Ali Hesari
Lead Platform & Security Engineer
I build secure platforms and ship my own products.
By day I lead platform and security engineering for a large classifieds platform, from Kubernetes to identity with Keycloak. The rest of the time I build FoPost, MakeV1, InkApex and RankDebug.
Projects
Each one runs on automation I built, from deploys to day-to-day operations, so they keep running while I'm at my day job.
FoPost
A social publishing platform that adapts one post for each network and schedules or publishes it for you.
fopost.com
MakeV1
A production-ready SaaS starter kit with auth, billing, admin and API already wired, so a team ships its v1 in days.
makev1.com
InkApex
An SEO content engine that plans keywords from competitors, writes sourced articles, reviews them with a second model and delivers them to your CMS.
inkapex.com
RankDebug
Finds why a website's search traffic changed and what to fix first, ranked by the clicks at stake.
rankdebug.com
HardenKit
A product for hardening the security of AI-native apps.
Coming soon
RealmDeploy
Managed Keycloak on Kubernetes, so teams get single sign-on with OAuth2 and OIDC without running the identity server themselves.
Coming soon
Open source
An MCP server that lets AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor schedule, publish and analyze social posts through FoPost.
A Laravel package for publishing to social networks from PHP applications.
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Writing
Zero Downtime Deployment for PHP on Kubernetes: A Full Guide
How to Use Claude Code in Large Codebases: A Practical Guide
How to Write a CLAUDE.md File That Claude Actually Follows
keycloak impersonation for support teams
AI Code Review Checklist for Teams: 9 Checks I'd Enforce
How to Review AI Generated Code: A Practical Guide
Keycloak on Kubernetes Setup: A Production-Ready Guide
How to Structure a Codebase for Scale and Maintainability
How I Rebuilt My 10-Year-Old Open Source Package with Cursor and Claude
What 10 Years of Maintaining an Open Source Package Actually Taught Me
