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Saeed Ghofrani Ivari

Backend engineer & engineering manager · Adana

sa.ghofraniivari@gmail.com
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Experience

From enterprise software to backend leadership.

I started in enterprise .NET development and moved into Node.js services, trading systems, and real-time communication. I now manage backend engineers at LicenseMarket alongside hands-on work. GBT Market and Keyvangold are separate ongoing freelance engagements.

8

Backend engineers led

5+

Major releases coordinated

99.9%

LicenseMarket uptime over about six months

40%

LicenseMarket API latency reduction over about six months

01

Engineering Manager / Backend Engineer

LicenseMarket

2023 - Present

NestJSPostgreSQLPrismaRedisRabbitMQKubernetes

Hands-on backend engineering and team management for a commerce and CRM platform. Began managing engineers in early 2024; now lead a team of eight.

Build commerce and CRM services with NestJS, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Redis caching, and RabbitMQ background jobs.

Reduced average API latency by 40% through caching, indexing, and query optimization; validated with database/API timing tests over approximately six months.

Build ticketing, document automation, and AI chat workflows; develop refunds, wallet transactions, and financial reports with accounting stakeholders.

Maintained 99.9% platform uptime over approximately six months, tracked with UptimeRobot and CRM incident records.

Support Kubernetes, Grafana monitoring, database administration, and Bash/PowerShell automation.

Developed a Mattermost plugin to strengthen message/channel access controls, fix search behavior, and improve responsiveness.

Plan delivery with GitHub Projects and issues, review pull requests, and mentor through hands-on project work. Manage hiring, one-to-ones, and performance reviews.

02

Backend Engineer (Freelance)

GBT Market

2025 - Present

NestJSMongoDBRedisSocket.IOBull

Ongoing freelance work on gold and cryptocurrency trading, separate from Keyvangold.

Build NestJS/MongoDB services for gold and cryptocurrency trading, orders, wallets, payments, authentication, and reporting.

Use atomic balance updates and idempotency to prevent concurrent overdrafts, inconsistent balances, and duplicate transaction logs.

Implement real-time updates with Socket.IO and Redis pub/sub, plus background jobs with Bull.

Contribute Jest/Supertest regression tests and support Docker/Nginx deployments.

03

Backend Engineer (Freelance)

Keyvangold

2025 - Present

A separate ongoing freelance engagement contributing to a production gold-trading platform.

Contribute to production gold-trading APIs for pricing, identity verification, rial and gold wallets, payments, settlement, inventory, and delivery.

Work on financial ledgers, role-based permissions, audit logs, Excel reports, and Persian invoice PDFs.

Support database migrations, Docker/Nginx deployments, and production maintenance.

04

Backend Engineer (Freelance)

Mobasher

2023 - 2025

NestJSWebRTCSocket.IORabbitMQSQLAngular

NestJS microservices for consulting, learning, messaging and voice/video sessions.

Supported 500+ concurrent users in production with observed messaging latency of 100-150 ms.

Integrated WebRTC, Socket.IO, and RabbitMQ communication workflows with an Angular frontend.

Optimized SQL stored procedures and data retrieval for frequently used screens.

05

Backend Developer

ExModule

2022 - 2023

NestJSPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearch

Backend development for cryptocurrency services, identity verification and financial workflows.

Built cryptocurrency backend services with NestJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.

Implemented KYC/AML onboarding, document and banking verification, exchange integrations, commissions, and referrals.

06

Backend Developer Intern

Borhan Sharif

2021 - 2022

C#ASP.NET CoreEF CoreMySQLAngular

Early backend engineering experience on the Symorgh ERP platform with C#/ASP.NET Core and Angular.

Contributed to Symorgh ERP, supporting project workflows, inventory, procurement, invoicing, and payments.

Worked on a layered C#/ASP.NET Core backend with Entity Framework Core, MySQL, and an Angular frontend.

Education and professional training

Payame Noor University — B.Sc. Computer Science, in progress (2021–Present)

Maktab Sharif — Node.js Backend Development coursework, 320+ hours (2021)