Amir Karimi
Senior Software Engineer at Mercor
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAmir Karimi is a Senior Software Engineer based in Dubai with eight years of experience designing and operating resilient, scalable backend systems. He has led architecture and service ownership roles across startups and high-growth teams, delivering fault-tolerant Kafka-based platforms on AWS and achieving sub-99.99% delivery and tight uptime SLOs. Amir has a strong track record optimizing resource usage—reducing CPU, memory, and disk footprints through targeted tuning of Postgres, Kafka, and microservices—and building multi-agent automation that cut manual review by 70%. He also codified hiring and interview processes, running 54 technical interviews to scale teams effectively. An open-source enthusiast and recent Queen’s University CS master’s student, he combines academic rigor with hands-on production experience in observability, service mesh refactors, and large-scale data crawling. Notably, he has driven projects that processed millions of ad posts and engineered integrations with major MCP services like Sentry, Notion, and Google.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of IsfahanMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Queen's University
English, Persian
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Github Skills (127)
postgresql10
python10
django-framework10
databases10
semantic-search10
telegram10
gpt4all10
django10
persian10
formatter10
ai10
telegram-bot10
golang10
singlestore10
database10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AMK9978/AMK9978
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
AMK9978/ProgrammingProblems
Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
Our answers to some programming problems,like ACM ICPC problems and others.(All problems are available on http://uva.onlinejudge.org or https://open.kattis.com) ** PLEASE STAR THE REPO IF IT 'S USEFUL :) **
Contributions:7 reviews, 118 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 9 months
kattis-solutionsuva-online-judgeproblemsuvaopen-kattis
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