Open to ambitious backend & product work

Backend systems
that survive real scale.

I'm Mehdi Rahimi—a Python and Django developer, founder, and product builder. I turn complex ideas into dependable systems people use every day.

7+years building with Python
3+founder-led products running in production
60K+users served by systems I built
500K+orders processed at scale

From zero to
used daily.

I work where product decisions, backend architecture, and real operational constraints meet.

01

Zyla

Founder · Product owner · Backend architect

Timeline2026 — Now

In development
Zyla AI customer support platform logo

In active development · Core backend architecture underway

An omnichannel AI customer-support platform that helps businesses serve customers consistently across Telegram, Instagram, Discord and website chat—from one intelligent operating layer.

Architecture & implementation

  • Architected a business-scoped backend with Django and PostgreSQL, modelling organizations, channel connections, customers, cross-channel identities, conversations and attachments.
  • Built a reusable Graphene-Django GraphQL foundation with Relay-style connections, cursor pagination, filtering, sorting, coded errors and field-level permission enforcement.
  • Created a provider-neutral AI layer with OpenRouter and Pydantic, including multimodal message schemas, structured tool calls, provider error normalization and model capability configuration.
  • Designed per-model token usage, generation time, cost and pricing records so AI interactions can be measured and billed accurately as the platform scales.
  • Modelled business knowledge bases, channel-specific customer identities and identity merging to preserve useful context across every customer touchpoint.
  • Realtime roadmap: streaming responses through SSE, live conversations over WebSockets with ASGI / Django Channels, Kafka, background processing, and MCP-based tools to communicate with online shops, and external integrations.
DjangoGraphQLPostgreSQLPydanticOpenRouterMCP · plannedRealtime · planned
02

Wise

Founder · Product owner · Full-stack

Timeline2025 — Now

View project
Wise advertising platform logo

25,000 signups · 4,000+ MAU · 15,000+ processed ads

A localized Telegram advertising platform that makes sophisticated campaign infrastructure usable for Iranian businesses and channel owners.

Architecture & implementation

  • Designed and shipped the platform from scratch with Django + DRF and React + TypeScript, containerized with Docker and served through Nginx + WSGI.
  • Engineered a plugin-based payment and exchange layer supporting IRR, USD, TRX and XTR with multiple gateway strategies and accurate cross-currency billing.
  • Used Celery workers to synchronize Telegram entities, manage advertising workflows and deliver detailed user notifications outside the request cycle.
  • Built a type-safe API layer with Pydantic validation, permission checks and automatic OpenAPI documentation generated from field definitions and docstrings.
  • Integrated the Telegram Ads API with real-time pay-per-view tracking, plus AI-assisted compliance, campaign generation, behavior analysis and support.
  • Developed an MCP server to expose platform capabilities through a structured interface for AI clients and system integrations.
DjangoDRFReactTypeScriptCeleryPydanticMCP
03

iVPN

Founder · Product owner · Full-stack

Timeline2022 — Now

View project
iVPN secure network service logo

30,000+ active users · 200+ daily orders · 95% uptime

A resilient anti-censorship service with multi-protocol VPN access, ten-plus payment methods, and infrastructure designed for hostile network conditions.

Architecture & implementation

  • Built the product backend with Django and Telethon, connecting account management, ordering, payments and automated Telegram operations.
  • Provisioned multi-protocol V2Ray access using VLESS, VMess and Trojan with TLS/XTLS encryption.
  • Designed load-balanced, multi-hop infrastructure using HAProxy, Nginx and Apache to maintain service continuity across restricted networks.
  • Integrated a native TRX cryptocurrency gateway alongside ten additional international and local payment methods.
  • Created a web administration system backed by GraphQL APIs for efficient configuration and CRUD operations.
  • Applied distributed routing, WARP and TLS packet-fragmentation techniques to reduce server detection under GFW-style filtering.
DjangoTelethonGraphQLHAProxyNginxNetworking
04

iPanel

Founder · Product owner · Full-stack

Timeline2020 — 2022

View project
iPanel social media services platform logo

5,000+ users · 300,000+ orders · millions of social actions delivered

A multilingual, multicurrency social-media services platform with real-time order tracking and international and local payments.

Architecture & implementation

  • Built the core platform with Django, Django REST Framework and MySQL, supporting multilingual and multicurrency service delivery.
  • Used Celery to coordinate long-running order workflows and third-party service processing outside web requests.
  • Delivered live order progress through Django Channels, WebSockets and Daphne, including received, remaining and pre-order audience counts.
  • Integrated the Instagram and Telegram APIs to automate fulfillment across multiple social-media service types.
  • Implemented six local and international payment gateways and used Pillow for platform media-processing needs.
DjangoDRFWebSocketsCeleryMySQLPayments
Snapp! Carfix

Snapp! CarFix · Backend developer

Engineering inside a
3.5M-user ecosystem.

At Snapp! CarFix, I built Django REST Framework and GraphQL APIs for a platform serving 3.5 million users and processing more than 15,000 daily orders—while making its backend faster, clearer and easier to extend.

  • Designed reusable DRF and GraphQL endpoints, applying clean OOP and DRY principles across production services.
  • Extended Saleor with OTP authentication, product bundles, native payment gateways and GraphQL CRUD workflows.
  • Accelerated a permission-aware VoIP monitoring panel through a Redis-backed caching strategy and deployed it with Docker Compose.
  • Built a Celery-powered data warehouse that centralized structured data from 10+ MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases for business intelligence.
  • Developed an open-source Python payment SDK for Iran's national Sadad gateway.
  • Mentored two junior developers in Python, Django, clean code and object-oriented design.

Isfahan, Iran Jul 2022 — Jun 2023

Depth where it
matters.

01

Backend architecture

Django, FastAPI, DRF, GraphQL and REST APIs designed around clear contracts and maintainable domains.

02

Product engineering

From ambiguous idea to shipped product: architecture, billing, operations, metrics and the feedback loop after launch.

03

Reliable infrastructure

Dockerized delivery, queues, caching, web servers and practical observability for systems that cannot be fragile.

PythonDjangoFastAPIFastMCPReactTypeScriptGoPostgreSQLRedisCeleryRabbitMQDockerGraphQL

Based in Isfahan, Iran
Working globally

Curious by default.
Disciplined by practice.

I care about elegant object-oriented design, but I care even more about whether the product works for the people depending on it. That means learning the domain, choosing simple abstractions, and improving quality one deliberate line at a time.

My work spans product strategy, backend architecture, payments, automation, infrastructure and the unglamorous operational details that turn a promising prototype into a dependable business.

Persian · NativeEnglish · Upper-intermediateSpanish · Elementary

Built in public.
Made useful.

01 / Repository

115stars

LazyHelper

A Django and React remote-control interface for triggering computer actions, sharing clipboard text, defining custom commands and connecting smart-home services through an API.

PythonDjangoReactREST APIAutomation

02 / Repository

51stars

Telegram Copier Bot

Event-driven Telegram automation that mirrors messages between linked channels, preserves reply relationships, filters or replaces words and adds configurable signatures.

PythonTelethonMTProtoAsync IOJSON

03 / Repository

3stars

Sadad SDK

A Python client for Iran's Sadad payment gateway covering payment requests and verification, complete refund workflows, RSA signing, proxy support and structured API models.

PythonRequestsDataclassesRSAREST API

04 / Repository

0stars

LinkedIn Downloader

A multilingual Telegram bot that turns LinkedIn posts into downloadable media and delivers the files back in chat, with persistent user data and Redis-assisted state.

PythonTelethonLinkedIn APIMySQLRedisDocker