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Reza Golkhandani

  • Senior Software Engineer
  • Backend platforms & integrations
  • Instructor
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TypeScript | Node.js | PostgreSQL | AWS | React | Flutter

Vancouver, BC · Open to senior backend and platform roles, remote or hybrid

01 // Engineering

Software Development

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Professional Summary

Senior software engineer with nearly 10 years of experience designing backend platforms, third-party integrations, and developer tooling for SaaS and field-operations products. Takes full ownership of a system from data model and architecture decisions through reliability, authorization, and test infrastructure, and turns fragile processes into durable ones. Brings AI-assisted engineering to a team as a practice, building the skills, agents, and conventions that let engineers ship faster without lowering the quality bar, and mentors through teaching and code review.

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Technical Skills

TypeScriptNode.jsNest.jsNext.jsReactFlutter (Dart)Java
PostgreSQLDrizzleTypeORMMongoDBRedisElasticsearchKafkaRabbitMQGraphQL
AWS (Lambda, SQS, SES, S3)Serverless FrameworkSSTDockerKubernetesGitHub ActionsGitLab CI
PlaywrightJestVitestTDDESLint rule authoringOpenTelemetrySentryDatadogCloudWatch
Architecture Decision RecordsReBAC authorizationAgentic skillsMCP servers
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Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Company: WOW 1 Day Painting Inc.Sep 2025 – Present
  • Own about 30% of the platform codebase after one year and authored 34 architecture decision records that set the team's engineering conventions.
  • Own the scheduling and dispatch engine end to end, from the availability model to the dispatch board; it powers estimate booking, sales, and online booking across all franchises. Delivered crew scheduling for field crews: shift assignment, open shifts, and the production timeline crews work from each day.
  • Delivered the Sales Centre and franchise KPI dashboard for sales teams.
  • Own real-time Google Calendar sync across franchise calendars, from OAuth and webhooks to a durable outbox worker that keeps technician and customer events consistent in both directions.
  • Led the redesign of authorization to relationship-based access control and established end-to-end testing, including a staging suite that runs the full sales-to-paid lifecycle against live integrations.
  • Built the AI-assisted engineering harness the team works inside: Claude Code skills for the ticket lifecycle, cross-service error triage, root-cause analysis, and hypothesis debugging on a custom MCP debug server.

Full-Stack Development Instructor

Company: CCTB College (Part-time)Sep 2024 – Apr 2026
  • Taught Java OOP, web development, Linux and networking, and test automation to classes of 20+; redesigned the Linux curriculum around automation, Docker, and CI/CD.

Senior Backend Developer

Company: Sync.com Inc.May 2024 – Sep 2024
  • Introduced a queued notification service with improved spam tolerance and delivery reliability for over 2 million customers.
  • Improved file-sharing performance by 10% to 30% through query and flow optimization.

Full-Stack Developer

Company: SkyHive Technologies Inc.Dec 2022 – Jan 2024
  • Built Node.js REST and GraphQL APIs and React and Flutter front ends for an AI-driven workforce SaaS.
  • Cut rating-system mismatch by 10% and runtime by 50 to 200 ms per run by optimizing background workers and queries.
  • Ran Kafka, RabbitMQ, and YugabyteDB workloads at about 25% lower cost than managed cloud equivalents, with OpenTelemetry monitoring.

Software Developer

Company: Plasmatic Technologies Inc.Oct 2021 – Dec 2022
  • Built three serverless backend services for data anonymization, IoT communication, and reporting (Node.js, Serverless Framework, GraphQL, AWS).
  • Raised unit test coverage above 90% on critical services, sped up ACL authentication by over 100 ms, and designed the OpenSearch KNN recommendation schema.

Senior Backend Developer

Company: Fabizi (Supnex)Mar 2020 – Sep 2021
  • First engineer; designed the SaaS and database architecture (Nest.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis), Kafka and RabbitMQ flows for high-volume writes, and Elasticsearch inventory search.

Full-Stack Developer

Company: PeeyadeNov 2016 – Mar 2020
  • First developer; grew a location-based events platform to over 100k users on Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch, with an FFmpeg media pipeline and GitLab CI deployments.
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Projects and Gigs

  • Software Engineer, Plasmatic Technologies Inc. (WAVSmart) — Contract, Aug 2026 – Present. Sole engineer on the iLOQ physical access-control integration for a multi-tenant IoT platform, from a full simulator of the vendor's 97-endpoint API to person sync, key provisioning, audit-log ingestion, and access alerting validated against a live vendor tenant.
  • Founder & Lead Developer, Next Horizon Technologies Inc. — Sep 2025 – Present. Software studio shipping SaaS and mobile products; built MyServiceCRM, an end-to-end platform for service businesses (booking, estimates, scheduling, invoicing, Stripe Connect payments) on Nest.js, Next.js, and PostgreSQL, and privacy-first iOS apps in Flutter with on-device data management.
  • Full-Stack Developer, EvolveX Branding Inc. — Contract, Sep 2024 – Apr 2025. Built the Node.js REST API with real-time chat and an OpenAI chatbot, and shipped the Flutter MVP app with maps, payments, and OAuth.
  • mysql2-nestjs, mongoose-tenancy-nest, fastest-validator-nestjs — npm packages for multi-tenancy and validation in Nest.js.
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Education

  • MSc, Instructional Technology — New York Institute of Technology
  • BSc, Electrical Engineering — Semnan University