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 (101)
elasticsearch10
gradle-plugin10
rest10
search-engine10
jvm10
groovy10
java10
android10
android-project10
kotlin10
restful10
javascript9
dynamodb9
graalvm9
intellij-idea9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
block/gradle-monorepo-ij-plugin
Mar 2025 - Dec 2025
InteliJ Plugin for working with Gradle monorepos
Contributions:12 reviews, 25 PRs, 42 pushes in 9 months
gradle
mmollaverdi/misk
Mar 2022 - Apr 2026
Microservice Kontainer
Contributions:26 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 1 month
dockermicroservicemicroservices
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