Software and AI Engineer with 8+ years building production software systems and 4+ years shipping LLM-powered features. Specialized in AI-assisted engineering workflows—coding agents, tool calling, prompt orchestration, RAG-based codebase retrieval, and model evaluation. Daily user of Claude Code and AI coding assistants for automated testing, code review, and refactoring. Strong in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, secure practices, and CI-driven development, with a first-author Generative AI publication and 300,000+ developers taught through NeonLearn.

John Aghaei

Software and AI Engineer with 8+ years building production software systems and 4+ years shipping LLM-powered features. Specialized in AI-assisted engineering workflows—coding agents, tool calling, prompt orchestration, RAG-based codebase retrieval, and model evaluation. Daily user of Claude Code and AI coding assistants for automated testing, code review, and refactoring. Strong in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, secure practices, and CI-driven development, with a first-author Generative AI publication and 300,000+ developers taught through NeonLearn.

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Software and AI Engineer with 8+ years building production software systems and 4+ years shipping LLM-powered features. Specialized in AI-assisted engineering workflows—coding agents, tool calling, prompt orchestration, RAG-based codebase retrieval, and model evaluation.

Daily user of Claude Code and AI coding assistants for automated testing, code review, and refactoring. Strong in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, secure practices, and CI-driven development, with a first-author Generative AI publication and 300,000+ developers taught through NeonLearn.

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Language

English
Fluent
Persian
Fluent
German
Intermediate

Work Experience

Software & AI Developer at Vira Rayan Data Processors
January 1, 2022 - April 1, 2026
Integrated Claude Code and AI coding assistants to accelerate implementation, debugging, automated testing, and code refactoring workflows. Designed and deployed agentic and RAG-based AI assistants for enterprise clients with codebase-aware retrieval, prompt orchestration, and tool calling from architecture to production. Built AI evaluation and benchmarking pipelines with RAGAS and Ranx to measure agent quality and reliability for end-to-end pipeline success. Analyzed requirements, selected models/tools, delivered LLM-powered client features, fine-tuned small domain models, and optimized model selection to reduce inference cost while meeting performance needs. Collaborated with client engineers on requirements, prototypes, and iterative improvements.
Founder & Instructor at NeonLearn (Online IT Academy)
April 1, 2020 - Present
Founded and scaled an online IT education platform to 300,000+ students across 30+ programming and software development courses. Produced 240+ hours of technical video courses on YouTube, contributing 1M+ watch hours, 8M+ views, and 100,000+ subscribers, demonstrating strong technical communication through teaching and content creation.
Instructor & Consultant at CERT Center, Lorestan University
October 1, 2019 - June 1, 2022
Delivered 500+ hours of IT training in programming and software development for students and professionals, supporting technical upskilling and applied learning through hands-on instruction.
AI Researcher at Artificial Intelligence Lab, Lorestan University
October 1, 2019 - June 1, 2022
Conducted research on artificial neural networks and deep learning architectures for three years. Developed Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for synthetic medical image generation, resulting in a first-author peer-reviewed publication on optical coherence tomography image classification using GANs.
Startup Founder at Science & Technology Park, University of Applied Science
March 1, 2018 - August 1, 2019
Founded Dart, an educational language-learning platform connecting teachers and students. Led a development team from concept through launch.
Full-Stack Developer & Product Manager at Phoenix (Pishro Negah Zarin)
August 1, 2016 - February 1, 2018
Built production frontend and backend applications using React, React Native, and Node.js. Delivered product features on schedule in an Agile/Scrum environment using software development best practices while managing product direction and execution.

Education

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at Lorestan University
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2022
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at Lorestan University
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2019

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Education, Computers & Electronics, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment