Irfan Ali
Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer · 8+ yearsBerlin, Germany
I build production systems that scale, from European retail platforms serving millions of users to AI products with real paying customers.
8+
years of experience
12
production systems shipped
3
products built and run solo
About
I'm a full-stack engineer who has spent the last eight years building software that real businesses depend on: price comparison at idealo, retail systems for MediaMarktSaturn, telemedicine for the NHS, and booking infrastructure serving millions of customers.
These days most of my work combines solid backend engineering with applied AI: RAG pipelines over medical data with human-in-the-loop review, autonomous marketing agents with content safety layers, and multi-platform AI assistants built on MCP and tool calling. I also build and run my own products. checkview.io is a multi-tenant AI testing SaaS with paying customers that I designed, built, and operate end to end.

Production first
I've migrated live platforms with millions of daily users without downtime. Idempotency, retries, row-level locking, and graceful degradation come standard in everything I ship.
AI with guardrails
Every AI system I ship has structured output enforcement, fallback paths, and cost governance. Where the stakes demand it, a human stays in the loop: AI recommendations for doctors get reviewed by doctors.
Ownership end to end
Frontend, backend, infrastructure, CI/CD, billing, observability. I'm most effective when I can own a problem across the whole stack, whether solo or leading a team.
Projects
Work that runs in production.
AttendAnywhere
NHS telemedicine platform used heavily during COVID for clinician-patient video consultations. Built the video conferencing layer, including group consultations of up to 50 participants in a single call, with patient data handled under UK healthcare regulations.
- Video conferencing for NHS clinician-patient sessions at COVID-era scale
- Group consultations of up to 50 participants
- Patient data handled under the UK healthcare regulatory framework
Skills
The stack I reach for.
Frontend
Backend
Databases
AI & LLM
Cloud & Infrastructure
Payments & Integrations
Real-time
Testing & Quality
Let's build something.
If you have a product to ship or an AI system that needs to work in production, I'm one email away.