About
Amir Kavousian is the founder and CEO of DevArmor, a platform focused on threat modeling and security design reviews for AI-based development. He previously co-founded and served as CTO of Altitude Networks, which was acquired by CoinList, and led engineering teams at Capital One. Kavousian holds a PhD in Engineering from Stanford and lives in the Bay Area.
Founder at Devarmor
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Experience
- DevArmorFounder & CEOcurrent2024 — present
- CoinListVP of Engineering2022 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- Accomplice VCVC Scout2019 — 2022
- Altitude NetworksCo-Founder & CTO2018 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- Capital OneDirector of Machine Learning (Fraud Detection)2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- SunrunFounding Machine Learning Engineer2014 — 2016San Francisco, CA
Skills & more
Web Applications2Team Building1Startups2FinTech1Fraud Detection1Strategic Thinking1Business Intelligence (BI)1GPT-41ChatGPT1NumPy1TypeScript1Java1
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)TerraformNatural Language Processing (NLP)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Deep LearningDevOpsDisaster RecoveryCybersecurityManagementLeadershipStrategyInformation Security- Deep Learning Specialization — Coursera
- AWS Subject Matter Expert (Machine Learning | Solutions Architect) — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Wilderness First Responder — Wilderness Medicine Training Center International
- American Mountaineering — Rainier Mountaineering Inc.
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Amir Kavousian?
- Amir Kavousian is the founder and CEO of DevArmor, a platform focused on threat modeling and security design reviews for AI-based development. He previously co-founded and served as CTO of Altitude Networks, which was acquired by CoinList, and led engineering teams at Capital One. Kavousian holds a PhD in Engineering from Stanford and lives in the Bay Area.
- Where does Amir Kavousian work?
- Amir Kavousian is Founder of Devarmor.
- What companies did Amir Kavousian found?
- Amir Kavousian founded Devarmor.
- Where did Amir Kavousian go to school?
- Amir Kavousian studied at Stanford University (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Engineering); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Stanford Ignite - Full-time Entrepreneurship Program); Stanford University (Master of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering).
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