Ali Nademi
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Engineering Leader · North Vancouver

I buildteams thatship.

Senior engineering leader. Half code, half people. 10 years full-stack, 5 years managing engineers across enterprise clients.

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Ali NademiEngineering Leader
01 — What I do

Not a pure IC.
Not a pure manager.
I sit in between.

I architect solutions, lead teams of engineers, run hiring and reviews, own client relationships, and still write code when it matters.

Current focus: WordPress / headless CMS platforms, AI-assisted workflows, and modernizing legacy systems without breaking production.

LEAD
02 — Leadership

How I run
a team

016 direct reports across two organizations
02Hiring to offboarding, sprint planning, performance reviews, mentoring
03Half my time with engineers, half with clients and stakeholders
04I push technical decisions down to the people closest to the problem
“Cut a multi-hour client workflow to minutes by shipping an AI agent the team now owns and maintains.”
03 — Selected work

What I've built

01

WordPress MCP Server

Content teams drafting by hand, cut off from AI tooling. I architected and built a WordPress MCP server.

→ Wired live to AI agents for content drafting, owned by the team.

02

Headless CMS Architecture

Enterprise clients outgrowing monolithic WordPress. I led the architecture.

→ Headless platforms decoupling content from delivery across clients.

03

AI Practice Buildout

No internal AI capability at Kalamuna. I built the practice from the ground up.

→ LangGraph, Pydantic AI and Azure OpenAI shipped into production workflows.

04

RFP Ingestion Tool

Multi-hour manual RFP review. I shipped an AI-powered ingestion agent.

→ Cut the workflow from hours to minutes; the team now maintains it.

04 — Stack
LanguagesPHP · Python · TypeScript · JavaScript
FrameworksWordPress · React · LangGraph · Pydantic AI
InfrastructureDocker · CI/CD · GitHub Actions
APIsGraphQL · REST
AIAzure OpenAI · LangGraph · Pydantic AI · MCP
05 — Video intro

Prefer to hear it directly?

A recruiter asked for a video intro. I made a few. They've opened more doors than my resume.

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06 — Writing

Latest writing

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LeadershipApr 2026 · 5 min

Push the decision to the edge

Why I hand technical calls to the engineer closest to the problem — and how to do it without losing the plot.

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AIMar 2026 · 7 min

Ship an AI agent your team will actually own

A working agent is the easy part. Building one your team can read, debug and maintain is the job.

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CareerFeb 2026 · 4 min

Half code, half people

Notes on living between the IC and manager tracks without falling off either.

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07 — Contact

Let's talk

Based in North Vancouver. Open to remote engineering leadership roles.

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