Summary
Amir Abdolkhalegh is a senior software engineer and technical leader based in the Netherlands with over 11 years of hands-on experience delivering scalable, cloud-native systems across startups and large enterprises. He excels at aligning engineering strategy with business goals, having driven architecture and team growth from founding engineering squads to leading cross-functional teams of 100+ people. Proficient in Golang, Rust, Python and modern data stacks, he built real-time systems and microservices—such as a Golang/GraphQL chat for Instruqt and a Kafka-backed DLP platform—focused on reliability and measurable business impact. His background spans the full lifecycle from legacy modernization that doubled sales to aviation systems that cut costs by 40%, reflecting a talent for translating messy requirements into elegant, production-grade solutions. A pragmatic tinkerer, he frequently switches paradigms (OO vs functional) and languages to find the right tool for the problem, and champions infrastructure-as-code and observability to accelerate delivery. Colleagues rely on him to cut through complexity and own outcomes from design to deployment.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Shamsipour Technical and Vocational College
English, Persian