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Behzad Dara

@behzaddara

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Senior AI & backend engineer building scalable LLM platforms and resilient microservices for production-grade products.

Turkey

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can build production-grade AI/LLM systems end to end—scalable backend, robust observability, and rigorous evaluation—partnering with product to ship reliable features with measurable impact and uptime.

I’m a Senior AI & Backend Software Engineer with 8 years of experience architecting high-throughput backend systems and deploying production-grade AI pipelines. I’ve led a 10-person team shipping a BNPL superapp to 5M+ users with 99.98% uptime, and I’m now designing multi-provider AI generation platforms that integrate GPT-4o, Veo 3, and Sora into scalable FastAPI services.

I specialize in orchestrating complex LLM workflows using LangChain and LangGraph—bridging advanced models to reliable product deployments. From founding a conversational AI product and orchestrating long-running agent workflows with LangSmith, to engineering resilient microservices, event-driven architectures, and end-to-end CI/CD with evaluation workflows, I focus on measurable reliability improvements like reducing hallucinations by ~35% and maintaining strong production uptime across multi-tenant, async endpoints.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

AI Senior Software Engineer

Current

StudioVerse

Apr 2026 - Present (2 months)

Architected a multi-provider AI generation platform in FastAPI integrating text-to-video, image, and audio capabilities, using GPT-4o-mini for automated scene decomposition. Built a resilient GCS-backed storage layer with PostgreSQL metadata and improved production observability across multi-tenant endpoints.

fastAPI LangGraph OpenAI API Google Cloud Storage PostgreSQL Sentry Observability

Senior Software Engineer - AI/LLM

Alien Intellect

Dec 2025 - Apr 2026 (4 months)

Founded and engineered a production conversational AI system, delivering end-to-end design through the first customer deployment in 3 months. Reduced hallucination rates by ~35% using structured output schemas, validation chains, and guardrails while scaling AWS infrastructure via Terraform.

LangGraph Langsmith Terraform AWS Structured Outputs GuardRails GitHub Actions Prompt Evaluation

Senior Software Engineer

Alibaba Travels

Mar 2025 - Dec 2025 (9 months)

Expanded the Transfer microservice to handle 17 transaction types processing 1M+ transactions monthly, reducing failed transfer rate by 23% with idempotency, retry logic, and reconciliation. Resolved 7 critical Cash Out incidents, improving error rate by 11% and reducing MTTR from 30 minutes to 7 minutes.

Microservices Retry Logic Distributed Systems Event Driven Architecture Reliability Engineering

Technical Team Lead

Keepa

Apr 2022 - Mar 2025 (2 years 11 months)

Led a cross-functional team of 10 to architect and launch a BNPL Superapp from inception to production, scaling to 5M+ users with 99.98% uptime. Built a multi-tenant B2B SaaS layer and accelerated release cycles from 2 days to 4 hours by implementing CI/CD for 10+ microservices.

Microservices ELK Stack OpenTelemetry Jaeger

Software Engineer

Moallem Insurance

Oct 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 5 months)

Engineered .NET microservices supporting peak loads of 10K+ concurrent users with sub-200ms response times. Designed Kafka-based event-driven workflows and optimized database access with EF Core and PostgreSQL, reducing query time by ~20%, while deploying on AWS with 99.9% uptime.

Microservices Apache Kafka PostgreSQL Redis fastAPI Performance Optimization High Availability

Software Engineer

Bama

Jul 2017 - Sep 2019 (2 years 2 months)

Migrated a legacy monolith to a .NET microservices architecture with 8 services, integrating RabbitMQ for async messaging and Ocelot API Gateway for routing. Improved SQL Server performance by 25–35% using Dapper and Redis caching and reduced average response time from 800ms to under 500ms, alongside Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and Python ETL APIs.

Microservices RabbitMQ Ocelot API Gateway Dapper Redis Prometheus Grafana Python Django ETL

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Sharif University of Technology

Master of Science, Computer Science

2021 - 2024

Grade: GPA: 3.7

Master of Science in Computer Science at Sharif University of Technology (2021–2024). Thesis: ontology-based fake user behavior generation for privacy preservation in smart home.