Senior Software Engineer | Senior Python Backend Engineer | AI Delivery Expert

🌍 Remote, UAE | 📧 armanexplorer@gmail.com | 🔗 LinkedIn | 💬 Telegram | 🐙 GitHub

I'm a Senior Python Backend Engineer with 6+ years of experience architecting scalable, production-ready APIs and AI-assisted workflows. I specialize in microservices, async processing, and cloud-native deployments across AWS and GCP. I have a proven track record of owning features end-to-end—from architectural design to automated rollout—using modern AI-assisted tools like Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate delivery while preserving rigorous code quality and review standards.

• Revenue & Product Impact: Spearheaded Subscription Box features for Shopify Apps at Partnerz, generating $5,000+ in added MRR and driving a 10% increase in monthly conversion rates.
• AI-Assisted Delivery: Established Claude Code & Cursor workflows and custom agentic coding skills that tripled feature delivery speed.
• Infrastructure & CI Optimization: Reduced Pytest suite runtime by 25% (saving 8 hours/month), slashed deployment cycles by ~50% via IaC and containerization, and halved p95 search latency.
• Engineering Leadership: Led an 8-engineer microservices team, acted as primary code reviewer (saving 16 hours/month for management), and reduced customer support tickets by 45% via theme-adaptive UI components.
• Academic & AI Research: Graduated with a 4.0 / 4.0 GPA for M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology; published thesis on GPU partitioning & pipeline inference optimization (reducing compute costs by 25%).

• Backend & Core: Python, Django (DRF), Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, REST APIs, GraphQL, OAuth / OAuth2, Gunicorn
• Databases & Search: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, SQL & NoSQL Schema Design
• Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, NGINX, AWS, GCP, Linux, Git, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
• Quality & Observability: Pytest, Cypress, Sentry, Grafana, OpenAPI / Swagger
• AI Delivery: Claude Code, Cursor, AI-assisted product refinement, automated code review, prompt engineering
• Practices: Microservices architecture, API design & standardization, performance tuning, CI/CD pipelines

Partnerz — Remote (UAE) | 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 customer support tickets by 45%.
• Established Claude Code and Cursor as a primary development workflow spanning product refinement, implementation, testing, 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. — Remote (Canada) | Apr 2023 – Nov 2024

• Managed an 8-engineer team building property valuation platforms, taking full 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 (Terraform, Ansible), 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.
• Automated SSL certificate renewals to eliminate manual infrastructure maintenance.
• 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 — Isfahan, Iran (Hybrid/Remote) | 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 — Isfahan, Iran | 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.

• M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Software) — Sharif University of Technology (Graduated 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).
• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Software) — University of Isfahan (2017 – 2021)
  • GPA: 3.98 / 4.0 (18.86 / 20) — Ranked 1st in faculty

• Propision — AI-powered real estate price evaluation platform.
• Tokenision — Real estate tokenization platform for fractional ownership.
• Metriland — Innovative real estate transaction platform.
• Open Source Contributions: Contributed bug fixes and feature enhancements to open-source Python projects (django-imagekit, milvus-io/bootcamp).
• Conference Infrastructure: Managed infrastructure delivery and web development for the 2021 ISC Conference (Django, React, MongoDB).
• Graduation Portal: Developed web systems including a comprehensive graduation workflow portal for master's students (WordPress, PHP).

I'm open to discussing opportunities in backend engineering, AI-assisted delivery workflows, DevOps, or technical leadership. Feel free to reach out!