Location
Helsinki, Finland
Email
pouria@fiksu.me
Phone
+358 50 434 2038
GitHub
github.com/pouriaMaleki
Software engineer with 12+ years of experience spanning hands-on development, system architecture, and technical leadership. Proven track record of driving architectural decisions at scale, improving engineering quality across teams, and balancing long-term technical sustainability with real business delivery.
I've led teams, built products from zero to market leadership, and spent years close to the problem of how engineering teams actually work — not just what they build. I believe technical excellence and healthy team dynamics are deeply connected, and I work to support both.
Guide a team of 10–12 engineers, keeping day-to-day work aligned to business strategy, customer needs, and long-term technical health.
Drive performance optimization and large-scale refactoring efforts to raise the quality bar and support sustainable scaling of the codebase.
Lead project and risk management across team and cross-team boundaries — breaking down complex work, surfacing dependencies, and balancing delivery with architectural investment.
Introduced and scaled AI-assisted engineering workflows, improving team throughput without sacrificing quality or ownership.
Own DevOps and Kubernetes concerns where needed to ensure reliable, low-friction delivery — particularly for QA environments.
Led architectural direction for the frontend, designing sustainable long-term solutions and driving them through to implementation.
Built and scaled the team through hiring at all seniority levels; supported career growth through regular 1-1s and direct mentoring — resulting in multiple promotions.
Shaped ways of working that emphasised team ownership, psychological safety, and collective decision-making over individual contribution.
Managed stakeholder visibility and expectations without creating noise for the team; did upward management to ensure leadership decisions reflected ground-level reality.
Supported customers directly on complex performance problems, bridging the gap between engineering and business impact.
Proposed, architected, and led development of Lernito from concept to market leader — reached 10% of the total target market and became profitable within one year of public launch.
Formed and led the Scrum team; defined the development process, hiring pipeline, and technical culture from scratch.
Ran internal workshops, bootcamps, and hackathons to raise technical standards across the wider organisation.
Led performance and scaling efforts to support rapid growth in concurrent users.
Co-founded and led technical direction for a POS startup across software and hardware teams.
Delivered report performance more than 10× faster than competitors through deep MongoDB query optimisation, query caching, and systematic React rendering improvements — which became the product's main differentiator.
Designed and optimised a Cordova-based music streaming app for low-end Android and iOS devices; built a custom virtual-DOM-like rendering layer before React was mainstream.
App reached 100K+ downloads within one month of launch and was top trending in its category in Iran.