Hi, I'm Ali Hewiagh, a Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience designing scalable backend systems, cloud architectures, and full-stack applications. I specialize in Node.js/NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS, and I love building high-performance APIs and scalable architectures. I also have experience integrating LLM/AI agents using LangChain and LangGraph to automate complex business workflows. I enjoy leading end-to-end delivery across event-tech, ed-tech, and SaaS domains, mentoring teammates, and raising the bar on reliability, observability, and developer experience.

Ali Hewiagh

Hi, I'm Ali Hewiagh, a Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience designing scalable backend systems, cloud architectures, and full-stack applications. I specialize in Node.js/NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS, and I love building high-performance APIs and scalable architectures. I also have experience integrating LLM/AI agents using LangChain and LangGraph to automate complex business workflows. I enjoy leading end-to-end delivery across event-tech, ed-tech, and SaaS domains, mentoring teammates, and raising the bar on reliability, observability, and developer experience.

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Hi, I’m Ali Hewiagh, a Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience designing scalable backend systems, cloud architectures, and full-stack applications. I specialize in Node.js/NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS, and I love building high-performance APIs and scalable architectures. I also have experience integrating LLM/AI agents using LangChain and LangGraph to automate complex business workflows.

I enjoy leading end-to-end delivery across event-tech, ed-tech, and SaaS domains, mentoring teammates, and raising the bar on reliability, observability, and developer experience.

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Experience Level

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Quite Loud
October 1, 2024 - Present
Led backend architecture for modular NestJS/TypeORM services powering multiple event-tech platforms; built scalable APIs, payment flows, media processing pipelines; designed and deployed AWS infrastructure (VPC, ECS, RDS, ALB, S3) with reliability and security; improved developer workflows across CI/CD, observability, testing, and release processes; implemented LLM-powered automation pipelines using LangChain/LangGraph to enhance operational efficiency.
Software Engineer at Picl Inc.
November 1, 2023 - August 1, 2024
Developed a SaaS platform with semantic search and high-performance video streaming using AWS MediaConvert, S3, and CloudFront; improved video load time by ~60% and throughput by ~40% via optimized chunk streaming and CDN caching; led AWS migration using DataSync & CloudFormation; built an SDK for third-party developers to integrate Picl APIs.
Full-Stack Developer at Paper Video
September 1, 2021 - October 1, 2023
Improved platform uptime from 97% to 99.9% by optimizing Node.js services and Angular frontend components; developed features across backend and frontend with secure, scalable AWS-backed deployments; integrated payment gateways and collaborated with design, QA, and product teams for high-quality releases.
iOS Developer at iCYCLE Malaysia
May 1, 2020 - August 1, 2021
Enhanced Swift-based mobile apps with improved responsiveness and user experience; integrated REST APIs and delivered reliable mobile data flows.
Full-Stack Engineer at iCYCLE Malaysia
July 1, 2018 - June 1, 2020
Improved API response times by ~35% and optimized MongoDB queries; built Angular/Node.js applications for an IoT-enabled recycling platform; designed and trained an ML-based anomaly detection model to reduce operational fraud.

Education

Master of Science (Information Technology) at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026
BSc Computer Science (Software Engineering) (Honors*) at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026

Qualifications

IBM Data Science Specialization (Python, Databases & SQL, Data Analysis)
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026
LinkedIn Learning: Data Engineering
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Education