Summary
Afshin Rudgar is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Dublin with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable, production-grade systems and leading engineering teams. Currently at Udemy, he shapes technical strategy and mentors cross-functional teams to improve developer experience and architecture reliability. Previously as CTO and Head of Infrastructure at Yektanet, he led a re-architecture, introduced data platforms (Spark, HDFS, Kafka-Connect) and established security engineering and CI/CD practices that reduced friction across teams. He combines deep backend and infrastructure expertise with a product-minded approach, having implemented high-throughput event pipelines and microservices for advertising and analytics at scale. Colleagues know him for translating operational complexity into pragmatic tooling and developer-facing solutions while running regular knowledge-sharing initiatives.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Hardware Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Hardware Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology
English, Persian