$ 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.
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.