TheMn – Cloud Backend Engineer

📞 Contact Information

• Email: mahdinejad(dot)amirhossein(at)gmail(dot)com
• Location: Tehran, Iran
• Date of Birth: 29th of September 1997
• LinkedIn: amirhossein-mahdinejad
• GitHub: TheMn

💼 Work and Teaching Experiences

Backend Engineer - GamerTag.app (Malta - remote)

May 2023 – May 2025 (Full-time)

• Designed and implemented server-side solutions for a 10k+ user gamers’ social media platform in an AWS Serverless architecture.
• Utilized key AWS services including DynamoDB, Lambda, AppSync, Cognito, SQS, SNS, and S3.
• Developed GraphQL APIs for efficient data retrieval and integration with third-party APIs such as Algolia for search and GetStream for real-time activity feeds.
• Automated integration tests with Postman/Newman and integrated into Bitbucket pipelines.
• Participated in sprint planning and daily standups in a Scrum environment; maintained docs in Confluence and tracked tasks in Jira.

Skills: AWS, Node.js, Algolia, TypeScript, GraphQL, GetStream, Postman, CI/CD

Backend QA Engineer - MyDigipay (Tehran - onsite)

Feb 2023 - May 2023 (Full-time)

• Collaborated with backend financial services at a fin-tech company linked to Digikala Group.
• Developed data-driven tests in Node.js for backend operations with MongoDB.
• Automated REST API tests for third-party services (KYC, Digital Signature) using Postman/Newman.

Skills: API testing, JavaScript, Data-driven testing, CI/CD, NoSQL databases

Recommender Systems Researcher & Teaching Assistant - University of Tehran (Tehran - onsite)

Apr 2022 - Sep 2024 (Part-time)

• Recommender Systems Researcher: Working on hybrid algorithms based on matrix factorization.
• Teaching Assistant (Spring 2022): Assisted in Applied Machine Learning, mentoring students on Python packages like Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Scikit-learn.

Skills: Python, Evolutionary Algorithms, Recommender Systems, Linear Algebra

Django Developer & Computer Programming Teacher - Sampad (Tehran - onsite)

Aug 2018 - Jan 2023 (Part-time)

• Django Developer (Oct 2019 - Sep 2022): Collaborated on the project Allamehelli5.
• Computer Programming Teacher (Aug 2018 - Jan 2023): Taught algorithmic thinking and programming (C++, Python).
• Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (Sep 2019 - Jun 2022): Managed student research projects and organized monthly seminars with expert speakers.

Skills: C++, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Leadership, Teamwork

Python Developer - Rayka Software Consulting (Rasht - remote)

Aug 2019 - Sep 2020 (Part-time)
Worked as a data annotator, later contributing to natural language processing projects.

Skills: Python, NLP, Data Annotation

Backend Developer - Fekr-Afarinan (Tehran - onsite)

Nov 2016 - Mar 2018 (Part-time)
Developed educational Android and web applications using Django and PHP.

Skills: Python (Django), PHP, JavaScript, Bootstrap

💻 Competences

• Python: Used for ML algorithms and back-end web development with Django.
• Modern JS: Developed Google Apps Script applications for G Suite integration.
• C/C++: Preferred language for coding competitions and teaching.
• Git: Familiar with version control systems, maintaining multiple GitHub repositories.
• Linux: Proficient in terminal commands on Kubuntu, an Ubuntu-based distribution.
• LaTeX: Used for academic papers and this CV.

🚀 Projects

Allamehelli5 Website

Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Developed the back-end for a high school educational website. Added online tools (Adobe Connect, Moodle) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Skills: Python (Django), Bootstrap, SQLite

Feature Selection using Simulated Annealing

Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Implemented simulated annealing to select features from a heart disease dataset and predicted outcomes using supervised learning algorithms.

Skills: Python, Evolutionary Algorithms, Machine Learning

🎓 Education

University of Guilan

B.Sc in Computer Engineering (Sep 2016 - Sep 2020)

• Bachelor’s Project: Automatic extraction of metadata from scientific papers

Allamehelli5 High School

Diploma in Physics and Mathematics Discipline (Sep 2012 - Jun 2016)

🏆 Achievements

• 8th Place - 2019 ICPC Asia Tehran Regional Contest (Team: Estefaadeye Abzaari)
  Resulted in the University of Guilan increasing its competition team quota from one to three.

• 1st Place - both 2023 and 2025 Sharif Spaghetti Contests

• Best Teacher in the Artificial Intelligence Branch - 2023 Khwarizmi Youth Award (KYA)

🌍 Languages

• Persian: Native
• English: Fluent
• Italian: Elementary proficiency

🎤 Volunteering Experiences

• Executive Director - 2019 University of Guilan Programming Contest
• Host and Orator - 2019 University of Guilan Engineering Graduation Ceremony

📝 References

• Dr. Rooholah Abedian
  Assistant Professor, University of Tehran

• Dr. Abolghasem Mirroshandel
  Associate Professor, University of Guilan