Irfan Kahvedžić

Vienna, Austria

Full-stack product engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building AI products for the senior living industry.

irfan.kahvedzic.net
[email protected]

Skills & Expertise

I'm a product-minded engineer who cares about UX and UI design. My work spans the whole stack, and I like owning what I build, including how it runs in production and whether people actually use it.

Scaling a SaaS product is something I learned largely the hard way. Most of my recent work has been on AI products.

In my spare time I work on side projects. One of them, panelq.com, is a live Q&A app for events, and right now I'm also writing a game in Rust and an inference engine for open-weight models in CUDA.

Work Experience

Further Technologies

Remote (from Vienna, Austria)

Staff Software Engineer

Mar 2025 - Present

  • Architected Further's AI agents product line
  • Created AI sales training where reps practice calls with an AI prospect
  • Designed AI coaching that scores real sales calls and tours
  • Shipped an iOS and Android app for AI coaching on in-person sales tours

Tech Lead

Mar 2023 - Mar 2025

  • Led the team behind a website chat that turns visitors into leads and booked tours
  • Designed the configurable chat engine used on customer websites
  • Introduced A/B testing that measures chat changes against leads, tours and move-ins
  • Launched self-service onboarding that builds a customer's chat by scanning their website

Senior Software Developer

Sep 2020 - Mar 2023

  • Joined as an early engineer and worked across the whole stack, including infrastructure
  • Developed the analytics that show customers where their leads and move-ins come from
  • Automated email and SMS follow-up with leads
  • Redesigned visitor tracking for all customer websites with zero downtime

Mistral

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lead Architect

Feb 2019 - Sep 2020

  • Set up the teams and architecture for new client projects
  • Oversaw delivery across ongoing client projects
  • Led the technical side of sales, helping win new clients

Tech Lead

Oct 2016 - Feb 2019

  • Led a team of engineers, designers and testers building a consumer web app for AT&T
  • Doubled the team and the account's revenue as AT&T expanded our scope
  • Set up the release pipeline and engineering practices the team shipped with

Software Developer

Jul 2014 - Oct 2016

  • Joined AT&T's in-car infotainment R&D project on day one
  • Delivered several of its apps on prototype hardware
  • Wrote the UI component library that made those apps look and feel native

Media Plus

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

3D Graphics Programmer (part-time)

Jul 2013 - May 2015

  • Produced 3D graphics that updated on air from live results data
  • Programmed on-air graphics the control room could drive in real time

Education

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Programme Computing and Informatics

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo
2010 - 2014 (dropped out)

Electrical Engineering Technician, Power Systems Engineering

Electrical Engineering Technical School "Kemal Kapetanović", Kakanj
2006 - 2010