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Engineering background · Product mindset · Shipping at scale

Saeed Saedi

Technical Product Manager at Kifpool.me, a crypto exchange. I turn what users need and what the business wants into software that ships on time and holds up when the market moves fast.

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2M+

users on the exchange I ship for

31

microservices on my roadmap

20

engineers across three squads

8×

production scale-up in my previous role

Selected work

Problems I’ve owned, end to end

Five problems from a crypto exchange and a factory floor. Each one covers what was wrong, what I did and what changed.

BEFORE One sprint plan, 31 services SPRINT blocked dependency AFTER 3 squads, clear owners BACKENDINFRABLOCKCHAIN explicit dependency owner

Kifpool.me · Delivery

From one sprint plan to service ownership

Delivery for 31 microservices ran on one shared sprint plan, so cross-team dependencies kept surfacing mid-sprint. I moved delivery to service-level ownership and put dependencies on the table before each sprint.

−30%cross-team dependency blockers, and more predictable releases
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delivery · 31 services LIVE VELOCITY RISK RELEASE CONFIDENCE on track at risk shipped illustrative

Kifpool.me · Visibility

Real-time delivery visibility for the C-suite

An org-wide tracking framework that shows velocity, risk and release confidence for every service, so leadership sees delivery as it happens instead of in status meetings.

31/31services tracked in real time
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release plan · touches money kill switch TESTED 1 INTERNAL2 SMALL SHARE 3 LARGER SHARE4 EVERYONE ERROR RATE ROLLBACK IF CROSSED logsmetricsalertsrunbook illustrative

Kifpool.me · Reliability

Releases that protect people’s money

On an exchange, a bad release can touch people’s money. I made rollout plans, rollback paths and monitoring a standard part of shipping anything that touches financial data.

48 hfrom a serious incident to a blameless postmortem, with fixes tracked to done
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3K 25K 8× BEFORE AFTER units per month

Toosalem Industrial · Operations

Scaling a production line 8×

Designed a new production line and restructured shift operations to take output from 3,000 to 25,000 units a month, with less waste and less downtime.

8×monthly output, with −26% waste and −18% downtime
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BEFORE manual tracking AFTER two internal systems PACKAGING MAINTENANCE KPI 21 users 2 systems illustrative

Toosalem Industrial · Internal product

Software for a factory floor

Production depended on manual tracking. I built two internal systems, for packaging and for maintenance, that 21 people used and that made our KPI reporting more accurate.

21people using two internal systems
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The path

Engineer → Production manager → Product manager

A non-linear career, on purpose. What connects it is building systems that stay precise and reliable at scale: first in code, then on a production line, now in a product used by millions.

  1. 2011

    Engineer & co-founder

    Co-founded a data-collection startup and designed and built the full-stack platform, from first idea to early product-market-fit work.

    Co-founder · GoldenTech
  2. 2019

    Production Manager

    Ran production for an automotive manufacturer, with 80 people across three shifts, and scaled output eightfold with a new line.

    8× output · −26% waste
  3. 2024 — now

    Technical Product Manager

    Joined Kifpool.me as a backend developer and moved to Scrum Master. Today I own the roadmap for 31 microservices.

    31 services · 20 engineers

Experience

Where I’ve done it

Sep 2024 — now

Kifpool.me

Cryptocurrency exchange

Current

Technical Product Manager

Backend Developer → Scrum Master → Technical PM

  • Own roadmap and delivery for 31 microservices — exchange engine, order management, pricing and blockchain integrations — at 95%+ on-time delivery.
  • Lead a 20-engineer team across backend, infrastructure and blockchain squads.
  • Moved delivery to service-level ownership (−30% cross-team blockers) and built real-time delivery tracking for the C-suite.

Laravel · FastAPI · Go · Node.js · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse · MySQL · NATS · Docker

Feb 2019 — Sep 2024

Toosalem Industrial

Automotive manufacturing

Production Manager

  • Scaled output 8× (3,000 → 25,000 units a month) with a new production line and restructured shifts.
  • Raised efficiency 40% across three shifts and ~80 people; cut material waste 26% and unplanned downtime 18%.
  • Built two internal systems — packaging and maintenance management — used by 21 people.

Operations · Process design · KPI tracking · Internal tools

2011

GoldenTech

Startup · Chikhoobe platform

Co-Founder & Developer

  • Co-founded a data-collection startup; designed and built the full-stack platform and led early validation.
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How I work

Five working principles

  1. 01

    Dependencies on day zero

    Any feature that touches more than one service gets a dependency map before the sprint starts, not halfway through it.

  2. 02

    Every sprint has a cut list

    We agree up front what we drop first if time gets tight, so a slip is a decision, not a surprise.

  3. 03

    Success is defined before we build

    Every feature starts with the metric it should move, and we check that metric after we ship.

  4. 04

    Decisions go in writing

    Options, criteria and the decision are written down before we build, so nobody re-argues it three sprints later.

  5. 05

    Nothing ships blind

    Logs, metrics, alerts and a runbook before production, and a rollback path before launch.

Also

Open source

Toolbox

  • Product

    Roadmapping, sprint planning, stakeholder management, OKRs/KPIs, product analytics, user research, Agile/Scrum

  • Engineering

    Microservices, Python/FastAPI, PHP/Laravel, Go, Node.js, REST APIs

  • Data & infrastructure

    PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MySQL, Redis, NATS, Docker, CI/CD

Education

  • BSc, Industrial Management 2011–15

    Imam Reza International University

  • Product Management Program

    Bozhan School — strategy, user research, development, analytics

  • Languages

    English (upper-intermediate) · Persian (native)

Contact

Let’s talk.

Open to Technical PM and product leadership roles, and to good conversations about shipping software at scale.

saeed.saedi.s@gmail.com Download résumé (PDF)
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Saeed Saedi

Mashhad, Iran · UTC+3:30 · Open to relocation and remote work