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Parham Tehrani, senior backend engineer

I design and build backends with PHP and Laravel: APIs, data models, search, and the architecture around them. My work centres on systems that have to stay fast and dependable while the product, the traffic, and the team grow.

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Parham Tehrani, Senior Backend Engineer

At a glance

Current role
Lead Backend Developer — Filimo
Experience
6+ years, since 2020
Focus
Backend architecture, APIs, performance
Available for
Freelance and contract projects, technical consulting
Professional experience

Professional experience

The roles below are the ones I can describe publicly. Each one shaped how I approach architecture, performance, and delivery today.

Lead Backend Developer · Filimo

Video-on-demand streaming platform with millions of users.
  • Designed and led the backend architecture of high-traffic media services used by millions of people.
  • Drove critical refactors for performance, reliability, and more modular code.
  • Ran architecture reviews and mentored a team of 5+ backend engineers.
  • Kept high-traffic media services at 99.99% uptime.
Backend architectureHigh trafficReliabilityRefactoringTeam leadership

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Lead Backend Developer (contract) · ShavaZ

Online store for cosmetics and personal-care products.
  • Architected the complete backend of the store.
  • Integrated inventory, payment gateways, and customer modules.
  • Implemented Elasticsearch for real-time product search and filtering.
  • Mentored junior developers and wrote the team’s backend guidelines.
E-commerceElasticsearchPaymentsIntegrations

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Backend Developer · Riiha

Cosmetics product-data aggregation.
  • Built a crawling system that collects cosmetics product data.
  • Handled ingestion and processing of large-scale product data with Laravel and MongoDB.
  • Improved the performance and reliability of the data pipeline.
LaravelMongoDBCrawlingData pipelines

Full-stack Developer · Faradars

Iranian online learning platform offering video courses across hundreds of subjects.
  • Maintained and improved the core LMS backend.
  • Optimised SQL queries, reducing page load times by up to 35%.
  • Shipped feature rollouts and made background jobs more reliable.
SQL optimisationLMSBackground jobs

Related writing: MySQL Indexing for Laravel Applications: A Field Guide

Skills

Areas of expertise

The technologies I use most, grouped by the problems they solve. Each area links to a service and to articles where I explain my approach in detail.

Selected work

Selected client projects

Other websites and platforms I have worked on.

E-commerce

Lapmal

An electronics e-commerce platform focused on product discovery, a scalable catalog, and dependable store operations.

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Transportation

RWT

The digital presence of a railway transportation company, presenting specialized business services clearly.

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Books & retail

Avangard

An online bookstore combining a content-rich catalog with product discovery and purchasing journeys.

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Writing

I publish practical guides on Laravel architecture, performance, APIs, and production operations — in Persian and in English.

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Need a backend engineer for your product?

Tell me what you are building, where it is today, and what is getting in the way. I will reply with a concrete next step.

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