Hi there, my name is

Gabriel Arkanum

I'm full-stack software engineer building products people love
I'm a Georgia Tech grad and a product guy who loves building products and tools that empower people. I'm an engineer first, but have solid design chops and can build a product from idea to launch. I've worked with the federal government to modernize systems that impact million's of lives a year. And have been a 1st 10 employee at two startups with 1 exit so far.

In my spare time, I love to hike and spend time outdoors, watch sports (I'm a big St. Louis Cardinals & Atlanta Falcons fan) and build with LEGOs.

My Work

A sample of my professional work experience
May 2023 - Present
Senior Software Engineer | Simplr

At Simplr, I design and develop features as part of our automation and applied AI initiatives in the customer experience space. I bridge the gap between our core platform and automation teams to increase visibility of automation features as well as mentor team members joining these initiatives. I lead the implementation of new LLM features that have increased sales conversion rates for customers, added support for multimodal experiences and introduced e-commerce experiences in our chatbot.

React
Node.js
AWS
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Generative AI
March 2022 - April 2023
Engineering & Product Lead | Knightley

As Employee #1 at Knightley, I led the architecture, design and development of Knightley’s SaaS platform connecting early-stage founders & investors. I managed the product roadmap and transitioned the team to a customer-led development process that led to improvements in key product areas like onboarding and increased conversion rates and engagement.

React
Node.js
AWS
Figma
Customer Discovery
OKRs
Roadmapping & Strategy
Hiring
Devops
April 2020 - March 2022
Software Engineer | 540

My work at 540 focused on modernizing scheduling & biometrics systems across 3 different business lines for a federal agency to handle 32,000+ requests per day. I contributed to development of a component library used by our 80 person team to standardize the user experience. I collaborated with a team of designers and developers to improve workflows & improve request processing times.

React
Angular
Java
AWS
Github
Customer Interviews
February 2019 - March 2020 (Exited to Snap)
Software Engineer | MoQuality

I joined MoQuality as Employee #10 to help build their AI mobile app testing platform. My role focused on development of the product dashboard and incorporating AI/ML models into testing tools for our customers. I worked closely with the CTO and design team to shape the product roadmap, develop implementation strategies and conduct user studies.

React
Node.js
GraphQL
Firebase
Customer Interviews
Design Sprints
Hiring
September 2013 - January 2019
Co-founder & CTO | Byomes

I founded a client services company developing software solutions organizations and grew sales to upper five figures. I later led a pivot away from client services to a product-driven company. We released a breaking news app that utilized natural language processing and machine learning to process real-time data from various urces

PHP
Bootstrap
Python
NLTK
Scikit-Learn
Client Success
July 2017 - January 2020
Systems Engineer | Whisper Brain Machine Interface

I designed & built the MVP for a wearable device to improve communication for the hard of hearing. My work included development of the embedded software and companion mobile app as well as physical product design.

C++
Xamarin
Electronics
Industrial Design
May 2018 - July 2018
Research Intern | Georgia Tech Research Institute

I fabricated military test hardware following commercial best practices from design, involving wiring diagrams created using AutoCAD to 3D Solidworks assemblies, to validation and verification of completed product.

Electrical Design
AutoCAD
SolidWorks
Fabrication
August 2015 - August 2018
Aerobody & Composites Lead | Georgia Tech Solar Racing

I led an 8 person team in designing and building the carbon fiber shell of a solar powered race car that was one of 20 teams to qualify for a 1700 mile race across the United States. I worked with Delta Airlines to perform carbon fiber layups and Refined fiberglass and carbon fiber layup process required to create the car’s aerobody.

Composites Research
Manufacturing
CAD
Management
August 2018 - January 2019
Research Assistant | GT Ubicomp Lab

As a member of the GT Ubicomp Lab, I contributed to the development of a low power optical sensors for gesture tracking as part of the COSMOS project. I created optical tracking algorithms in Python by leveraging OpenCV and scikit-learn.

Python
Computer Vision
OpenCV
Scikit-Learn
Signals Processing

Press

A few articles and bits of news I've been featured in