Ashot Chobanyan

I build tools that
work and do work!

End-to-end application development, AI integrations, and automation.

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Highlighted Projects

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Specialized Realty

Operations Hub

An internal application hosting tools, operational data, and centralized team workflows.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • Azure App Service
  • PostgreSQL
2026View project →
Farmers Insurance

Meal & Break Exception Application

A timecard exception and remediation application that reduced ongoing exceptions by more than 60% versus baseline.

  • Python
  • SQLite
  • Quickbase
  • JavaScript
Jan 2019–Aug 2023View project →
Independent

Unity Game Development

Personal experiments in virtual reality, procedural terrain, navigation systems, and whatever seems fun to develop.

  • Unity
  • C#
  • OpenVR
  • HLSL
2018–PresentView project →

Experience

Mar 2026 — Present

Freelance AI Software Developer

Specialized Realty · Glendale, CA

  • Built an internal MCP server connecting Claude to AppFolio, Yardi, and QuickBooks data, with usage tracking and guardrails.
  • Unified property-management and internal data in a centralized database.
  • Streamlined workflows, saving hundreds of staff hours each month.
  • Built tools for delinquency management, insurance policies and vendors, and daily task tracking.
  • Used Sonnet to drive SharePoint document sorting and metadata tagging.
  • Built and deployed a Flask platform on Azure with PostgreSQL, Entra ID authentication, and GitHub Actions.
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Jan 2024 — Feb 2026

Freelance Process Automation Consultant

Specialized Realty · Glendale, CA

  • Automated invoicing and contracting workflows, reducing cycle times by more than 70%.
  • Migrated company assets into SharePoint and removed redundant data.
  • Built Power Apps and Power Automate workflows to generate, send, and track Docusign agreements.
  • Advised on token usage and costs for one-off AI requests and recurring automated processes.

Oct 2020 — Oct 2023

Application Developer

Farmers Insurance · Woodland Hills, CA

  • Refactored code to cut API calls by more than 50% after a vendor billing-model change.
  • Used phased rollouts and pilots to introduce features to approximately 10,000 internal users.
  • Migrated legacy server functionality, including replacing an ASP.NET application with a Python tool.
  • Performed regression testing with Jenkins, Selenium, and custom tests; maintained server dependencies and security requirements.
  • Supported inherited legal intranet sites, typically by debugging PowerShell scripts and expanding error-handling capabilities.
  • Built a user-friendly, read-only view of legal matter data in Quickbase, populated by custom scripts
  • Worked with HR and Legal clients through design, implementation, rollout, and support on the Corporate Apps team.
  • Assessed application feasibility and estimated development effort.
  • Collaborated with the Okta team on SCIM provisioning and application sign-on integration.
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Jan 2019 — Oct 2020

Operations Analyst

Farmers Insurance · Woodland Hills, CA

  • Built ETL pipelines for internal applications and leadership dashboards.
  • Developed Quickbase applications with Python backends and custom JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
  • Maintained a Python wrapper for the legacy Quickbase XML API and translated stakeholder needs into requirements.
  • Built Python data processing and ETL pipelines for business logic and Power BI reporting on the Efficiency team.
  • Validated feature rollouts and regression tests, with two-week development sprints and frequent stakeholder feedback.

Jun 2018 — Dec 2018

Summer Intern / Part-time Developer

Farmers Insurance · Los Angeles, CA

  • Completed a ten-week full-time internship, then continued part-time for 20 hours per week through the end of the year.
  • Created application test cases and helped perform regression testing.
  • Extended Quickbase data processing through JavaScript and its API; built custom graphs, visualizations, and widgets with HTML and CSS.
  • Learned VBA to build a multi-project roadmap visualizer in Excel.

Cool Skills

Languages
  • Python
  • C#
  • C++
  • JavaScript
  • Java
Applications & infrastructure
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • SQL
  • NoSQL
  • Docker
  • Power Platform
  • Quickbase
  • SharePoint
  • Power BI
  • Git
  • Flask
  • CI/CD
  • Agile development
AI
  • LLM application development
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • AI integrations
  • Usage guardrails
Simulation & VR
  • Unity
  • OpenVR
  • HLSL compute shaders
  • PID control
  • Runtime navigation meshes
Identity & testing
  • Entra ID
  • Okta
  • SCIM provisioning
  • Jenkins
  • Selenium
  • Regression testing

Education

2019–2020

Master of Science in Computer Science

California State University, Northridge

Thesis: Aggregate Movement and Interaction Data Capture Method for Virtual Reality with Applications

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2016–2018

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

California State University, Northridge