Senior software and cloud engineer with nearly nine years of experience designing and operating scalable AI and software systems. Currently the founding platform engineer at SEPANTA (formerly Goodfolio), building the company's entire Google Cloud foundation. Strong across backend engineering (FastAPI, Python, Golang), applied AI and NLP, and cloud-native infrastructure (GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform), with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and experience leading engineering teams.
Professional experience
SEPANTA (formerly Goodfolio Ltd) — United KingdomSep 2024 – Present
Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer (Founding) Feb 2026 – Present
Built a greenfield Google Cloud organisation solo: Shared VPC networking, private GKE (Autopilot), org-policy and IAM governance, and keyless CI via Workload Identity Federation.
Automated all infrastructure delivery through 11 review-gated, CI-only Terraform pipelines on GitHub Actions; set up org-wide observability and cloud-cost visibility.
Own reliability and operations across products: deployments on Cloud Run and GKE, monitoring, logging, secrets, and incident response.
Software & Machine Learning Engineer Sep 2024 – Feb 2026
Designed scalable FastAPI services over PostgreSQL and Neo4j and built CI/CD pipelines to GCP.
Delivered generative-AI product features; implemented vector search with AlloyDB and self-hosted LLM observability (Langfuse on GKE, provisioned via Terraform).
Built and fine-tuned English–Persian neural machine-translation models (BLEU 45, MarianNMT) over 200M+ tokens; deployed production services (Docker, Flask) translating 100,000 words/min.
Raypo — Tehran, IranMay 2018 – Sep 2018
Backend Developer
Built a customer-loyalty platform with Django and DRF; background tasks with Celery and Redis.
ParsaTech — Tehran, IranAug 2017 – Jul 2018
Server & Technical Support Engineer
Deployed and supported IPTV product servers on Linux and built local test environments for QA.
Education
University of Tehran — Tehran, Iran2018 – 2021
M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
Thesis: "End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation Based on Sequence-to-Sequence Networks" (Supervisor: Dr. Heshaam Faili). Built two English–Persian speech corpora and a Telegram crowdsourcing platform; end-to-end models outperformed the cascaded baseline (+5.7 BLEU).
University of Tehran — Tehran, Iran2012 – 2017
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (hardware focus)
Selected projects
NuStream (formerly Libera) · SEPANTA — retail data & insight platform; FastAPI APIs, LLM product auto-categorisation, and the cell-per-country GCP foundation across three markets.
Finspector· SEPANTA / Finspector.AI — AI-driven financial-marketing compliance platform; cloud/DevOps ownership plus backend on the agentic pipeline.
SumX· Mofid Securities — call-centre speech & analytics platform (5M+ calls); led architecture and a self-built 12-node Docker Swarm cluster.
Smart Outbound Call Service· Mofid Securities — automated SIP-based outbound communication with dynamic, resilient call flows; Golang & Python.
Faraazin MT Platform· Vira Afzar Adan — English–Persian neural machine translation, trained and served in production.