Ali Habibzadeh
Chief Technology Officer at Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl)
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAli Habibzadeh is a hands-on CTO with 10 years of experience scaling product-led engineering organizations and a decade-plus background in front-end and UX design. Based in Charlottesville, he transformed Deepcrawl (now Lumar) from a small team into a mature SaaS company, growing ARR from $1M to $12M, expanding engineering from 6 to 30, and securing $30M in funding across rounds. He combines deep technical fluency in large-scale web crawling, distributed data stacks (EMR, Athena, Presto, Glue, Kafka-esque patterns), TypeScript/Scala services, and IaC with practical product instincts honed as a former Head of UI. A pragmatic operator, Ali drove SOC2 compliance, modernized SDLC with high test coverage and automation, and built what the company calls the world’s most powerful extendable web crawler. He’s equally focused on culture, autonomous teams, and mentoring engineers, bringing an unusual blend of UX sensibility and infrastructure expertise to strategic board and investor conversations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Agile Product Owner Project Management, Certified Agile Product Owner Project Management at Scrum AllianceHND Computer science, HND Computer science at IntercollegeDiploma Audio Engineering, Diploma Audio Engineering at School of Audio EngineeringMCTS ASP.NET Web Applications, MCTS ASP.NET Web Applications at Firebrand Institute. BradfordMSC User Experience Design, MSC User Experience Design at University of Brighton
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
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typescript
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
automation10
firefox10
lighthouse10
audit10
auditing10
noindex10
binary-format10
chromium10
node-module10
cloud-infrastructure10
typescript-decorators10
cloud-development-kit10
chrome10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
deepcrawl/wix-dashboard
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 93 PRs, 115 pushes in 9 months
deepcrawl/tslint-config-deepcrawl
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
DeepCrawl Common TypeScript language rules
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 months
typescripttslinttslint-configtslint-rules
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