$ ssh ali@irani.im
// Software Engineer & Product Thinker
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Product-minded engineer with nearly two decades of shipping production systems in GoLang and PHP — splitting the last few years between hands-on backend work and engineering leadership. Most recently VP of Engineering at iGap Messenger, before that CTO at two social platforms — caring about the whole product, from UX flows to production. Based in Tehran, Iran.
Started freelancing in 2007 and never really stopped — WordPress plugins, Telegram bots, and client sites alongside a day job that evolved from generalist web work into deep backend systems and, eventually, engineering leadership.
Comfortable owning a service end to end: API design, caching, queues, CI/CD and monitoring, in GoLang and PHP (Laravel, Yii2). On the people side: hiring, restructuring, and introducing product management where it was missing.
Beyond the backend: shipping is more than code. I've designed product and UI/UX across projects, covered infra & DevOps myself, dabbled in marketing when the launch demanded it, and always cared about the product layer — not to replace my craft, but to sharpen the decisions behind it.
Currently between roles after 18 months leading engineering at iGap Messenger, one of Iran's larger messaging apps.
Education: B.Sc. IT, Web Design — University of Applied Science and Technology (2012–2014) · Associate, Computer Software — Islamic Azad University, Roudehen (2007–2010)
type AliIrani struct { Location string Languages []string Since int Roles []string } func New() *AliIrani { return &AliIrani{ Location: "Tehran, IR", Languages: []string{"go", "php", "js"}, Since: 2007, Roles: []string{"IC", "CTO", "VP Eng"}, } } func (a *AliIrani) Ship(p *Problem) string { // prefers small teams, fast loops for !p.Solved { a.Optimize(p) } return "shipped 🚀" }
Open-source WordPress plugin with 30,000+ active installs, a 4.3 rating from 90 reviews, and 72 GitHub stars.
Popular Telegram bot for the Quran with over 80,000 users.
Platform for Hayat's branches — parent monitoring panel, entrance tracking, shop, reservations, dynamic vouchers, feedback tracking, SMS notifications, ACL and tiered discounts.
E-commerce platform for purchasing products, managing discount codes, tracking inventory, and handling delivery schedules and stations.
Managed the wp-persian themes section — 250+ Farsi/RTL themes and the review-and-publish workflow.
more on github.com/airani ↗
$ ./contact_me.sh --now
From product idea to production scale — whether it's a backend built to last, a system that has outgrown its architecture, or a team that deserves better leadership.