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I'm Imran — Tech Lead, Lead AI/ML Engineer, creator of Imran Codes.
Twelve years shipping production systems, now leading AI/ML engineering on Google Cloud. Still in the codebase every day.
I’m a hands-on Tech Lead with 12+ years shipping full-stack production systems. My day-to-day stack is TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL and Python, running on cloud-native infrastructure. I lead engineering teams, mentor developers into leadership, and still write code every day — reviewing every PR and owning the internal tooling teams run on.
I’m also a Lead AI/ML Engineer, bringing that same hands-on leadership to machine learning systems — training, evaluation, MLOps pipelines, and serving models in production on Google Cloud: Vertex AI, BigQuery and Cloud Run, alongside the full-stack work I already do.
The throughline across everything I build: internal tools, developer platforms, ML systems, and customer journeys that live under real audit, RBAC and data-handling constraints. Guardrails aren’t a blocker to me — they’re how I already work.
Beyond the day job, I teach on my YouTube channel, Imran Codes (1,500+ subscribers) — practical, no-fluff tutorials on modern software engineering, the same tools and patterns I use to ship production work.
- Hands-on guides for building secure, scalable apps with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node and Python.
- Deep dives into full-stack workflows — architecture, testing, DevOps, and shipping real production systems.
- AI/ML on Google Cloud — machine learning, MLOps, and production engineering from my day-to-day work.
- Free resources and e-books (worth £100+) when you join the newsletter.
- Engineering and leadership lessons from years of mentoring and leading teams.
When I’m not building systems or recording tutorials, you’ll find me in the gym — consistency, resilience and growth fuel both strong teams and strong bodies.
Whether you’re here to level up your engineering, go deeper on the stack, or step into leadership — welcome.
