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Ali Rezaei
Ali RezaeiFull stack & AI engineer

Production apps your product and ops teams can rely on.

Three to four years shipping dashboards, internal tools, and ML-enabled workflows for founders, research partners, and high-growth product orgs. I own the build from idea to deployment with CI, authentication, monitoring, and hand-off docs so teams operate confidently.

Specialty

React · Next · Node · Django

Impact

Trusted by government & labs

Process

CI, observability, docs

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Product leadershipOps & analytics teamsResearch partners

Engagement options

Full-time roles

Embedded teammate

Slot me into your product team. I handle production readiness, documentation, and stakeholder comms while shipping features.

Contract engagements

Scoped build partner

Dashboards, admin suites, and AI workflows with clear milestones, weekly updates, and runbooks so your team can extend them.

High trust programsSecurity-led teamsGlobal impact orgs

About

Snapshot of the work I deliver and how I approach new teams.

About Ali

Delivery focused partner for defence, research, and security teams

Ali Rezaei wearing a mixed reality headset

Ali Rezaei

Full stack and AI engineer

How I work

I scope production ready deliverables, share weekly status, and hand over docs plus runbooks so teams can extend the work after launch.

Full stack web developer shipping production applications in React, Next.js, Node, Django, and PostgreSQL.

Built and deployed internal tools, training platforms, and admin dashboards for government, research labs, and security consultancies.

Comfortable running modern workflows end to end: Docker, CI, cloud deploys, and authentication for real users on live systems.

Systems built
Dashboards, admin suites, training platforms
Teams served
Government, research labs, security firms
Delivery strengths
CI, authentication, monitoring, documentation

Technical skills

Battle tested stacks used on live systems.

Skill map

Grouped stacks for production delivery

These are the tools I lean on for real deployments. Each category maps to a part of delivery from interface polish to monitoring, so teams know exactly how I plug into their workflows.

Core languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonSQLCC++C#HTMLCSS

Front end systems

ReactNext.jsReact NativeReduxThree.js

Back end services

Node.jsExpressFastAPIDjangoREST APIsGraphQL

Data & ML support

PyTorchTensorFlowHugging FaceOpenCV

Infrastructure & DevOps

DockerGitHub ActionsVercelAWSAzureLinux

Quality & security

JestReact Testing LibraryPyTestCI workflowsAuthentication & authorizationRole based access controlOWASP basics

Data stores

PostgreSQLSQLiteRedisMongoDB

Awards & Certifications

Selected credentials, federal training, and distinctions backing my delivery work.

Credential portfolio

Curated snapshot, refreshed October 2025

Major professional certificates

  • Google Cybersecurity & IT Support Professional Certificates (2025)
  • IBM SkillsBuild: Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Agile Foundations
  • SQL Fundamentals and applied database labs

Canada School of Public Service series

15 bilingual micro-credentials (2024)
  • Customer-centric design, policy integration, and evidence-informed decision making
  • PMBOK scheduling, communications, and resource planning modules
  • Procurement, staffing, and HR terms for federal programs

Technical & engineering courses

  • Hypersonic Missile Flyout (Udemy, 2025)
  • Composite Technician & Manufacturing Processes (Open X, 2024)
  • Blender foundations, FFMPEG workflows, AMD Tech Talk Series

Leadership & communication

  • Winning Back a Lost Customer, Leading a Customer-Centric Culture (LinkedIn Learning, 2024)
  • Evidence-informed decision making trilogy for policy briefs
  • Becoming a Manager: supervisory toolkit refresh

Honors & awards

Distinctions that build trust

Lassonde Co-op Student of the YearNational Brain Bee Competition finalistNational Biology Scholar recognitionKhwarizmi Youth Innovation Award finalistFIRST Robotics "Destination: Deep Space" leadership role (2019)

Experience

Selected roles and contributions. Full references available on request.

Software and ML Engineer

Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research

  • •Built internal web tools for the Safe Water Optimization project using Next.js, Node, PostgreSQL, Docker, and GitHub Actions.
  • •Implemented a RAG backend with FastAPI and Redis, exposing REST APIs consumed by a React interface.
  • •Created ETL scripts for PDFs and reports, added logging and evaluation harnesses, and documented deployment steps for other developers.

Cybersecurity Engineer

8 Limbs Consultancy

  • •Delivered a Django and React admin dashboard with JWT authentication, audit logging, and role-based access control for sensitive workflows.
  • •Introduced CI checks, pre-commit hooks, and coverage gates to stabilize releases and catch regressions.
  • •Partnered with clients to translate security requirements into concrete features such as access policies and activity history views.

Software Engineer

Defence Research and Development Canada

  • •Developed Python and Node services with PostgreSQL to collect and analyze sensor data, packaged with Docker and integrated with CI on Azure and GitHub Actions.
  • •Built streaming APIs and React dashboards that researchers used to review experiments.
  • •Coordinated with contractors on Unity tools and owned test plans, issue triage, and release notes for internal releases.

Founder

Actium Defence

  • •Designed and built a full stack training platform with Next.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Vercel, Clerk, Mux, Inngest, and Upstash.
  • •Implemented course content models, media upload pipelines, and admin views with protected routes and RBAC.
  • •Set up preview and production environments with GitHub Actions, automated migrations, and environment-specific configuration.

Research Assistant

York University Centre for Vision Research

  • •Implemented Python and R pipelines to clean, transform, and visualize experimental data for computer vision research projects.
  • •Developed machine learning algorithms for EEG signal denoising and classification.

Robotics Instructor

Wize Computing Academy

  • •Taught robotics and programming fundamentals using block-based and text-based tools, reinforcing problem solving and software design skills.

Founder & President

Artificial Intelligence Club at York University

  • •Organized workshops on deep learning, computer vision, and practical ML tools for students.
  • •Coordinated industry speakers and managed the team handling events, content, and outreach.

Research Assistant

University of Waterloo

  • •Supported software and data analysis tasks for research initiatives.

Education

Lassonde Engineering - York University (Computer Science)

Canada School of Public Service - Project Management and Business Operations

Awards

  • •Lassonde Co-op Student of the Year
  • •Khwarizmi Youth Innovation Award
  • •National Neuroscience Olympiad Gold Medallist

Certifications (selected)

  • •NodeJS - The Complete Guide
  • •React, NodeJS, Express and MongoDB - The MERN Fullstack Guide
  • •Fundamentals of Backend Engineering
  • •Introduction to Cloud Computing
  • •Clean Code

Book a role or scoped project call

Hiring managers, founders, and research leads can tell me about your team and the outcome you need. I reply to most messages within one business day.

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Business inquiries

Ali@rezaei.agency