Mehrdad Esmaeilpour

Mehrdad Esmaeilpour

Engineering Manager

Engineering manager with more than nine years in software engineering, focused on cloud infrastructure, high-availability systems, and team leadership. I scale cross-functional teams, run SRE and development operations, and deliver infrastructure products, with a focus on technical strategy, performance, and engineering ownership.

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Work Experience

  • June 2023 – Present

    ArvanCloud

    Engineering Manager
    • Led a 25-member cross-functional team across SRE, Systems, and Interface, driving development and maintenance of CDN products.
    • Directed technical operations that maintained a 99.99% uptime SLA for the core CDN infrastructure.
    • Took an Edge Computing product from conception through launch.
    • Managed end-to-end deployment, integration, and delivery of white-label projects for enterprise clients.
    • Developed a custom Terraform provider for infrastructure automation and deployment.
    • Managed technical debt and update strategies for legacy projects so reliability and new work could continue together.
    • Ran regular 1-on-1s, handled team conflicts, and aligned team OKRs with business goals.
  • March 2021 – May 2023

    ArvanCloud

    Software Development Team Lead & Software Engineer

    Promoted to Team Lead in October 2021.

    • Led an 8-member backend team on CDN API and panel services with PHP/Laravel and Golang/Gin.
    • Architected and rewrote the nameserver check system, eliminating incidents and improving reliability.
    • Redesigned the user usage reporting system. It ran incident-free for four years and stayed easy to extend with new metrics.
    • Streamlined CI/CD, put test and deployment protocols in place, and introduced a standard merge review template.
    • Built onboarding plans and developed the team through mentoring and performance evaluations.
  • March 2022 – August 2022

    Tojaareh

    Chief Technology Officer
    • Set the software architecture and tech stack for a scalable startup.
    • Built a technical team — frontend, backend, Android, and a scrum master — within six months.
  • October 2019 – March 2021

    Respina Networks and beyond

    R&D Software Engineer
    • Designed a high-availability architecture for rating and billing, including OCS systems with Python, Redis, and MySQL.
    • Built a Go/MongoDB file service and an MFA microservice with Go, PostgreSQL, and Gin.
  • 2019

    Sepehr Mahan Tech

    Scrum Master & Backend Developer
  • 2018 – 2019

    CERT, Guilan University

    R&D Software Engineer & Researcher
  • 2015 – 2019

    Fatasan

    Full Stack Developer
  • 2014 – 2018

    Ponisha – Parscoders

    Freelance Web/Software Developer

Education

  • 2011 – 2015

    B.Sc. in Software Engineering

    Guilan University, Rasht, Iran

    September 2011 – July 2015

Skills

Leadership & Methodology

Team Management, Team Topologies, System Design, Software Architecture, Microservices, Agile, OKR Alignment, Performance Evaluation, Project Management

Languages & Frameworks

Go, Python, PHP, Django, Laravel

Infrastructure & DevOps

Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, Terraform

Databases

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis