Garo Vartabedian

Solutions Engineer

Garo Vartabedian

An everyday working man who loves Jesus. Every chapter started at the bottom, and I worked my way up — complacency is the enemy. Now I build software.

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“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.”
— Colossians 3:23

That's the standard. Every room I've worked in, I've tried to work like it's true.

Stops along the way

I've always started at the bottom.

A few of them — not all, there have been more. The Navy. A trading floor. A Vegas sales desk. Construction sites. A kitchen. A bar. Two years abroad. Different rooms, same rule: show up, start low, outwork it, and never get comfortable.

U.S. Navy
Electronics Technician, 2003–2008. Where I learned discipline — and how to make the things that have to work, work.
Columbia
B.A. Philosophy. How to think clearly and take a hard problem apart.
CNBC
Technical operator, live on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Live TV doesn't wait for you.
Finance Sales
On the sales side — selling financial research to the desks that ran on it.
Tech Sales
Same work in tech — selling the research, learning the industry fast enough to sell it.
Door-to-Door Sales
Home-security sales, door to door. No harder school for hearing 'no' and knocking the next one anyway.
Timeshare Sales
Westgate and Wyndham, Las Vegas. Read the room fast, hear a hundred no's, find the yes.
Field Service Engineer
View, Inc. First one on-site when enterprise smart-glass deployments broke — US, Canada, the UK, the EU.
Two Years Abroad
Country to country, on my own — study, reset, and proof I can land anywhere and figure it out.
Pizzeria
Honest work, fast hands, no ego.
Prep Cook
Mise en place — get everything ready before the rush hits.
Bar, Front of House
Take care of people, and the night takes care of itself.

  1. 2022 — present

    Independent Software & Automation Engineer · Self-employed

    Build full-stack apps, browser automation, and LLM/agentic workflows. JobPilot, atxbro.com.

  2. 2016 — 2020

    Field Service Engineer · View, Inc.

    First on-site contact for enterprise smart-glass commissioning across the US, Canada, the UK, and the EU. Laptop and multimeter both — while coordinating glaziers, electricians, GCs, building managers, and the paying customer to the same hard deadline. After handoff: service calls on live sites and product demos for the sales team.

  3. 2008 — 2009

    Customer Service Engineer · Christie Digital

    Field engineer through the cinema industry's switch from 35mm film to digital — commissioning, maintenance, 24/7/365 on-call. The only Christie face the customer (and the union projectionist the tech was phasing out) ever saw. Left for the post-9/11 GI Bill and Columbia.

  4. 2003 — 2008

    Electronics Technician / Communications · U.S. Navy

    Where the troubleshooting discipline started — make the things that have to work, work.

And now

I build the tools.

Software is just the newest room — I started at the bottom here too. Same rule as every room before it: show up, learn fast, outwork it. The throughline was never an industry. It's that I can walk into a new one and make myself useful.

JobPilot

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Scans Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby postings, scores the fit, drafts the documents, and tracks the queue — and a person signs off on every submission. Automation that helps without taking the wheel.

PythonPlaywrightChrome DevTools ProtocolSQLite

I also build and ship atxbro.com — tools for my neighbors.

Let's talk.

Best fit: Solutions, Implementation, and Customer Engineering at small, close-knit teams — the kind where range is an asset, not a question mark.

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“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.” — Colossians 3:23Garo Vartabedian · Austin, Texas · U.S. Navy veteran