SKILLS

Backend

Python, Django, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, REST, GraphQL, OAuth/OAuth2, Gunicorn

Frontend

TypeScript, React

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch

Cloud/DevOps

Docker, Kubernetes, NGINX, AWS, GCP, Linux, GitLab CI, IaC (Terraform, Ansible)

Quality/Observability

Pytest, Cypress, Sentry, Grafana, OpenAPI/Swagger

AI Delivery

Claude Code, Cursor, AI-assisted product refinement, implementation, code review, QA

Practices

Microservices, API design & standardization, performance tuning, CI/CD pipelines

WORK EXPERIENCE

Partnerz

Senior Software Engineer (Shopify Apps) • Dec 2024 - Present

  • Spearheaded end-to-end development of Subscription Box features, adding $5,000+ to MRR.
  • Optimized CI/CD pipelines to reduce Pytest runtime by 25%, saving the engineering team 8 hours monthly.
  • Took ownership of merge request reviews, saving Engineering Management 16 hours per month.
  • Developed targeted pricing and onboarding flows, driving a 10% increase in conversion rates in one month.
  • Built theme-adaptive UI widgets, successfully decreasing support tickets by 45%.
  • Established Claude Code and Cursor as a primary development workflow spanning product refinement, implementation, tests, and QA.
  • Designed AI-assisted coding standards and agentic skills that tripled feature delivery speed while preserving review quality.
  • Stack: Python, Django, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, Celery, REST, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, GitLab CI, Pytest, Cypress, Sentry, Grafana, OAuth2, Shopify APIs.

Payvand Business Network Inc.

Technical Team Lead • Apr 2023 - Nov 2024

  • Managed an 8-engineer team building property valuation platforms, taking ownership of the microservices architecture.
  • Integrated OAuth2 with major partners, processing 30+ requests/minute with sub-3-second p95 latency.
  • Introduced containerized CI/CD and IaC, slashing deployment times by nearly 50% and enabling daily releases.
  • Acted as primary backend code reviewer (5+ MRs/week), enforcing strict standards to maintain high quality.
  • Developed innovative features for the LegalKite RegTech platform, boosting user conversion by 25%.
  • Engineered LLM prompts for a legal exam evaluator, delivering high-precision automated grading in seconds.
  • Optimized Elasticsearch indices and test infrastructure, halving p95 search latency.
  • Revamped SEO indexing logic, increasing indexed web pages tenfold.
  • Standardized API documentation using OpenAPI/Swagger, boosting cross-functional team velocity by 30%.
  • Stack: Python, Django, Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Microservices, Gunicorn, Docker, NGINX, GitLab CI, OpenAPI, Sentry, Grafana, Linux.

Sangyab

Senior Software Engineer • Sep 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Engineered a visual search engine across 1M+ images using embeddings, achieving sub-2-second p95 latency.
  • Implemented Redis distributed locks to manage high-concurrency requests and ensure data consistency.
  • Deployed staging and production CI/CD pipelines, accelerating the development lifecycle by 40%.
  • Enhanced technical SEO and page indexing, driving a 150% increase in Google impressions in two weeks.
  • Stack: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Selenium, Gunicorn, Docker, NGINX, GitHub Actions, Linux.

Novin Pardazan Arax

Software Engineer • Mar 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Architected a daily settlement system for a custom banking application handling 1,000+ daily transactions.
  • Automated integration and deployment workflows, cutting the SDLC timeframe by 30%.
  • Introduced comprehensive regression testing, reducing production defects by 25%.
  • Stack: PHP, Python, Django, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, NGINX, WordPress, Linux, GitHub Actions.

EDUCATION

Sharif University of Technology

M.Sc., Computer Engineering (Software) • Feb 2025

  • GPA: 4.0/4.0

Thesis: Pipeline Inference Optimization -- reduced compute costs by 25% via GPU partitioning experiments and a runtime scheduler for automated configuration. Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible.

University of Isfahan

B.Sc., Computer Engineering (Software) • 2017--2021

  • Ranked 1st in faculty - GPA 3.98/4.0 (18.86/20)

Open Source

django-imagekit

Contributed fixes and improvements.

milvus-io/bootcamp

Contributed fixes and improvements.

Volunteering

2021 ISC Conference

Supported infrastructure delivery (Django, React, MongoDB) • 2021

Graduation workflow portal

Built early web systems for master's students (WordPress, PHP) • 2018

Outside Interests

  • Problem solving (Mathematics & Computer Olympiads)
  • ACM programming contests
  • Continuous C++ problem solving since 2015