Graduated in February 2019, after defending my thesis, "A Game with Auto Generating Quests Using Genetic Programming". I was under the supervision of professor Michael Winter (webpage). Machine learning was a big part of the project, therefore, I have passed courses related to it like: "Evolutionary Computation".

In the second semester, I started teaching "Human-Computer Interaction Design" which is about user interaction, experience and interface design (UX&UI). Being ready for students questions I had to read all course materials, including Alan Cooper's "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum" and his "About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design", as well as Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things". Reading each of these books gave me an invaluable insight into software design and how to make products that users love.
As my other Teaching-Assistance job, I have led Robotics lab, working with Arduino kits to make a line-tracking robot.

I completed my software engineering degree from this highly-ranked institution. I successfully completed all the credits and got 3.67/4 grade (major courses). I have learned how to be a computer engineer, on management and model designing side; As well as how to be a handy software developer myself.

Furthermore, I have learned fundamental software engineering topics such as Data-Structures, Database design, Operating Systems. In addition to newer more advanced topics such as NoSQL databases which I have worked with Redis, MongoDB and Neo4j. Working alongside my study gave me a unique opportunity to use what I learned in real-world problems, for example, SQL database design and Redis for caching.

Among all the exciting projects I have done in school, I especially like the very first one which I have created the best graphical game of mine, SuperMario which was almost identical to the original game's first level.

In this special school for talented students (Wikipedia), I completed all the credits and got A⁺ grade overall. During the first two years of my study, I got familiar with Object-Oriented-Programing and created my first AI-powered game, PacMan, as part of my course project. I have also used Genetic Algorithm for the first time, to solve the Traveling-Salesman-Problem and presented it in school's annual exhibition.

In the second year, computer programing class, I have learned basic principles of Web-Development using PHP and JavaScript.

Part of NODET (Wikipedia) schools, Allameh-Helli had a nation-wide entrance exam to pick only exceptionally talented students, and students study subjects in depth, similar to college courses, in which I completed my study with A⁺ grade overall.

In the very first year of my seven years study in NODET, I got introduced to computer programing in Pascal, and created a handful of projects for computer courses as well as the school's bi-yearly exhibition. Most of my projects were 2D games, like a spaceship run game.

Roles:

• Implemented new modules for the web platform oanda.com website is running on
• Collaborated closely with marketing team to implement new features to improve OANDA's online presence
• Interviewed and mentored co-op students to become effective members of the development team
• In charge of daily standup meetings and reporting to management

Technologies used: Django (Python), Docker, Heroku, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GitHub

I have experienced a fully remote working environment, with daily video scrum meetings. I have got familiar with another PHP CMS, named SilverStripe, somewhat similar to the one I worked with before, Laravel. Learned to test on staging servers and then to qualify on periodically production releases. Disciplined, documented workflow, using planning tools like Liquid Planner at some point and then we moved to JIRA. For development management, we use Bitbucket. Locally I have installed a Git versioned Vagrant instance to run the server on.

Roles:

• Increased the number of active customers by 1500 and added Alipay as a new payment method by using Alipay’s API to create orders and taking advantage of Ubersmith’s billing system integration with Alipay to allow the newly acquired company, Lunarpages, customers to continue using Alipay in their accounts.
• Improved domain search/suggestion performance by using Angular lifecycle hooks to only trigger suggestions request for unavailable domains.
• Refactored a Wordpress project by using composer and updated Nginx rules to match the new project.
• Encouraged more customers to have their services renewed annually by integrating PayPal's billing agreement to allow submitting recurring PayPal payments.
• Created detailed Jira tasks based on management's requirements (For SendInBlue email management, Geo located servers and SiteLock to Comodo Protection Power service migration projects.)

Technologies used: SilverStripe (PHP), Vagrant, Bitbucket pipeline, Phan, Stan, SendInBlue, Loggly, HealthCheck, NewRelic, AWS lambda

On February 2016, I received a job offer from a small team of Bamilo's ex-employees, including its founder. Although the company was a small startup, I have accepted the offer because of its energetic work environment and well-engineered projects.
I have started my job in Nabzino, by helping them customize and maintain a Wordpress magazine website, chetor.com (Alexa rank). Then I continued my work by developing an interactive learning website from scratch, pro.chetor.com. It was late 2016 when one of my colleagues and I started architecting and developing an online advertising platform, Yektanet.com (Alexa rank), powered by AI, with similarities to Google Ads. It had a unique design and AI help this project to become a big success after only 6 months, I was continueing support and development of the project's modules, especially its "Fraud Detecting" system, even after I moved to Canada in summer 2017.

