Ali Omidian | علی امیدیان | CTO, Backend & Platform Engineer

$ cat platform-scale.txt

Current scope / Badesaba

10M+

monthly active users

~1.5B

requests per month

6

engineering disciplines

Technical direction across Backend, Frontend, SRE, Android, iOS, and QA.

Career path/

Ali Omidian / Engineering, reliability, and technical leadership

2016 / present

ali@omidian:~/career$ cat progression.log

Full-Stack Engineer
Backend Engineer
Backend Team Lead
SRE Team Lead
promote: CTO: Permission denied

ali@omidian:~/career$ sudo promote --role cto

CTO / Technical Director← current

More responsibility. Same curiosity.

Career path, most recent role first. Expand a role to read its responsibilities. Dates show company tenure, not dates of individual roles.
Company tenure	Company	Role / expand to read	Focus
2019 / present	Badesaba	CTO / Technical Director Lead technology strategy and engineering execution across Backend, Frontend, SRE, Android, iOS, and QA. Modernize legacy systems through incremental migrations, pilot rollouts, observability, and rollback planning. Build teams through hiring, mentoring, growth plans, and clear operational ownership. Coordinate Pardeabi VOD and iOS delivery modernization. Introduce AI-assisted code review and MCP-based engineering-health reporting.	Technology strategy & engineering executionCurrent role
2019 / present	Badesaba	SRE Team Lead Helped establish SRE as a dedicated function, separating reliability and infrastructure ownership from Backend. Built observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, and Sentry. Coordinated production incidents, root-cause analysis, and improvements. Launched the initial self-hosted Kubernetes path.	Reliability & operational ownership
2019 / present	Badesaba	Backend Team Lead Grew into technical leadership through code review, mentoring, knowledge transfer, and production problem-solving. Handled deployment and server operations before SRE became a separate function.	Code review & team development
2019 / present	Badesaba	Backend Engineer Built Node.js microservices across payments, subscriptions, support, and core product capabilities. Reverse-engineered undocumented legacy services and resolved production incidents. Improved provider integrations, retry and timeout handling, failure recovery, and monitoring across payment flows.	Microservices & payment systems
2019 / present	Badesaba	Full-Stack Engineer Delivered features from requirements and technical design through frontend and backend implementation, deployment, and production support. Worked directly with product stakeholders in a small engineering team, building broad knowledge of system dependencies.	End-to-end product delivery
2016 / 2019	Pardikan Sarv	Software Engineer / Frontend Team Lead Grew from Angular development into Node.js backend ownership and helped lead a five-person frontend team. Built a pharmaceutical information-exchange PWA. Supported the team through code reviews, mentoring, technical problem-solving, and knowledge transfer.	Angular, Node.js & team growth

Most recent role first

Dates show company tenure. Individual promotion dates are not listed.

Beyond the org/

Ventures & consulting

Hamhesabi

Co-founder / Product & Engineering

Product definition, technical decisions, backend development, and delivery with a small founding team.

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Independent consulting

2019 / present

Hands-on engineering, architecture reviews, and mentoring across e-commerce, education, and healthcare.

Working knowledge/

Tools follow the problem

01 / Leadership: Technical strategy, hiring, mentoring, technical roadmaps, cross-functional delivery
02 / Architecture: Distributed systems, microservices, legacy modernization, payment systems, API design
03 / Reliability: Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
04 / Backend & data: Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, Golang, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, NATS, RabbitMQ