Melika Vaez
I build and ship consumer products end to end — product, design, and the build itself. Fintech, marketplaces, and games.
Built a consumer games product from an empty repo to a national TV campaign
Games, a mission map, a weekly competition, and a live economy for WallGold. On national TV. Shipping an update a day.
Grew a used-phone marketplace to 1.5M monthly users on organic search alone
Inspection, pricing, and resale for used phones. No paid acquisition, ever.
Replaced attendance hardware with a single classroom photo
The teacher photographs the room. Image processing marks everyone present. No scanner, no card, no queue.
Led a 7-person fintech team on a product that never launched
Connecting a bank card directly to a gold account. War, then cost cuts. It did not ship, and this is the honest account of it.
Five things a product can ask you to own. This is which of them each job actually handed me — and GoldCup is the first time I have owned the build.
Graphic design. I made things look right and had no say in whether they were right.
PM and designer on a used-phone marketplace. It reached 1.5M people a month without buying a single click.
Product director, designer, and a team at once. Deployed across universities, SAMPAD, and every branch of Iran's largest tutoring network.
My own juice shop, and never a quiet one. No roadmap, no team to escalate to — rent, stock, and whether the door opened.
PM for seven to eight people on card-to-gold. Banking rails and regulation. It never launched.
Product, design, and I take the builds and ship them myself. An update a day.