Alireza Ahmadi

me@alireza.es+374 43 56 41 83linkedin.com/in/alirezaahmadi

Yumero

Yumero is a drawing game for kids. It uses gamification to encourage kids to spend more time drawing instead of watching a screen.

Download on the App Store

Croissant Shop

I was an early investor and board member of Delis Croissant Shop, a specialty croissant bakery.

Efficient operations and healthy growth drove the return. Figures are based on data from the actual exit deal.

Kinda Random

In 2021 and 2022, I published around 50 issues of Kinda Random, a newsletter about business strategy, product, and tech.

The archives are no longer available. I used Revue, which Twitter had previously acquired. Revue shut down after Elon Musk acquired Twitter.

A sample of my writing from August 2022 is available here: Bugs — Kinda Random No. 39.

Experience

Totemian (formerly Jee Group)

Sep 2023 - Present

Co-Founder, Jan 2025 - Present; Team Lead, Sep 2023 - Dec 2024

Helped develop Jee Group into Totemian, a platform for digital advertising at physical locations with online performance tracking. Our network, mainly in Vancouver, has over 260 active screens and 183 locations live with content, with active screens up 21% over three months.

  • Led prioritization and development of the platform's software, translating sales and operations requirements into product changes.
  • Built back-office and customer-facing dashboards.
  • Built cloud services and worked with other engineers to define the system architecture using security-by-design principles.

Various Companies

Dec 2020 - Present

Consultant

  • Avee Health, digital health: Rebuilt the product development team and migrated the legacy system to a new implementation. Launched a customer-facing appointment booking system with tracking and advertising integrations, and improved the new website's SEO. Introduced AI into team workflows and led the planning and launch of AI integrations for data analysis, customer support, risk management, and back-office operations. Supported annual revenue growth to more than 3x the previous year’s level while operations headcount grew to nearly 1.5x.
  • Walllet.com, cryptocurrency wallet: Helped improve hiring and resolve infrastructure issues, enabling faster iteration on go-to-market strategy and helping the team find product-market fit.
  • Mootanroo, health and beauty e-commerce: Took over the near-bankrupt business as part of a private equity deal and helped revive it in under a year. Rebuilt the product and marketing teams and strategy, including hiring a product development team. Led product development, aligning priorities with marketing and fulfillment strategy.
  • Digikala Jet, q-commerce: Served as interim tech lead. Helped improve analytics and business intelligence. Led marketing automation that increased the repeat purchase rate by about 18%. Led search improvements and accounting changes that enabled rapid collection of substantial outstanding debts. Helped recruit the next CTO.
  • Digikala, e-commerce: Helped the Operations team launch a project that increased order processing throughput in three months against an eight-month plan by bringing product managers, designers, and engineers together to revisit priorities, avoid duplicate work, and improve communication.

    Delivery

    Launched 5 months ahead of plan

    Increased order processing throughput.

    8 months

    Planned

    3 months

    Delivered

    Nearly 200,000

    Orders processed daily at the time

    Digikala, Iran’s largest e-commerce platform.

  • Torob, price comparison: Shaped the strategy for expansion into Türkiye through market research, competitor analysis, and user interviews. Led the planning, implementation, and QA of product changes for the launch, which focused on electronic devices.

Divar

May 2020 - Nov 2020

Product Manager

Managed the real estate product at Iran's largest online classifieds platform, with about 35 million users and over 600,000 daily ads.

  • Worked with a pricing analyst to identify a gap between customers' willingness to pay and existing prices. Resulting price increases raised revenue to nearly 1.8x its previous level, despite a small decline in ad volume.
  • Conducted market analysis and interviewed realtors to define requirements for an enterprise panel and contributed to its launch.
  • Led product ideation, prioritization, and requirements planning, working with design, research, engineering, data science, business intelligence, and QA teams through implementation and release.

Various Companies

Mar 2018 - May 2020

Consultant

  • Namademan: Helped resolve technical bottlenecks in its Telegram bot, supporting growth from 18,000 to 60,000 users in two months. Helped plan and launch its application and define pricing, creating the company's first revenue stream.

    Architecture

    Namademan: stock market information aggregator

    Stock market sources on the left feed a processing group containing crawlers, sentiment analysis, a classifier, and moderation APIs. The group feeds the central Namademan Telegram bot, which sends updates to customers on the right.Telegramchannels andgroupsPrice APIsRegulatoryupdatesNews sourcesOther marketsourcesCrawlersSentimentanalysisClassifierModerationAPIsProcessingUpdatesCustomersNamademanTelegram bot
  • AxPrint, online photo printing: Persuaded the company to replace its Flash implementation with a PWA and oversaw the transition, significantly increasing mobile orders.
  • Burgerland, restaurant franchisor: Helped improve internal processes and data collection methods, reducing waste and increasing margins. Also helped set up Downtown Burger, its new premium brand.

Miare

Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Built software that supported growth from about 100 to more than 5,000 deliveries per day at this B2B food delivery company.

  • Planned and built an improved real-time operations dashboard using feedback from support operators, helping a small operations team manage increasing delivery volumes.
  • Worked with operations and sales to improve the product for restaurants and design a courier incentive system, supported by back-office accounting and courier-facing tools.
  • Oversaw DevOps, business analytics, and technical hiring and onboarding. Shortened release cycles and improved reliability through automated tests, peer code review, CI/CD, and gradual rollouts.

Growth

Deliveries per day

Various Companies

Nov 2015 - Mar 2017

Freelance Developer

Developed front-end and back-end software for multiple small and medium projects.

Gandom

Jun 2013 - Jul 2015

Co-Founder

Co-founded the company and helped plan, design, and build consumer mobile apps that reached a combined 400,000+ monthly active users at their peak.

Bitlock

Nov 2013 - Jun 2014

Software Engineer (remote)

Built a PhoneGap mobile app, back-office tools, and enterprise web dashboards for a San Francisco-based smart bike lock startup, helping it reach its Kickstarter funding goal.

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Rubako

Jan 2013 - Jul 2013

Front-end Developer

Developed front-end interfaces for custom software projects.