Technical
- Distributed systems
- High availability
- Microservices
- Event-driven systems
- Kubernetes
- Service mesh
- Infrastructure as Code
- Observability & SRE
- AI-first development
- Elixir
- Python
- Go
- Cassandra
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kafka
Ali Rajabi
Staff Engineer & Engineering Manager
Engineering leader with 10+ years architecting distributed systems for 50M+ users. I build Kubernetes platforms and observability stacks, drive AI-first engineering as Engineering Productivity Team Lead, and lead teams that ship reliably at scale.
Profile
Technical & leadership
Technical
Leadership
- Engineering Productivity Team Lead — founded the chapter
- Director of Engineering & Technical Team Leader — Infrastructure Tribe
- Staff-level influence across product tribes
- Mentor engineers and turn ambiguous goals into shippable plans
Experience
Roles by company
Cafe Bazaar
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Staff Engineer
TechnicalCross-tribe Staff Engineer: architecture, tech standards, and reliability direction across product tribes.
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Engineering Productivity Team Lead
LeadershipFounded the Eng Productivity chapter — AI-first development, developer experience, and user-perceived reliability.
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Technical Team Leader & Director of Engineering — Infrastructure Tribe
LeadershipLed the infrastructure tribe: grew the team 2→7, cut infra cost ~30%, drove Kubernetes & service-mesh adoption at marketplace scale.
Divar
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Senior Platform Engineer
TechnicalBare-metal Kubernetes at 100K+ RPS, IaC, service mesh, cross-DC connectivity — plus SRE-scale observability (VictoriaMetrics, SLO/SLA, high-scale Sentry).
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Technical Team Leader
LeadershipLed the platform team: on-call/SRE practices, onboarding, ownership rotation, and higher delivery velocity.
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Senior Software Developer
TechnicalBuilt Divar’s high-throughput chat platform (Elixir + Cassandra) — millions of users/messages daily at 99.99% uptime.
Adad Cafe Bazaar
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Software Engineer
TechnicalMobile advertising platform: video ad tracking, rich media ads, targeting, and server throughput optimization.
Web Sepanta
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Junior → Senior Web Developer
TechnicalEnterprise web apps and framework/platform work that sped delivery across many customer portals.
Highlights
Strengths
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AI engineering
Design and run org-wide AI-first programs — adoption, governance, tooling resilience, and measuring real productivity gains.
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Staff-level technical leadership
Set architecture direction, standards, and tech-debt strategy across multiple product tribes as a trusted technical authority.
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Senior platform engineering & SRE
Operate Kubernetes and infra at very high load, with SRE-grade observability, SLO/SLA practice, and resilient service platforms.
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Engineering productivity
Build the function from scratch and raise delivery performance with DORA, SPACE, and DX Core 4 — paved roads, CI/CD, and developer experience.
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Infrastructure leadership
Grow infra/platform teams, cut cost without breaking reliability, and lead large platform transformations (Kubernetes, service mesh, HA data stores).
Contact
Let’s talk
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