Amin Ya

Lead Software Engineer at Abacus AI
Vancouver, Canada
Email addressaminyahyaabadi74@gmail.com
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Experience

  • Vancouver, Canada / San Francisco, USA, Nov 2024 - Present
    • Led the end-to-end development of Office Abacus AI, an AI agent for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook with contextual chat, document and spreadsheet analysis, report and chart generation, image analysis and generation, formatting, and Teams integration
    • Led the development of Abacus AI Desktop(DeepAgent/CodeLLM), a powerful desktop AI assistant combining an agentic coding editor and CLI with chat and browsing capabilities
    • Ranked top 3 on TerminalBench, surpassing OpenAI Codex CLI (GPT-5) and Anthropic Claude Code
  • Vancouver, Canada, Sep 2025 - Present
    • Developed SPARC Copilot, the AI agent for PSCAD (Power System CAD), enabling electrical engineers to optimize systems using AI
    • Built the Rust/Tauri agent client with a proprietary multi-objective AI optimization algorithm to tune power systems
    • Developed the Bun/Elysia server incorporating LangGraph and the Claude Opus API
    • Designed a D3-based multi objective-drawing system for engineers to define target outcomes via touch
  • Vancouver, Canada, 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos
    • Designed and developed Robodrake, the whole-body controller of Phoenix
    • Led the automatic creation, development, and deployment of digital robot embodiments reducing the time to URDF by 18 times
    • Designed a real-time dynamics and simulation engine for Phoenix based on Drake C++
    • Optimized the Phoenix controller for low-latency performance running at 1 KHz with sub-µs jitter
    • Developed the RTI DDS communication layer for the Phoenix Hand Controller
    • Implemented the operation logic and real-time deployment of the Phoenix Hand Controller
    • Integrated Robodrake with the trajectories and tracking modes of Carbon (Phoenix AI)
    • Designed the real-time continuous Inverse Kinematics Trajectory Planner used in Robodrake
    • Created Granular to optimize deployment of the digital robot embodiments reducing the delivery time from 15m to 1s
    • Built scalable processes around software building, packaging, Docker containerization, and CI/CD
  • Vancouver, Canada, Nov 2023 - Present
    • Built real-time audio plugins in C++ with JUCE, including HEAL, with licensing and cross-client license protection across C++ and Rust clients
    • Built the Rust/Actix backend and platform for authentication, machine/device management, purchases, payments, and licensing services for C++ and Rust clients
  • Vancouver, Canada, May 2024 - Dec 2024 · 8 mos
    • Built the Tangled AI-Quantum game that demonstrates the feasibility of Quantum Computers for mathematically hard problems in real-world applications and achieve Quantum Supremacy
  • Vancouver, Canada / New York, USA, 2021 - 2022 · 10 mos
    • Developed the Post.news full-stack app via Solid-start and Solid-js - Developed the Post.news Android app via Capacitor Ionic - Optimized the performance of the app startup, news feed, payment pages, and user profiles
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    Winnipeg, Canada, 2018 - 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo
    • Designed an intelligent drone testbed used for validation of new satellite or drone control algorithms and hardware
    • Identified the dynamics of the quadcopters intelligently with minimal measuring using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
    • Developed a custom onboard software for the drone to autonomously control the quadcopters’s motion and operations
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    Winnipeg, Canada, 2018 - 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo
    • Led the flight software and onboard computer teams for the Iris Satellite (ManitobaSat) launched by NASA/SpaceX
    • Designed the modular onboard computer based on a Smart Fusion 2 system on a chip (FPGA/Arm Cortex)
    • Developed custom real-time flight software running on FreeRTOS to control all the satellite’s operations such as attitude and determination control
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    Winnipeg, Canada, Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo
    • Developed machine learning and analytical image processing algorithms for satellite’s onboard detection of resident space objects (RSOs) from commercial-off-the-shelf star trackers.
  • Isfahan, 2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo
    • Developed an intelligent control method for a distributed system using a self-sensing piezoelectric actuator and PSO
    • Modeled the dynamics of the system with a novel FEA/FDA method to test the controller

Open-Source Experience

  • Made more than 30,000 contributions on GitHub. Some of the notable projects are:
    • The leader of the Atom-Community organization that brings an integrated development environment to Atom (page)
    • The author of project_options and setup-cpp that provide a full C++ development environment used at Sanctuary AI, LLVM, Tesla Motors (page).
    • The maintainer of zeromq.js that provides the Nodejs interface to ZMQ used in Microsoft VsCode and Jupyter (page)
    • The author of Zadeh, a library for fast fuzzy filtering and matching written in C++
    • The author of minijson, a library for the fast minification of the JSON files written in D, C, and AVX2 and SSE4_1 SIMD.
    • The author of AcuteML, an intelligent markup language for web development written in Julia (page)
    • The leader of the JuliaMatlab organization, an open-source alternative for Matlab written in Julia (page)
    • The co-owner of the JuliaMusic organization that provides music research tools (e.g. MusicXML.jl) in Julia (page)

