Hi, I am Drēm

Drēm Darios

Senior Staff AWS Solutions Architect at Rivian

I am a solutions architect/software engineer with 10+ years of work experience 💪
I have a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Computer Science 👨‍🎓
I love to build products people love 💞
I’ve worked in a number of industries from IoT 🤖to e-commerce 🛍
I have a passion for software architecture 🏛
When I’m not outdoors 🏄‍♂️🧗‍♂️🚵‍♂️
You can find me playing video games 👾
Or learning new technology and techniques 👨‍💻

Architecture
Java
Python
DevOps
Leadership
Product

Skills

Experiences

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Rivian

Nov 2021 - Present, Irvine, CA

An American electric vehicle manufacturer, automotive technology, and outdoor recreation company.

Senior Staff AWS Solutions Architect

Dec 2023 - Present

  • Establish rules and guidelines for the deployment, management, and monitoring of cloud infrastructure, applications, and data
  • Ensure that cloud resources are utilized efficiently, securely, and in alignment with Rivian’s business objectives
  • Identify and address cost optimization opportunities while also monitoring and controlling costs associated with cloud resources
Staff AWS Solutions Architect

Nov 2021 - Dec 2023

  • Develop best practices and standards that help accelerate Rivian’s time to market
  • Act as a consultant to various business units by helping to design and deploy scalable cloud solutions
  • Help develop a standard catalog of products and manage the AWS environment
  • Drive the architecture and technology choices that follow the Well-Architected framework
  • Work closely with the organization to adopt next-generation architecture strategies

Rakuten (Ebates)

Mar 2017 - Nov 2021, San Mateo, CA

The leading cash-back website.

Engineering Manager

Mar 2021 - Nov 2021

  • Manage a remote team of cross dicipline engineers
  • Technical lead for our data pravicy platform and other data privacy services
  • Help to define processes, policies, and standards aound data governance of our member data
  • Participate in architecture reviews
  • Lead the learning and development working groups for our Architecture and Java Guild
  • Mentor in the Rakuten Mentorship program
Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2017 - Mar 2021

  • Break up our monolithic application into several microservices
  • Design architectural solutions to technical problems
  • Provided leadership and direction to teams across the company
  • Heavily involved in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring process
  • Active contributor to our Python Guild monthly newsletter
  • Host an office wide weekly book club
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Software Engineer III
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Life Technologies)

Sep 2014 - Mar 2017, Carlsbad, CA

The world leader in serving science.

Responsibilities:
  • Technical lead and lead architect
  • Built service-oriented framework in Python
  • Built an integral framework responsible for connecting all Thermo Fisher devices the Cloud
  • Lead technical discussions on design patterns, new technologies.
  • Created Android service application to provide IoT connectivity

Software Engineer II
The Experience Engine (Accesso)

Jul 2013 - Aug 2014, Solana Beach, CA

Experience management and real-time interaction platform.

Responsibilities:
  • Created RESTful web services in Java
  • Created and managed numerous EC2 instances
  • Gained extensive knowledge of OSGi
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Projects

Gun Gun Shoot
Gun Gun Shoot
Creator 2019

Serverless project of a Rock Paper Scissors type game, but with strategy and guns

Details
Hot Cold App
Hot Cold App
Creator 2013

The Hot-Cold game we used to play as kids, converted into an Android app that uses Bluetooth Beacons

Star
Class Rewind
Class Rewind
Consultant 2014

Software built as an educational supplement that allows students to re-watch the class at home while the teacher remains in control of who gets to view the recording

Deep Laser
Deep Laser
Creator 2015

Service Oriented framework designed to connect any device to the cloud

Jeasy - Easy Rules
Jeasy - Easy Rules
Contributor 2015

Lightweight POJO based Rules Engine

Star
Turing Machine
Turing Machine
Owner 2011

A turing machine built in Java

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Image Rekognition
Image Rekognition
Owner 2020

Serverless app that provides data points about an uploaded image

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Mandelbrot Set
Mandelbrot Set
Owner 2008

Visualizing the Mandelbrot set in Java

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iRemember
iRemember
Consultant 2017

A platform for capturing video and images from events and posting them on Instagram

Achievements

Book Club Host

Mentorship

Graduation

Certified