Platform Engineering Lead | Fintech Infrastructure & Technical Delivery

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Professional Summary

Engineering leader with 20+ years across fintech infrastructure, distributed backend systems, platform architecture, and technical delivery.

Experienced in leading engineering teams, building scalable backend platforms, banking and payment integrations, and driving delivery from architecture through production operations.

AI-native in daily engineering work—uses modern AI coding assistants effectively to build better products faster while maintaining architecture discipline and code review standards.

Professional Experience

Co-Founder | TEA Assist AI

Kuwait (Remote) | Jul 2026 – Present

Co-founding an AI-native product discovery platform (asktea.ai) launching in Kuwait: shoppers find products by chatting in natural language and receive instant answers with product recommendations and smart filters, while merchants automatically get trilingual (AR/EN/FA) AI-generated product descriptions and richer catalogs with minimal effort.

Architected the core as a vertical-agnostic “Product Graph” engine—product types, attributes, categories, and brands are fully data-driven and configurable, enabling the same engine to be re-platformed onto any industry (fashion, electronics, automotive, real estate, and beyond) without code changes.

Delivered RAG-based conversational search and automated descriptions by orchestrating LLM providers (DeepSeek V4 Flash via OpenCode Zen; GPT-4o-mini, Claude, Gemini via OpenRouter) with Fernet-encrypted API-key management and runtime model switching, plus hybrid vector search (Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B into Qdrant) with bilingual payloads and filtered/unfiltered fallback.

Shipped the platform on a single-node Docker Swarm cluster (PostgreSQL 16, Redis 7, RabbitMQ, MinIO, Grafana/Loki observability, Caddy/Cloudflare TLS) with GitHub Actions CI/CD and 900+ tests across 5 microservices.

Head of Platform Engineering | Finowin

Tehran, Iran (Remote) | Dec 2025 – May 2026

Directed an ~8-person cross-functional squad on a greenfield microservices platform—architecture and services designed from day one with no prior codebase.

Led architecture and delivery across 6+ integration domains (banking/Jibit, USDT swap via Bitpin, 200 Card, identity inquiry, notifications/SMS, internal financial services) with B2B/B2C API surfaces, structured logging, and request tracing.

Designed operationally resilient wallet and reconciliation systems for high-integrity financial workflows across B2B-weighted monetary operations.

Onboarded 13 enterprise clients in pilot; owned multi-surface API strategy (B2B, B2C, backoffice) with OpenAPI/Swagger, deployment health/version endpoints, and operator-facing API export tooling.

Mentored engineers and established delivery standards—CI/CD, code review, automated testing (unit, integration, e2e), Docker-based deployments, staging/production health checks, and Artillery performance testing.

Co-Founder & Founding CTO | Paidar

Tehran, Iran | Apr 2025 – Nov 2025

Co-founded and led a ~10-person team; owned hiring, technical roadmap, sprint delivery, CI/CD, and production operations for a non-custodial wallet and wealth PWA.

Built multi-chain non-custodial wallet infrastructure with on-chain send/receive, swap integrations, and transaction workflows across Tron, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Bitcoin (Node.js/NestJS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL).

Delivered user authentication, admin backoffice, and operational monitoring/alerting for the React PWA; paidaran.com.

Platform Engineer (Contract, Solo) | WhatsApp Aggregator

Turkey (Remote) | Nov 2024 – Jul 2025

Built high-volume WhatsApp ingestion and operator tooling processing ~10k–12k messages/day (month-one peak) with automated support-ticket routing (~500–700 tickets/day) and internal analytics workflows.

Delivered async message pipelines, operator dashboards, and classification workflows for support automation at scale.

Engineering Lead — Backend & Integrations | Goodfox

Germany (Remote) | Jan 2023 – Dec 2024

Led backend engineering in a ~4-person team on NestJS/Node.js services with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and async job queues; scaled the loyalty platform to ~200 merchants and ~5,000 users.

Designed loyalty points/rewards engine, merchant APIs and dashboards, QR redemption flows, and payment gateway/POS integrations (App Store / Google Play).

Engineering Lead (Part-time) | Saleminz

Oct 2023 – Apr 2024

Directed backend platform delivery for a sports and wellness product (streaming, courses, nutrition); Saleminz PWA.

Other Engineering Roles | 2019 – 2023

Hanotec — Backend & Integration Lead (Remote)

Discount-platform backend and e-commerce migrations (Magento, WooCommerce, WordPress).

GolfamSafar — Backend & Integrations Engineer

Supplier-integration workflows across travel providers and admin tooling for tours and flights.

Earlier Experience — Payments & Fintech Infrastructure

POS, Acquiring & Banking Systems | 2005 – 2018

Payments Infrastructure Lead | Pardakht Novine Ariyan | 2007–2012

Led POS/switch programmes, NOC/agent operations, S2M migration, and kiosk/monitoring platforms.

Payments & Infrastructure Specialist | Samanehaye Hooshmande Totan

DEPA rollout and monitoring (Iran Insurance, Iran Khodro, Bourse); bank CRM; Active Directory and core network services.

Payments & POS Engineer | Adtech

Worked on Android POS (Java), POS bridge (C#), TMS/key-injection tooling, and related payment infrastructure.

Technical Expert | Infotech International

Core banking implementation support and related technical activities.

Core Skills

Platform & Architecture

Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, microservices, REST/OpenAPI

Backend

Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript

Fintech

Wallet and ledger systems, payment and banking integrations, reconciliation, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ

Operations

CI/CD, Docker, Jest, Artillery, structured logging, request tracing, health endpoints, technical leadership

AI-Assisted Development

AI-native workflow; effective use of modern coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, and similar tools) to accelerate delivery, improve product quality, and iterate faster.

Education & Languages

B.Sc. Software Engineering
Islamic Azad University, Tehran South Branch (2008)

Persian: Native

English: Professional working proficiency