Hi, I’m Sajad Rahimi.

My principles are simple: keep it robust, keep it clear, and keep it maintainable. I love clean codes, small sharp services, and docs that help the next engineer (often future-me).
When I’m not debugging, I’m probably losing a friendly game of chess, or connecting weird dots on a piece of paper (and call it my Ph.D. Thesis)!

Tech stack

Python SQL Docker Kubernetes Go Java Kotlin

Experience

Technical Team Lead · Ima

Tehran, Iran · Oct 2023 – Jun 2025
  • Led end-to-end development for a digital entertainment platform across Python, Java, Rust & Go.
  • Owned Kubernetes operations & zero-downtime releases; built CI/CD with GitLab CI + Helm.
  • p95 < 100 ms at peak; <1h downtime over two years; no critical prod bugs.
Streaming · High scale · Reliability

Senior Software Engineer · Toman

Tehran, Iran · Dec 2022 – Nov 2023
  • Led a 5-dev Python backend team; delivered an Escrow service with >80% test coverage in <2 weeks.
  • Reduced CRM contact by ~90% via resilient flows & automation.
  • Designed SSO across services with Keycloak.
Fintech · Payments · SSO

Technical Lead · Boomino

Tehran, Iran · Sep 2021 – Mar 2023
  • Led 15-dev team (Python/Kotlin/JS); cut Dev↔Product comms time by ~80%.
  • Ran red/blue-team exercise; fixed >40 security vulns; 70% fewer bug reports.
  • Mentored 6 interns/juniors to higher technical levels.
Leadership · Security

Lead Backend Developer · Boomino

Tehran, Iran · Apr 2020 – Sep 2021
  • Led 8-dev team; improved QA/user bug reports by 60–70%.
  • Designed stack to fit product & team; built recommender with ~93% predictive accuracy.
ML · Recommenders · VOD

Lead Backend Developer · Hamrah Academy

Tehran, Iran · Oct 2020 – Apr 2021
  • Designed 12-service microservice architecture serving 3k+ concurrent users.
  • Shipped VOD/live streaming for 2k live viewers; live chat handling 10k+ rps.
  • Built CDN layer (MinIO/SeaweedFS/Nginx/FastAPI); −60% media load time.
EdTech · Scale

Senior Backend Developer · Innowin

Tehran, Iran · Dec 2019 – Jan 2021
  • Built behavior-based recommender (≥80% prediction accuracy) & follow-suggest system.
  • Autoscaling with Docker; sustained ~200k req/s.
Social · High throughput

Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer · Innowin

Tehran, Iran · Mar 2019 – Dec 2019
  • Delivered 500+ APIs on a monolith; resolved 100+ legacy bugs (−70% future reports).
Legacy modernization

Python Freelance Developer

Tehran, Iran · Jan 2017 – Jun 2019

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science
University of Tehran — Tehran, Iran
Sep 2024 – Present
M.Sc., Computer Science
University of Tehran — Tehran, Iran
Sep 2020 – 2023
B.Sc., Computer Science
Amirkabir University of Technology — Tehran, Iran
2015 – 2020

Contact

Want to discuss backend architecture, platform reliability, or a role? I’d love to chat.