Imran Rahimov
SOFTWARE ENGINEER & FOUNDER

Imran
Rahimov

🚀 Founder of aitools.az

📍 Baku, Azerbaijan

📧 [email protected]

📱 +994 51 666 20 66

Software Engineer & AI Startup Founder with a proven growth journey from IT Assistant and System Administrator to Backend Engineer. I design scalable, maintainable backend systems and AI/RAG-driven platforms that support real business operations.

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Professional Summary

Software Engineer & AI Startup Founder with a proven growth journey from IT Assistant and System Administrator to Backend Engineer. I design scalable, maintainable backend systems and AI/RAG-driven platforms that support real business operations. I collaborate effectively within Agile teams, focus on performance, reliability and process automation, and continuously evolve my engineering approach to deliver long-term value and product impact.

Technical Skills

AI & RAG Pipelines

RAG Pipelines OpenAI NLP Embeddings Entity Extraction Intent Analysis NER Message Classification

Languages

Python JavaScript

Backend

Django DRF FastAPI

Databases & Caching

PostgreSQL Redis MongoDB Vector DB Query Optimization

Async & Real-time

Async/Concurrency Django Channels WebSockets Celery Event-Driven

Automation

Selenium Chrome Extension

DevOps & Infrastructure

Docker Kubernetes Linux CI/CD Git

Monitoring & Testing

Grafana Prometheus Loki Promtail Sentry ELK Pytest

Frontend

HTML/CSS JavaScript React Bootstrap Tailwind

Methodologies

SOLID Agile Jira

Work Experience

CTO & Founder

AITOOLS (aitools.az)

Baku, Azerbaijan

June 2025 - Present

Building AI-powered business solutions:

Customer-Facing AI Agent Sales Automation Platform Support Ticket RAG System AI-Enabled CRM news.aitools.az
  • ▹ Customer-Facing AI Agent - intelligent sales assistant for Telegram/WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook
  • ▹ Sales Automation Platform - AI-driven purchase flows, conversion support, and lead qualification
  • ▹ Support Ticket RAG System - automated ticket routing, classification, and response generation
  • ▹ AI-Enabled CRM - customer lifecycle management with insight-driven workflows
  • ▹ news.aitools.az - open-source news chat with analytics & conversational Q&A using embeddings, entity extraction, and interactive visualization
  • ▹ Architected scalable, asynchronous backend services (Python, FastAPI) using event-driven architecture, Celery, and WebSockets
  • ▹ Designed full RAG pipelines including data ingestion, preprocessing, retrieval, filtering, ranking, message classification, intent analysis, and NER/NLP processing
  • ▹ Built cross-platform integrations with Meta APIs and third-party providers
  • ▹ Implemented query caching with Redis, automated testing, containerized deployments (Docker), CI/CD pipelines
  • ▹ Production-grade monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Promtail - ensuring secure, reliable, and maintainable AI systems

Python Backend Developer

Ezgil MMC (ezgil.az)

Baku, Azerbaijan

December 2024 - January 2025
Full Time

Developed multiple healthcare and hospitality platforms:

naftalan.biz mdportal.az medcheckup.az Vaccination App ecourses.az
  • ▹ Designed and developed scalable, reliable backend systems for healthcare and hospitality
  • ▹ Implemented authentication, payments, and third-party integrations
  • ▹ Automated testing and deployments, ensured stable production performance
  • ▹ Maintained industry standards and patient data security
  • ▹ Managed the development team

Python Backend Developer

Webpro (webpro.az)

Baku, Azerbaijan

October 2023 - November 2024
Part Time

High-load e-commerce platforms:

bonyo.az 🔗 acriera.com (Google Play) b2club.az (Google Play)
  • ▹ Developed scalable backend systems in a microservices architecture
  • ▹ Optimized PostgreSQL databases (schema design, indexing, query tuning)
  • ▹ Implemented task queues with Celery, authentication, payments, and third-party integrations
  • ▹ Ensured stable production performance for high-load applications
  • ▹ Developed custom Selenium bots to bypass Cloudflare and automate critical business processes
  • ▹ Worked in Agile teams, managing development processes and delivering reliable backend solutions

Software Engineer

Global Logistics (glb.ge)

Georgia

July 2023 - October 2023
Project Based
  • ▹ Developed a secure microservice-based platform and Chrome Extension used daily by ~700 auto dealers
  • ▹ Built system for working with Copart, IAAI, and Manheim auctions without exposing master-account credentials
  • ▹ Implemented secure multi-account dealer access, action logging & screenshots for audit
  • ▹ Engineered Selenium bots for vehicle-purchase data collection
  • ▹ Built backend aggregation & synchronization services using Django REST
  • ▹ Deployed monitoring via Sentry for stable, production-grade processing at scale

Software Engineer

Bionet (bionet.az)

Baku, Azerbaijan

February 2023 - July 2023
Project Based
  • ▹ Built an OCR-driven logistics service for 166 Cargo to automate package ID/track-number recognition
  • ▹ Implemented digital-scale weight capture with real-time REST API sync

Full Stack Developer

VR production (vrproduction.az)

Baku, Azerbaijan

January 2022 - January 2023
  • ▹ Developed 10+ corporate landing pages and client websites
  • ▹ Built travel-data collector platform with 20M+ records stored in PostgreSQL
  • ▹ Created SMM-focused internal CRM tool automating social-media workflows
  • ▹ Led full-stack development (Django MVT), built REST APIs (Django REST Framework)
  • ▹ Implemented data scraping pipelines, optimized database performance

System Administrator / Software Engineer

Azerbaijan National Museum of Art

nationalartmuseum.az - Baku, Azerbaijan

September 2020 - January 2022
  • ▹ nationalartmuseum.az - public-facing site with galleries, events, and optimized images
  • ▹ Gallery Management System - internal system for managing exhibits and media
  • ▹ Interactive Exhibit Screens - on-site interactive pages providing visitors with exhibition information
  • ▹ Served as system administrator, maintaining Linux/Windows servers for continuous uptime
  • ▹ Developed and optimized the museum website for high traffic on limited resources

Education & Languages

Education

Information Security

Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications

Ukraine

2013 - 2017

Languages

Excellent (C1)

Azerbaijani Russian Turkish

Upper Intermediate (B2)

English

Get In Touch

Interested in collaboration or have a project in mind?
Let's create something amazing together!

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Email

[email protected]
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Phone

+994 51 666 20 66
🚀 Visit aitools.az