Ali Hesari

Senior Platform & Identity Engineer

I run the platform behind a classifieds site with 400K+ users. I moved it from bare metal to Kubernetes, took releases from once a week to five with zero downtime, and manage identity as code with Keycloak and Terraform.

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Writing

How to Structure a Codebase for Scale and Maintainability
July 23, 2026
What 10 Years of Maintaining an Open Source Package Actually Taught Me
February 6, 2026
How I Rebuilt My 10-Year-Old Open Source Package with Cursor and Claude
February 6, 2026

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Book notes

Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon – Summary, Notes & Highlights
July 12, 2026
The Manager's Path – Summary With Notes and Highlights
July 12, 2026
Staff Engineering by Will Larson – Summary With Notes and Highlights
July 5, 2026