Est. 2014 — Portfolio of work
Istanbul · GMT+3

Reza Pirighadim

Senior AI Engineer & Backend Architect

I build scalable backends and production-grade agentic AI — systems that don't just demo well, they ship and stay up. Eleven years across crypto exchanges, marketplaces, accounting platforms, and now multi-agent AI.

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Now Senior AI Engineer
@ Jack Westin
Focus Agentic AI
LangGraph · MCP · RAG
Experience 11 years backend
9 companies shipped
Status ● Open to offers
Selective & remote
01About

A backend mind learning to think in agents.

I've spent eleven years writing the unglamorous half of software — the part that runs at 3 AM and doesn't make the front page. Order systems, identity services, exchange engines, billing, message queues. The infrastructure that lets the visible app exist.

Lately I've been turning that backend instinct toward agentic AI: multi-agent systems coordinated with LangGraph, retrieval pipelines that don't hallucinate, event-streamed orchestrators on Redis and SSE, and tool-using agents wired through the Model Context Protocol. The same questions still apply — is this observable, is this resumable, does it stay correct under load — they just have new answers.

I'm comfortable owning a system from architecture through production, and I've led teams as both a technical lead and a senior engineer at companies like Digikala, Wallex, and Holoo.

Portrait photograph of Reza Pirighadim, Senior AI Engineer and Backend Architect based in Istanbul
Reza Pirighadim
Istanbul · 2026
Fig. 01
11+
Years building
9
Companies shipped at
5
Agents in production
3
Continents · remote
02Experience

Eleven years, in chronological reverse.

  1. 2026 — Now2 months

    Senior AI Engineer

    Jack Westin · Remote · United States

    Building an AI-driven student assistant that answers course-specific questions with the precision a tutor would. Wired up RAG over the curriculum to keep hallucinations near zero, and iterate with the education team to keep responses pedagogically sound — not just technically correct.

    RAGLangGraphMCPPythonAgentic AI
  2. Dec 2025 — May 20266 months

    AI Engineer

    Alien Intellect · Remote · UAE

    Architected a production multi-agent system on a supervisor pattern — five specialized agents (Orchestrator, Knowledge, Developer, Operator, Generator) coordinating autonomous task execution. Real-time event streaming via Redis Streams & SSE, checkpoint-based persistence in Postgres, async pipeline on Celery, and human-in-the-loop interrupts so the system can pause, ask, and resume cleanly.

    LangGraphFastAPIRedis StreamsSSEPostgreSQLCeleryMCP
  3. Dec 2024 — Dec 20251 yr 1 mo

    Technical Lead

    DrBalcony · Remote · California

    Designed the enterprise user-management system that became the platform's central auth and authorization hub — every microservice talks to it for identity, permissions, and access control. Built to take enterprise-scale load while keeping inter-service comms fast and the security model fine-grained.

    MicroservicesLaravelGoSOAPHP
  4. Jun 2024 — Dec 20247 months

    Senior Software Engineer

    Digikala · Hybrid

    On the Pindo shop team: rewrote and optimized the seller-side delivery system, owned OMS messaging, and shipped the integrated digital wallet. Crossed teams to plug into the AI org's image-search system for ad creation — bridging traditional e-commerce ops with newer AI capabilities.

    PHPPythonAPI DesignPerf Optimization
  5. Jun 2022 — Jun 20242 yrs 1 mo

    Senior Backend Developer

    Wallex · Hybrid · Crypto Exchange

    Built secure, high-throughput trading paths for a major crypto exchange. Sped up order execution, led Exchange and Onboarding initiatives, and rebuilt the registration flow that drove a measurable lift in user acquisition. Ops-grade work — every millisecond and every error counted.

    GoLaravelDockerKubernetesDB Optimization
  6. Nov 2019 — Sep 20222 yrs 11 mos

    Technical Team Lead · Senior Backend Developer

    Holoo Software · Tehran

    Led teams architecting accounting and ERP applications used by thousands of Iranian businesses. Set the technical direction, mentored engineers, and owned the backend architecture end-to-end — performance, DB design, and the integrations that kept front-end and back-end in sync.

    MicroservicesPHPLaravelMySQLDockerLAMP
  7. Oct 2016 — Nov 20182 yrs 2 mos

    Technical Lead · Senior Backend Developer

    Arad Data · Tehran

    Owned server-side architecture for the company's product line. Mentored the engineering team, drove agile delivery, and aligned technical decisions with business goals — the kind of work that makes a stack maintainable for the team that inherits it.

    PostgreSQLLaravelPHPAPI Design
  8. 2017Earlier roles

    PHP Developer · Junior Roles

    Digighesti · uncox · hipotrip · Tehran

    The first chapters — small product teams, fast shipping, learning what production really meant. Where the instinct for backend rigor started.

    PHPMySQLREST
03Stack

Tools I reach for without thinking.

// Agentic AI

  • LangGraph production
  • Model Context Protocol production
  • RAG & retrieval pipelines production
  • Multi-agent supervisors production
  • Prompt engineering daily
  • Structured outputs / tools daily

// Backend

  • Python · FastAPI daily
  • Go production
  • PHP · Laravel 10+ yrs
  • Microservices · SOA architect
  • REST & API design daily
  • Performance optimization specialty

// Infrastructure

  • PostgreSQL · MySQL deep
  • Redis · Redis Streams production
  • Celery · async pipelines production
  • Docker · Kubernetes production
  • Server-Sent Events production
  • Checkpoint persistence production
04Contact

Got a hard backend problem or an agent to ship?

Pick the channel that suits you. I read everything, and respond within a day or two — usually faster if the work is interesting.

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