Mehdi Khoshnoodi
Software Engineer at Vianawork
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolMehdi Khoshnoodi is a software engineer and startup founder with 12 years of experience building scalable infrastructure, search systems, and developer tooling across product and platform teams. He has led engineering organizations from hands-on implementation to director-level scaling—growing a core tribe from 20 to 50+ engineers and steering large migrations, while also architecting and improving performance-critical services (notably cutting search latency dramatically). Comfortable across the stack, Mehdi has strong SRE and backend chops—designing Kubernetes operators, managing multi-petabyte Ceph clusters, and contributing to notable open-source projects like ceph-csi and django-environ. He blends technical leadership with people-centric coaching, hiring and mentoring engineering managers and individual contributors to raise organizational tech standards. Based in Stockholm, he continues to balance product-building and entrepreneurship as Co-Founder/CEO of Vianawork while contributing to commercial engineering at Avanti Studios. A lifelong coder who started at age 10, he brings curiosity-driven experimentation and practical product focus to every project.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Mathematics and Physics, High School Diploma Mathematics and Physics at Ostad HamdiBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering at IAUCTB
Kurdish, Persian, English
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Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
pytest10
python10
django10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
ceph10
appsettings10
drbd10
cicd9
websocket9
docker8
dockers8
flask6
sqlalchemy6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph-csi
May 2020 - Jun 2020
CSI driver for Ceph
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 39 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Mehdi contributed to the Ceph CSI driver by fixing error handling in the RBD (RADOS Block Device) module, ensuring correct behavior during volume creation. They also added support for using a Bionic distribution in the CI/CD environment for testing. Furthermore, the user enhanced the codebase by adding new methods for generating specification strings and implemented Rados namespace support for RBD.
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joke2k/django-environ
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Django-environ allows you to utilize 12factor inspired environment variables to configure your Django application.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Mehdi made several contributions focused on enhancing the `django-environ` library. They implemented tests for cache functionality, addressing edge cases with default values. Furthermore, they added support for handling empty environment variables with None defaults, expanding the library's robustness. In addition, the user also updated the documentation, adding details about new features and fixes. Their work also included handling escaped dollar signs within environment variables.
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