamoDB
  • GORM
  • Hibernate

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS (Lambda, Cognito, API Gateway, DynamoDB)
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Snyk
  • Git

Education

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

    MS, Computer Science (part-time)

    Starting Jan 2027

  • University of Waterloo

    BASc, Computer Engineering

    Honours, Co-operative Program, Graduated with Distinction

    2016 – 2022

Experience

  1. Arctic Wolf

    Security operations platform protecting 10,000+ organizations · Waterloo, ON (remote)

    • Developer IISep 2024 – Present
    • Redesigned the Tickets, Security Investigations and Custom Alerts pages of the customer portal used by 10,000+ organizations.
    • Rebuilt the alert investigation view and cut urgent production pages to on-call engineers by 70%+, from 5–8 per week to 2 or fewer.
    • Security Champion: fixed 300+ high and critical dependency vulnerabilities and raised test coverage from ~80% to 98% with Playwright component tests.
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Go
    • MUI
    • Nx
    • Playwright
    • Snyk

  2. Nintex

    Recruiting software, via the acquisitions of Inflight and Skuid · Kitchener, ON (remote)

    • Lead Software DeveloperNov 2022 – Sep 2024
    • Frontend DeveloperJan 2021 – Nov 2022
    • Led an Angular job application app connected to employers’ HR systems (Workday, Taleo), used by 20+ large employers to process 10,000+ applications a month.
    • Built a mobile-friendly Angular front end over PeopleSoft’s dated hiring pages, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA, plus serverless AWS backends (Cognito, Lambda, DynamoDB).
    • Promoted to Lead in under 2 years and mentored 4 junior developers.
    • Angular
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js (Koa)
    • AWS Lambda
    • Cognito
    • DynamoDB
Earlier experience

  • International Financial Data Services (IFDS) · Architecture R&D Full-Stack Developer (internship)

    Toronto, ON · Sep 2019 – Dec 2019

    • Built proofs of concept with Angular, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL running in Kubernetes containers.
    • Designed and built the backend, RESTful APIs and web portal, including the database structure and change auditing.
    • Presented the finished proofs of concept to stakeholders and clients.

    Angular · Spring Boot · PostgreSQL · Kubernetes

  • Government of Canada, Health Canada · Software Developer

    Ottawa, ON · Jan 2019 – Apr 2019

    • Converted MATLAB code to C++ and wrote Fortran simulators and analyzers for radiation and cosmic-ray data.
    • Built a user interface for choosing simulation parameters.

    C++ · MATLAB · Fortran

  • SITAONAIR · Full Stack Developer, OSS/BSS team (2 internships)

    Montréal, QC · May 2017 – Dec 2017 · May 2018 – Aug 2018

    • Refactored a PHP web service backend, cutting processing time by 50%, and fixed SQL injection vulnerabilities with prepared statements.
    • Updated an old web app with JavaScript and jQuery, decreasing load times by 70%, and built a modern UI with Bootstrap.

    PHP · JavaScript · jQuery · Bootstrap · SQL

Projects

  • This website
    My personal site: a statically exported Next.js app with shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS, deployed to GitHub Pages with a preview of the latest changes.
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Tailwind CSS
    • shadcn/ui
    Source
  • OneRing: Fitness Tracking Smart Ring
    Our University of Waterloo ECE capstone: a smart ring that monitors biometrics and sends readings over Bluetooth Low Energy to a phone. I led the React Native app (Redux, native Bluetooth module) and built the AWS backend for accounts and data storage.
    • C
    • BLE
    • React Native
    • Redux
    • AWS
    Watch demo
  • BeautifyTvShowDirectory
    Recursively renames the episode files in a TV series folder into clean show and season folders, matching them against The Movie Database (TMDb) API.
    • Java
    • Maven
    • TMDb API
    Source
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Latest writing

  • · 8 min read

    How a Next.js site runs on GitHub Pages

    GitHub Pages only serves static files, so how does a Next.js site end up there? A short tour of client rendering, server rendering and static generation, using this website as the example.

    • nextjs
    • github-pages
    • meta

  • · 4 min read

    Conflicted about using AI

    I want to be proud of what I build, but I couldn't have built this site in a day without Claude. Here's how I'm making peace with that.

    • ai
    • claude
    • career
    • opinion
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Let’s talk

I’m always happy to chat about new roles, projects, or a good engineering problem.

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