Summary
Poya Rahmati is a Development Lead with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack web and mobile platforms, currently leading development at MadLipz in Toronto. He specializes in PHP/MySQL backends, RESTful APIs, Linux systems, and front-end stacks, and has led Android app development and CMS tooling to support large user growth. Notably, he redesigned MadLipz’s database and backend to handle 600,000 queries per minute with a roadmap to 5,000,000 qpm and platform scalability for over 100 million users. His background blends startup founding experience, product-focused engineering, and a mechanical/biomedical engineering education, which informs a pragmatic, systems-minded approach to performance and UX. Colleagues rely on him to bridge DevOps, backend optimization, and client-facing features while shipping robust, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Biomedical Engineering minor, Biomedical Engineering minor at University of Toronto