Amir Karimi
Fractional Head Of Engineering For Early-stage Startups at Self-employed
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAmir Karimi is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on software delivery, currently serving as a fractional Head of Engineering for early-stage startups in Vancouver. He blends deep systems and cloud expertise—from re-architecting petabyte-scale data pipelines at Amazon to building high-throughput microservices and SRE practices for Disney Streaming—with practical startup savvy gained as an independent consultant. Amir excels at rapidly turning scrappy teams into reliable delivery engines: he has led migrations to multi-region AWS, implemented scalable client-initiated networking layers to slash onboarding time, and cut complex job fleets into single streamlined pipelines. He mentors and scales teams, runs technical hiring and architecture, and acts as an effective liaison between founders and overseas engineering partners. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he enhanced core functionality in the popular OpenFaaS faas-cli by adding robust store and deploy features. His combination of enterprise-grade reliability work and founder-facing, hands-on execution makes him a pragmatic choice for startups needing both architecture and delivery muscle.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Software Engineering, BSc Computer Software Engineering at Azad University (IAU)2 Years College Computer Software, 2 Years College Computer Software at Elmi-Karbordi University
Persian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
golang10
command-line-interface10
go10
cli10
dockers9
docker9
templating8
vbnet6
asp-net6
winforms6
exceptions6
linq-to-entities6
visual-studio6
scala6
java6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openfaas/faas-cli
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Official CLI for OpenFaaS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Amir primarily focused on enhancing the `faas-cli` tool, contributing to store sub-commands. Their work involved implementing store functionalities, including listing, inspecting, and deploying functions from the store. They added features like a verbose flag, optimized output to use buffers, and fixed issues related to deploy flags, as well as cleaning up the code. The user's changes added key enhancements to the store command functionality of the `faas-cli`.
golanglambdapythonfaas-clitemplating
amirkarimi/amirkarimi.github.io
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:100 commits, 168 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 4 months
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