I build the systems and the teams.

Engineering leader, fifteen years. I built an engineering department from five people to thirty-five, served as acting CTO for two SaaS products, and run an organisation that ships AI into production — for clients, and for ourselves.

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Executive snapshot

35+
Engineers led, across 4 cross-functional teams
5 → 35
Department grown, over fifteen years
2
SaaS products served as acting CTO
15 yrs
One company, four promotions
10M+ / day
Peak platform throughput under my ownership
3
AI systems in production
AWS
Production workloads
Azure
Including full-architecture migrations
Google Cloud
Production workloads
Linode · DigitalOcean
And other providers

What my teams ship

Purchase orders reach my client from across India, every state in its own format. My team built a system where a vision model reads them and a language model normalises them — a task that took one person six to eight hours a day became a thirty-to-sixty-minute review. I set the architecture, chose the model strategy and owned the client relationship. Sample values below are illustrative.

Technology leadership

Selected work

Flagship · Leadership

Scaling an engineering organisation from five to thirty-five

Built an engineering department from five people to thirty-five across four teams, and kept most of them.

5 → 35
Engineers, over fifteen years
4
Cross-functional teams
4
Promotions, one company
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Engineering headcount, 2010 → 2026

Engineering headcount grew from five in 2010 to thirty-five in 2026, and from one team to four. Four role changes are marked: PHP Developer in 2010, Team Lead in 2011, Technical Manager in 2012, and Head of Development in 2017. Intermediate years are indicative of the growth curve rather than exact records.

leadership

Rolling out AI-assisted development across thirty-five engineers

GenXAI Softgrid

Evaluated, piloted and rolled out GitHub Copilot and then Claude Code across four engineering squads.

35+ Engineers onboarded
The Upviral marketing homepage hero, 'Traffic. Leads. Sales. Exponentially.', beside a dashboard-style analytics mockup
executive

Acting CTO for a viral marketing SaaS at a million hits a day

Upviral

Acting CTO for five years for a viral marketing platform, scaling it past a million daily hits.

1M+ / day Requests at peak
The Feedify marketing homepage hero, 'Send Push Notifications', with customer logos from press and publishers below
scale

Ten million push notifications a day

Feedify

Browser push notification SaaS delivering over ten million notifications a day.

10M+ / day Notifications delivered
cloud

Multiple cloud migrations, up to a full platform architecture

Company products and client engagements

AWS to Azure and on-premises to Azure migrations, from single servers to a complete platform architecture.

AWS · Azure · GCP Major clouds in production
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The other half of the job

Systems are the easy part. People are the work.

I've spent fifteen years at one company, which is unusual, and I think it's the most useful thing on my CV. I joined as a PHP developer in 2010 and built the engineering department from five people to thirty-five — hiring them, training them, promoting them, and keeping most of them.

That's the number I care about. Traffic figures are a function of good architecture. Retention is a function of whether people actually want to work for you.

I'd rather have a team that stays than a stack that impresses.
Mohammad Ali FaneeIndore → anywhere

Experience

  1. Jun 2017 – Present

    Head of Development GenXAI Softgrid (formerly SoftGrid Computers)

    SoftGrid Computers merged with GenXAI and rebranded in December 2024.

  2. 2019 – 2024

    Acting CTO Upviral

    Engagement held alongside the role above.

  3. 2017 – 2020

    Acting CTO Connectio

    Engagement held alongside the role above.

  4. Aug 2012 – Jun 2017

    Technical Manager SoftGrid Computers

  5. May 2011 – Aug 2012

    Team Lead SoftGrid Computers

  6. Jul 2010 – May 2011

    PHP Developer SoftGrid Computers

Contact

I'm open to Engineering Leader, Head of Engineering, VP of Engineering and CTO roles, including international relocation.

mohammad.fani.05@gmail.com Connect on LinkedIn Download CV (PDF)
Based
Indore, India
Relocation
Open, international