I have moved to Canada on July 20th, to study Computer Science, but still, I am in contact with my old boss and colleagues and following news of their success. To name a few, "chetor.com" has won the best online website about lifestyle three years in a row, and "yektanet.com" won the best advertising platform of the year and now is sponsoring many technology-related conferences and events.

Roles:

Yektanet project:

• Defined project requirements and created high-level architectural specifications, which ensured performance with a great number of visitors and their tracking data.
• Recruited and managed a junior development team to meet the growing project's expectations.
• Divided the project into more than 10 independent micro-systems, deployed on separate servers to enhance performance and isolate server failures.
• Load balanced the incoming web traffic onto more than 15 servers with their own databases and cached by Redis. To have a unified data, servers were sending hourly updates to the master server, via a secured API call.

Technologies used: Django (Python), REST APIs, Redis, PostgreSQL, JIRA, GitLab.

Chetor project:

• Improved page load time to under 5 seconds by developing customized WordPress plugins and themes. Plus using methods like lazy-loading and responsive image sizes to enhance the user experience further.
• Developed an RSS-feed manager to allow content managers to enqueue and schedule articles in different feeds.

Technologies used: Wordpress (Plug-in and Theme development plus maintenance), GIT, jQuery, Bootstrap.

Chetor-Pro project:

• Architected an interactive learning platform that tracks user learning progress, suggests related articles and courses and issues certificates by designing database relations, Django modules, and front-end components.
• Setup JIRA for the development team and managed tasks by sprint planning. Held weekly meetings with managers to report progress and collaborated with the head of writers to make the writers’ dashboard easier to use for writers.
• Developed a functional CMS with dashboards for both writers and users by implementing the MVC architecture.
• Designed UI/UX to create a unified and easy-to-use interface that encourage users to read more articles.

Technologies used: Django (Python), PostgreSQL, JIRA, GitLab.

A big change in my professional career, I got into a huge international company with more than 300 people working in a 5 story office. Bamilo were one of the biggest online shopping companies in Iran, a startup funded by "Rocket Internet" (website).
(Unfortunately, in February 2019 Bamilo stopped working because financial sanctions had prevented international companies from operating in Iran. Therefore, German-based company, Rocket Internet had to close Bamilo.)
I have faced many challenges in Bamilo, such as English speaking environment and tight deadlines. But thankfully I got adapted soon and well. My primary duty was to create a connection between intra-systems by crawling and querying daily tasks.

Roles:

• Automated daily data migration between several applications by web crawling their dashboards and using their APIs.
• Developed a dashboard with easy-to-use UI, using Laravel (PHP) CMS, that allowed data analysts to schedule data migration and to build queries using the dashboard (selecting fields, conditions and sorting the results).
• Created a Telegram Bot (Telegram is a messaging app for mobiles, desktops, and web) suggesting gifts based on a 4-6 number of questions asked from the user through a simple conversation.
• Implemented front-end of un/subscribing pages using Bootstrap 3, based on a given design in Photoshop.

Technologies used: Laravel (PHP), PhpStorm, Bootstrap 3, JIRA, GIT

I have started working in this web-development company, which still creates personal or business websites using the CMS developed in the company using CodeIgniter. As early projects, I have been creating static pages using Twitter Bootstrap, CSS3 and JQuery. Soon I have learned CMS development using PHP and CodeIgniter platform.

Since the company was small in size, I often had to work on both Fron-End and Back-End of the projects, and sometimes interact with customers, briefly.

Roles:

• Developed customized CMS based on CodeIgniter (PHP), tailored to client’s needs.
• Implemented +20 front-end web templates, based on the given design in Photoshop approved by the users.

Technologies used: CodeIgniter (PHP), PhpStorm, Bootstrap 3, TortoiseSVN