Education

Other Projects

  • Rhino XR-3 5 DOF Robot Arm Real-time Control via Arduino
    Selected Topics in Robot Technology, Supervisor: Dr. S. Balakrishnan

  • Barrett WAM 7 DOF Robot Arm Simulation and Analysis
    Robotics, Supervisor: Dr. H. Mousavi

  • Model Predictive Control of Robot Arm using Neural Networks
    Neural Networks, Supervisor: Dr. M. Kamali

  • Intelligent Fuzzy PID Controller for a Bluetooth-controlled DC Motor via AVR
    Intelligent Control, Supervisor: Dr. F. Sheikholeslam
    Mechatronic Systems, Supervisor: M. Danesh

  • Parallel Image Processing using MPI and OpenCV
    Parallel Processing, Supervisor: Dr. I. Jeffrey

  • Custom Simulated Annealing Investigation for Salesperson Problem - New Mathematical Proof of The Multidimensional Newton’s Weights Optimization Algorithm
    Applied Computational Intelligence, Supervisor: Dr. K. Ferens

  • Designing a Signal Processing and Measuring Instrument in Labview - Verifying The Instrument using Acoustic Analysis of a Trumpet in MSC ACTRAN
    Mechatronics Lab 2, Supervisors: Dr. M. Danesh
    Engineering Acoustics, Supervisor: Dr. A. Loghmani

  • Multilayered Composite Shell Dynamics and Crack Analysis under Impact via Abaqus
    Computer-Aided Engineering, Supervisor: Dr. R. Jafari

Honours and Awards

  • Fellowship for Education Purposes - $40,500, U of M, Canada, 2018-2021
  • Faculty of Graduate Studies Program Completion Scholarship - $2,500, U of M, Canada, 2021
  • International Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship (IGSES) - $6,000, U of M, Canada, 2018
  • Fellowship to Study at IUT for M.Sc Program without Entrance Exam, 2017
  • Ranked top 10% among the students of the Mechanical Engineering Department, IUT, 2017
  • Ranked top 0.3% among 260000 participants in the Iranian University Entrance Exam for B.Sc. Studies, 2013
  • Qualified as very good in Mathematics Alympiad Final International Round in the Netherlands, 2012
  • Ranked 1st in Mathematics Alympiad National Round in Iran, 2011

Software and Programming Skills

  • Programming Languages: TypeScript, C++, Rust, Python, Matlab, Julia, D, Go, AssemblyScript, Verilog
  • Technical Software: Matlab/Simulink, RTI-Admin Console, Abaqus, LabView, Xilinx SDSoc - Vivado, Simpack, MSC Adams / Car, MSC Actran, Autodesk Inventor, CATIA, Proteus, Modelsim, Maple
  • Embedded Processors: Xilinx Zynq 7020 SoC/FPGA, Smart Fusion 2 SoC/FPGA, Pixhawk Flight Controller (Px4), Arm Cortex A9, Arm Cortex M3, Parrot Mambo Flight Controller, Arduino Due /Uno, AVR Atmel STK500, Intel/AMD x86_64, Apple ARM64

Publications

  • A. Yahyaabadi, M. Driedger,…, P. Ferguson, “ManitobaSat-1: A Novel Approach for Technology Advancement,” in the Journal of IEEE Potentials, 2020, Download as PDF

  • A. Yahyaabadi, M. Driedger,…, P. Ferguson, “ManitobaSat-1: Making Space for Innovation,” in IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Edmonton, Canada, 2019 Download as PDF

  • A. Yahyaabadi, P. Ferguson, “An intelligent multi-vehicle drone testbed for space systems and remote sensing verification,” in Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) ASTRO, Montreal, Canada, 2019 Download as PDF

  • A. Yahyaabadi, P. Harrison, P. Ferguson, “Auto Code Generation for Onboard Space Object Detection and Other Flight Software Applications - A Feasibility Study,” in Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) ASTRO, Montreal, Canada, 2019 Download as PDF

Attended Conferences

  • Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) ASTRO, Montreal, Canada, 2019
    Submitted two papers and presented them:

    • An intelligent multi-vehicle drone testbed for space systems and remote sensing verification Download as PDF
    • Auto Code Generation for Onboard Space Object Detection and Flight Software Applications Download as PDF

  • ArcticNet (ASM) 2018, Ottawa, Canada, 2018
    Presented my work by the poster and oral presentation:

    • A multi-vehicle drone testbed for space systems and remote sensing verification, Proceedings P. 198 Download as PDF

Additional Experience

  • Summer Internship in Bama Co, Summer 2014/2016
    • Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance planning of machinery and vehicles in Bama Co
  • Jury Membership at Isfahan Mathhouse, 2013 - 2018
    • Member of the Jury in Isfahan Mathhouse for choosing qualified participants for International Competitions (e.g., Alympiad)
    • Alympiad competition participants test grader in Isfahan Mathhouse
  • Teaching Assistant at the Isfahan University of Technology, Fall 2016
    • Statics, instructor: Dr. S. Akbarzadeh

GRE

  • Quantitative: 170/170
  • Verbal: 151/170
  • Analytical Writing: 3.5

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