Portrait of Ali Zohrevand
Remote · Istanbul, Turkey

Full-Stack Engineer

Ali
Zohrevand

I design and ship scalable, event-driven backends in Go, PHP & NestJS — and deploy them across AWS, GCP and Azure.

Husband & proud father of three.

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  • Golang
  • PHP
  • NestJS
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • gRPC
  • Docker
7+
Years of experience
3M+
Records optimized
1K/min
Peak orders processed
IEEE
Published author, 2025
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About

Passionate full-stack developer with 7+ years building high-performance web applications. I specialize in backend engineering with Golang and PHP, front-end work with React, and cloud deployment on AWS, GCP and Azure. I've integrated complex systems end-to-end — wallets, eSIM provisioning, payments, messaging — and led teams across every stage of the software lifecycle.

Based inIstanbul, Turkey
WorksRemote, global teams
FocusBackend · Cloud · APIs
LanguagesPersian (native) · English (professional)
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Skills & Expertise

Languages

GolangPHP JavaScriptTypeScript HTMLCSS

Frameworks & Tools

NestJSReact AngularGraphQL gRPCGit

Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDB MySQLRedis

Cloud & DevOps

AWSGCP AzureDocker CI/CD

APIs & Integrations

RESTStripe TwilioShopify Telna eSIM

Practice

System ArchitectureTeam Leadership AgileCode Review
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Experience

Jun 2024 — Present

Qrispy

Remote · United Kingdom

Backend Engineer

  • Designed and shipped event-driven wallet & eSIM provisioning services in NestJS + PostgreSQL.
  • Integrated Twilio Programmable Voice/SMS and Telna eSIM APIs into the platform.
NestJSPostgreSQL Event-DrivenTwilioeSIM
Oct 2021 — Present

SubmitApp

Remote · Canada

Senior Backend Engineer

  • Built and maintained the backend of a platform managing applications, students and schools.
  • Implemented RESTful APIs and used PostgreSQL to store large volumes of application data.
  • Improved performance and scalability through code optimization and caching.
  • Led code reviews and launched the Shopify store “Odin” with a custom theme and sections.
GolangPostgreSQL RESTShopifyCaching
Feb 2023 — Aug 2023

Viven Inc

Remote · Japan

Backend Engineer

  • Built the Kaiyo Academy restaurant-ordering platform APIs in Go + gRPC; processed a peak of 1K orders per minute.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps, cutting the release cycle from weekly to daily.
GolanggRPC Azure DevOpsCI/CD
Oct 2019 — Present

GivingForward

Remote · United States

Volunteer Full-Stack Developer

  • Built the GoodPic donation platform with Stripe payments in PHP.
  • Designed a marketing CMS with HubSpot CRM sync (PHP + MySQL).
  • Led a cause-marketing platform in Golang on GCP with a React admin dashboard.
  • Optimized a MongoDB database of 3M+ records and shipped a Chrome extension.
GolangPHP GCPMongoDB ReactStripe
Feb 2019 — Oct 2021

Securities & Exchange Organization of Iran

Tehran, Iran

IT Project Manager

  • Led a 12-member team delivering an Anti-Money-Laundering system covering 50+ brokerage firms, cutting suspicious-activity detection time by 80%.
  • Directed the public portal's migration to a micro-frontend architecture serving 5M monthly visits.
Team LeadershipAML Micro-frontendsSystem Design
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Selected Work

Qrispy — Wallet & eSIM

Event-driven wallet and eSIM provisioning services with integrated voice, SMS and carrier APIs.

NestJSPostgreSQL TwilioTelna eSIM

Kaiyo Academy

Restaurant-ordering platform APIs in Go + gRPC, engineered to sustain a peak of 1K orders per minute, with daily releases via Azure DevOps.

GolanggRPC Azure DevOps

GoodPic Donations

Donation platform built in PHP with Stripe payment processing for seamless, secure giving.

PHPStripe Payments

GivingForward CMS

Cause-marketing platform and CMS with HubSpot CRM sync, a Golang core on GCP, and a 3M+ record MongoDB store.

GolangGCP MongoDBHubSpot

SubmitApp Platform

Backend for an education platform managing applications, students and schools — secure document storage and complex data relationships.

GolangPostgreSQL Cloud Storage

Remote Delivery

7+ years delivering for teams across the UK, Canada, Japan and the US — async communication, cross-timezone collaboration and independent ownership.

AsyncCross-timezone Ownership
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Research & Publication

IEEE · Apr 2025

Optimized Multi-Label Human Activity Recognition with Focal Loss and Attention-Enhanced LSTM Networks

Published with the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The work pairs focal loss with attention-enhanced LSTM networks for multi-label human-activity recognition on the UCSD ExtraSensory dataset.

Machine LearningLSTM AttentionFocal LossPython
Read on IEEE Xplore
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Recommendations

I highly recommend Ali for a Full-Stack Developer role. His expertise in API development is remarkable, consistently delivering efficient solutions. Ali's self-motivation stands out — he proactively tackles challenges and drives projects to completion with minimal oversight.

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Shintaro Yoshida

AWS Cloud Engineer

Ali was one of our first hires, and his expertise and commitment to self-improvement significantly contributed to the project's success. His technical skills, combined with his respectful attitude and solution-focused mindset, made him an invaluable team member.

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Kivanc Gultekin

Former VP of Product & CEO, SubmitApp

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Education

  • M.Sc. Computer Software Engineering
    Islamic Azad University, North Tehran
    2014 — 2017
  • B.Sc. Computer Hardware Engineering
    K.N. Toosi University of Technology
    2008 — 2013
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Beyond Code

Family

A devoted husband and proud father of three. Family is what gives purpose and balance to everything I build.

Husband Father of three

Equestrian

A dedicated horseback rider — finding focus and calm in the connection with these remarkable animals.

Horseback Riding

Let's build something

Open to remote backend & full-stack work.

Have a role, a project, or just want to talk Go and distributed systems? I'd love to hear from you.

zohrevand.alii@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/ali-zohrevand github.com/ali-zohrevand