Available · Backend & Cloud Engineer
Ali Pourrahim

Ali Pourrahim Backend & Cloud Engineer

I build scalable backend systems that reduce manual work and handle real-world workloads — from distributed job schedulers to AI-powered automation, deployed in production.

2K+
Users Served
16+
Shipped Projects
4+
Production Roles

Work That Shipped

Production systems, real users, measurable outcomes

Software Developer – AIM Learning Project

Centria University of Applied Sciences · Contract

Oct 2025 – Dec 2025

Sole developer on the Reading Diploma (Lukudiplomi) platform — full-stack system now used by 2,000+ students at Centria AMK. Designed the data model, built the API, and delivered production in 10 weeks. Also produced 150+ 3D interactive learning objects integrated into the platform.

Full-Stack JavaScript Node.js PostgreSQL

Full Stack Engineer

Peero Ab · Internship

Jul 2025 – Aug 2025

Shipped bug fixes and features in a live SaaS product with real users. Worked directly in the production Node.js/PostgreSQL codebase — no sandbox, no toy tasks. Identified and patched performance regressions that improved response times for end users.

Node.js PostgreSQL Full-Stack SaaS

Back-end Developer

TechNova · Internship

Jan 2025 – May 2025

Designed and built REST APIs in Python (Django/FastAPI) integrated with the Solar project infrastructure in Warsaw. Owned the full backend lifecycle — schema design, endpoint architecture, security, and deployment. APIs remain in active use.

Python Django FastAPI REST API

Frontend Developer

PatternAdventure · Freelance

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

Rebuilt a Shopify storefront end-to-end — custom theme, responsive UI, and backend service integrations. Delivered remotely as a solo contractor, managing scope, client communication, and technical execution independently.

JavaScript Shopify Frontend E-commerce

Systems I've Built

Each project solves a real problem — architecture decisions included

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Backend

Streaming Data Pipeline

High-throughput event stream processing with zero message loss. Built a fault-tolerant Go pipeline handling real-time ingestion, transformation, and routing — reducing processing latency by 60%.

GoStreamingData Engineering
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DevOps

Observability Platform

Unified metrics, logs, and tracing for distributed systems. Built in Go to surface actionable insights and cut mean time-to-debug from hours to minutes across microservices.

GoMonitoringCloud
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DevOps

PipelineGuard

Automated CI/CD security scanner catching misconfigurations and policy violations before they ship. Prevents vulnerable builds from reaching production with zero false positives.

PythonSecurityCI/CD
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AI

Agentic AI Linux Management

Self-healing Linux agent that monitors, diagnoses, and resolves system issues autonomously — eliminating manual sysadmin toil for routine incidents through AI-driven decision loops.

PythonAI AgentsLinux
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AI

Codebase Intelligence

AI-driven codebase analysis. Understands repo structure, answers questions about code, and generates insights at scale.

PythonAI/LLMAnalysis
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Backend

Distributed Job Scheduler

Distributed scheduling system with worker coordination, task queuing, and failure recovery across multiple nodes.

GoBackendScheduling
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NLP

Finnish NLP Toolkit API

Production REST API for Finnish morphological analysis — tokenization, lemmatization, and compound word splitting. Solves the scarcity of Finnish NLP tooling with a fast, developer-friendly interface.

PythonFastAPINLP
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Cloud

Multi-Tenancy Kubernetes

Multi-tenant K8s infrastructure with namespace isolation, RBAC policies, and automated provisioning scripts.

ShellKubernetesCloud
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ML/AI

Student Retention Prediction

ML system predicting student dropout risk with feature engineering, model training, and interpretable predictions.

PythonML/AIData Science
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Backend

Maze Solution API

Pathfinding API in Go. RESTful endpoints for solving mazes using BFS, DFS, and A* algorithms with visual output.

GoAlgorithmsREST API
Data

Fingrid Dashboard

Real-time electricity grid monitoring dashboard integrating the Fingrid open API for live energy data visualization.

PythonAPI IntegrationReal-time
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NLP

Sentiment & Dialect Detection

Multi-class NLP classifier for sentiment analysis and Arabic dialect detection with full preprocessing pipelines.

PythonNLPClassification

Certifications & Skills

Professional certifications and technical expertise

AWS Certifications

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cloud Infrastructure

CCNA Cyber Ops

Cisco

Networking Security

Finnish Language

Centria University

Multilingual Communication

Research Skills

Academic Training

C# Analysis

What I Work With

Tools I've used in production — not just tutorials

Backend Development

Shipped APIs in Python and Go that handle concurrent workloads, async queues, and complex business logic — designed to scale beyond the first thousand users.

Python Go FastAPI Django Node.js
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Cloud Infrastructure

Deployed containerized services on AWS and managed multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with RBAC isolation, auto-provisioning, and real infrastructure-as-code workflows.

AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform
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Data & NLP

Built production NLP pipelines for Finnish and Arabic — morphological analysis, sentiment classification, dialect detection — with real preprocessing, not demo notebooks.

NLP ML/AI Data Processing Analytics

Multilingual

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Azerbaijani

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Persian

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English

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Turkish

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Swedish

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Finnish

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French

Let's Build Something Real

Open to Backend Engineer, Cloud Engineer, and API Developer roles

Available for Work

I'm actively looking for new opportunities. Whether you have a question, a project, or just want to say hi — my inbox is open.