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Parham Askarzadeh

Platform Engineer

I build platform capabilities that turn infrastructure into a strategic advantage.

Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience leading teams, designing high-availability systems, and delivering automation that drives measurable growth.

Building platforms that scale with the business.
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Platform Leadership
Team & System Ownership

Led platform initiatives from architecture to production operations.

Reliability Engineering
SLO-Driven Systems

Designed resilient infrastructure with strong observability and incident practices.

Operational Leverage
Automation & Scale

Built internal platforms that reduce friction and accelerate engineering velocity.

Profile

About

Platform Engineer with a strong Python background, focused on building reliable, scalable systems that directly support business growth. I work at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, and product strategy — ensuring platforms are not only stable, but enable faster iteration, better decision-making, and operational efficiency.

  • Align platform decisions with measurable business outcomes.
  • Design systems for scale, failure tolerance, and recovery.
  • Invest in automation to unlock team velocity.
  • Bridge engineering execution with product and stakeholder priorities.
Core Focus
Platform Strategy
Reliability & Observability
Automation & Scale

Resume

Platform Engineer focused on building resilient systems and internal platforms that increase organizational leverage and long-term scalability.

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Education

Sharif University of Technology

B.S. in Computer Engineering

2018 — 2023
  • Teaching Assistant for Python Programming, Advanced Java, Software Engineering, and Linear Algebra.
  • Ranked #375 globally in QS World University Rankings 2026.

Experience

Independent Startup Project

Technical Product Manager & Team Lead

2023 — 2024
Tehran, Iran
  • Led a 5-member cross-functional team and managed the product lifecycle from ideation to delivery using Agile practices.
  • Coordinated with stakeholders to prioritize features and deliver scalable, reliable solutions aligned with business goals.

Maktabkhooneh

Site Reliability Engineer & Platform Team Lead

Jan 2024 — Present
Tehran, Iran
  • Promoted to lead Platform team; partnered with product and business to deliver scalable infrastructure supporting company growth.
  • Led development of automated course production pipeline (foreign course ingestion + subtitle generation), expanding catalog size and boosting revenue.
  • Built AI-driven internal platforms for comment moderation, support workflows, and automated grading.
  • Designed and optimized Airflow-based video processing pipelines, improving throughput by 25–30%.
  • Owned production reliability with Nginx, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Netdata, Sentry), security hardening (Fail2Ban), automated backups (Borgmatic, Rclone), CI/CD, and blameless post-mortems.

Lifeweb Co

Data Engineer & Python Developer

Jan 2021 — Dec 2023
Tehran, Iran
  • Designed ETL pipelines with Spark, Airflow, NiFi, Kafka, and RabbitMQ for large-scale real-time data processing.
  • Improved ingestion speed by 50% while maintaining 99%+ data accuracy.
  • Built production-grade Python crawlers (Scrapy, Selenium, Regex) for Twitter, TSETMC, Sahamyab, Rahavard365, Codal, IRNA, and YJC with robust rate limiting and data integrity.
  • Delivered dockerized Flask REST APIs and managed MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch clusters for client-facing analytics.
  • Implemented monitoring, validation, and automation to increase reliability and reduce downtime.

Rahnema College

Machine Learning Intern

May 2023 — Sep 2023
Tehran, Iran
  • Developed end-to-end demand and driver supply forecasting system for an online ride-hailing application.
  • Owned EDA, feature engineering, model selection, and implementation using Python, pandas, and scikit-learn.

Technical Skills

Programming
Python
Frameworks & Backend
DjangoFlaskFastAPI
DevOps & Infrastructure
DockerNginxCI/CDGitServer HardeningBorgmaticRclone
Data & Streaming
AirflowKafkaRabbitMQSparkHadoopNiFiLogstash
Crawling & Scraping
ScrapySeleniumRegex
Databases & Storage
PostgreSQLMongoDBElasticsearchAWS S3
Monitoring & Observability
PrometheusGrafanaLokiNetdataSentry
Reliability
SLO/SLA ManagementIncident Response
Leadership & Professional
Team Leadership & MentorshipCross-Functional CollaborationStakeholder Management & NegotiationProduct Management & Agile/ScrumProblem Solving & Critical Thinking

Contact

Open to platform leadership roles and collaborations focused on scalable infrastructure and product growth.