# 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.

## About

- [About](https://alihesari.com/about)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/alihesari)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alihesari)
- [Contact](https://alihesari.com/contact)

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## Articles

- ["SaaS Is Dead": Why You Should Ignore Every "X Is Dead" Headline](https://alihesari.com/business/saas-is-dead) - 2026-08-03
- [How to Structure a Codebase for Scale and Maintainability](https://alihesari.com/software-development/how-to-structure-a-codebase-for-scale) - 2026-07-23
- [How I Rebuilt My 10-Year-Old Open Source Package with Cursor and Claude](https://alihesari.com/ai/rebuilding-open-source-package-with-cursor-and-claude) - 2026-02-06
- [What 10 Years of Maintaining an Open Source Package Actually Taught Me](https://alihesari.com/software-development/ten-years-maintaining-open-source-package) - 2026-02-06

## Book notes

- [Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon – Summary, Notes & Highlights](https://alihesari.com/book-notes/business/show-your-work) - 2026-07-12
- [The Manager's Path – Summary With Notes and Highlights](https://alihesari.com/book-notes/software-development/the-manager-s-path) - 2026-07-12
- [Staff Engineering by Will Larson – Summary With Notes and Highlights](https://alihesari.com/book-notes/software-development/staff-engineering) - 2026-07-05