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Pooriya J. — Senior Platform Engineering Lead from Uzbekistan

Pooriya J.

Senior Platform Engineering Lead

Uzbekistan 3-6 years
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Pooria J. is a seasoned Platform Engineering Lead with over 20 years of experience in the fintech industry, specializing in infrastructure, distributed backend systems, platform architecture, and technical delivery. Based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he has an extensive track record of leading engineering teams to build scalable backend platforms and drive technical delivery from architecture to production operations. His recent role as Head of Platform Engineering at Finowin involved directing a cross-functional team to create a greenfield microservices platform, focusing on banking integrations and high-integrity financial workflows. As Co-Founder & Founding CTO at Paidar, Pooria led the technical roadmap for a non-custodial wallet and wealth PWA, implementing multi-chain wallet infrastructure and sophisticated transaction workflows. His skills include strong expertise in Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, and technologies like MongoDB and PostgreSQL, with a focus on CI/CD, structured logging, and operational resilience. He holds a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from Islamic Azad University in Tehran and possesses professional working proficiency in English.

Experience

  • Head of Platform Engineering

    Finowin · 2025 — 2026
    Directed a cross-functional team of approximately 8 on a new microservices platform with no existing codebase. Facilitated architecture and delivery across multiple integration domains including banking and notifications with B2B/B2C API surfaces, structured logging, and request tracing. Developed operationally resilient wallet and reconciliation systems for financial workflows. Managed onboarding for 13 enterprise clients and developed a multi-surface API strategy using OpenAPI/Swagger. Provided mentorship to engineers and established delivery standards involving CI/CD, code review, and automated testing.

  • Co-Founder & Founding CTO

    Paidar · 2025 — 2025
    Co-founded and led a team of around 10, overseeing hiring, technical roadmap, sprint delivery, CI/CD, and production operations for a non-custodial wallet and wealth PWA. Created infrastructure for a multi-chain non-custodial wallet, enabling on-chain transactions and swap integrations across various blockchain platforms. Delivered user authentication and operational monitoring for the React PWA at paidaran.com.

  • Platform Engineer (contract, solo)

    WhatsApp Aggregator · 2024 — 2025
    Developed high-volume WhatsApp ingestion and operator tooling to process a significant number of messages daily, incorporating automated support-ticket routing and internal analytics workflows. Delivered asynchronous message pipelines and classification workflows to enhance support automation at scale.

  • Engineering Lead — Backend & Integrations

    Goodfox · 2023 — 2024
    Led a backend engineering team of about 4, focusing on NestJS/Node.js services supported by PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis. Played a key role in scaling a loyalty platform to serve numerous merchants and users. Designed a loyalty points and rewards engine along with merchant APIs, dashboards, and payment gateway integrations.

  • Engineering Lead (Part-time)

    Saleminz · 2023 — 2024
    Oversaw backend platform delivery for a sports and wellness product, facilitating features such as streaming, courses, and nutrition within the Saleminz PWA.

  • Other Engineering Roles

    null · 2019 — 2023
    Served as Backend & Integration Lead at Hanotec, focusing on backend development for discount platforms and e-commerce migrations. Worked as a Backend & Integrations Engineer at GolfamSafar, handling supplier integration workflows across travel providers and managing admin tooling for tours and flights.

  • Payments Infrastructure Lead

    Pardakht Novine Ariyan · 2007 — 2012
    Managed POS/switch programmes, NOC/agent operations, S2M migration, and the development of kiosk/monitoring platforms.

  • Payments & Infrastructure Specialist

    Samanehaye Hooshmande Totan
    Worked on DEPA rollout and monitoring, bank CRM, and core network services including Active Directory.

  • Payments & POS Engineer

    Adtech
    Developed Android POS applications using Java and contributed to POS bridge projects in C#, alongside providing technical support for core banking implementations.

  • Technical Expert

    Infotech International
    Supported TMS/key-injection tooling and contributed to core banking implementation projects.

Skills & Expertise

SupercreatorArchitectural ServicesCRMAccount ManagementBootstrap DeveloperBackend DeveloperBlockchain Developer

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering
    Islamic Azad University, Tehran South Branch · — — 2008