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John Aghaei

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Software and AI Engineer with 8+ years building production software systems and 4+ years shipping LLM-powered features.

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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.

  • 10 years' experience
  • Joined July 2026

Industry experience

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

Work experience· 6 roles

Software & AI Developer · Vira Rayan Data ProcessorsJan 2022 – Apr 2026 · 4 yrs 4 mos

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 · NeonLearn (Online IT Academy)Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

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 · CERT Center, Lorestan UniversityOct 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

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 · Artificial Intelligence Lab, Lorestan UniversityOct 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos
Startup Founder · Science & Technology Park, University of Applied ScienceMar 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos
Full-Stack Developer & Product Manager · Phoenix (Pishro Negah Zarin)Aug 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

Education

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering · Lorestan University2019 – 2022
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering · Lorestan University2015 – 2019

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