Puya Rahmanian

I build consumer web experiences that scale — and that people actually find.

Software engineer on Snap's Profile & Creators team, where I own the web profile experience with a focus on SEO and organic discovery. Previously at Google and AWS.

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About

A bit about me

Puya Rahmanian is a software engineer on Snap's Profile & Creators team, where he owns the web profile experience. His focus is making profile pages fast, discoverable, and built for organic growth — treating SEO and search visibility as a core product surface rather than an afterthought.

Before Snap, he built hero features for the Android Dialer at Google — including Call Screening, Hold For Me, and Direct My Call — and led its ground-up reimplementation on Android Auto. Earlier, at Amazon Web Services, he developed and operated the services behind S3 Glacier cold-storage hardware. He began his career in backend engineering at T-Mobile and as an intern at Dell EMC.

He studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Outside of work he builds at the intersection of music and software — including The Indie WAV, a resource for independent artists navigating the music industry — and experiments with generative AI.

Experience

Where I've worked

  1. Snap

    Profile & Creators

    • Own the web profile experience — the public-facing profile page that surfaces creators and their content to the open web.
    • Lead SEO and organic-growth work for profiles, improving how profile pages are crawled, indexed, and discovered through search.

  2. Google

    Android Dialer

    • Led the ground-up reimplementation of the Dialer on Android Auto, closing feature gaps and reaching parity with the mobile dialer.
    • Shipped v3 of Direct My Call through a four-arm UX experiment that doubled feature engagement.
    • Built and maintained hero features — Call Screening, Hold For Me, Direct My Call — and instrumented metrics around critical user journeys.

  3. Amazon Web Services

    S3 Glacier

    • Built and operated RESTful services that schedule and execute I/O on S3 Glacier cold-storage hardware, with monitoring for hardware health, availability, and data durability.
    • Designed automation to improve hardware reliability while reducing cost and labor; rotated on-call to root-cause and resolve operational events.

  4. T-Mobile

    TVision

    • Built backend services for TVision, T-Mobile’s live-TV streaming product.

  5. Dell EMC

    Software Engineering Intern

    • Two software engineering internships across consecutive summers.

Projects

Things I've built

Puzzably

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Describe a visual world and AI generates a cohesive set of 500-piece jigsaw puzzles designed to hang together as gallery wall art — printed on museum-grade board and shipped.

Role
Solo build
Outcome
End-to-end commerce on Next.js, Supabase, and Stripe with AI image generation and programmatic SEO.
Next.jsSupabaseStripeAIProgrammatic SEO

AlloyHaus

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A fitment-first aftermarket wheel marketplace with a “Guaranteed Fit” experience — shoppers pick their vehicle and see only wheels confirmed to fit.

Role
Solo build
Outcome
Headless Shopify + Next.js with a proprietary Postgres fitment database and build-time programmatic SEO landing pages.
Next.jsShopifyPostgresProgrammatic SEO

Goat Music

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A “board of the albums that define you” — a social music product on the web with a native iOS/Android companion app.

Role
Solo build
Outcome
Turborepo monorepo pairing a Next.js 15 web app with an Expo native app over a shared, typed API layer.
Next.jsExpoTurborepoTypeScript

Goat Studio

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A content label for data-rich brands — signs your data, masters every cut, and ships short-form built to chart across a roster of brands.

Role
Solo build
Outcome
Next.js 15 (App Router, server components) with a custom design-token system, deployed at goatstudio.io.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind

Skills

Craft & tools

Languages

TypeScriptKotlinJavaPythonSwiftC/C++

Web

ReactNext.jsNode.jsAstroTailwind

Mobile

AndroidJetpack ComposeReact NativeExpoSwiftUI

Cloud & Infra

AWSGCPVercelPostgreSQLSupabaseCI/CD

Focus

SEO & organic growthProgrammatic SEOGenAI / prompt engineering

Contact

Get in touch

Whether it's an interesting problem, a collaboration, or just a hello — my inbox is open.

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