Mehdi Mollaverdi
Principal Software Engineer at Block
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMehdi Mollaverdi is a Principal Software Engineer based in Melbourne with over a decade of experience delivering high-impact platform and backend solutions for large-scale products. He specializes in developer experience and platform reliability, notably driving an 80% reduction in build times for thousands of engineers and leading a complex monorepo migration across hundreds of repositories. Mehdi combines deep expertise in Java, Kotlin, Scala and JavaScript with pragmatic application of functional and object-oriented design, DDD and microservices to unblock multi-year projects like Cash App’s Bitcoin eligibility migration. He has led and mentored engineering teams, hired and coached direct reports, and consistently solves thorny, previously stalled technical problems to boost velocity and stability. Comfortable across cloud-native streaming, ML productionisation, and build-system automation, he pairs hands-on coding with architectural leadership. A quietly impactful engineer, he often leverages automation and AI agents to unblock large program-level challenges that others haven’t resolved.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering; - Software, Computer Engineering; - Software at University of Tehran
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Github Skills (113)
opensearch10
elasticsearch10
gradle-plugin10
search-engine10
jvm10
groovy10
java10
android10
gradle10
kotlin10
restful10
simulate9
javascript9
alarm9
kotlin-android9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mmollaverdi/misk
Mar 2022 - Jan 2024
Microservice Kontainer
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
dockermicroservicemicroservices
mmollaverdi/dependency-analysis-gradle-plugin
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Gradle plugin for JVM projects written in Java, Kotlin, Groovy, or Scala; and Android projects written in Java or Kotlin. Provides advice for managing dependencies and other applied plugins
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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