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Senior cloud and platform engineer with 20+ years of experience mostly focused on designing and building cloud native, client facing, highly scalable and secure applications across AWS, GCP and Azure with end to end ownership of development, infrastructure, automation and security. Recently focused on enabling LLM/RAG and agentic systems.
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Work Experience
Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer - Contract at FINRA
April 1, 2020 - PresentPlanned, developed and deployed backend services and front-end applications to AWS and GCP; led integration of multiple chatbot and agent vendors across FINRA portals with SSO implementation, governance and monitoring; managed cloud resources using IaC (Terraform for GCP, Groovy + CloudFormation for AWS); created and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins (Groovy) and GitLab CI; developed and maintained Akamai properties for traffic routing, security and caching; performed code reviews, production deployments, and mentoring; supported continuous improvements in code quality, reliability, and security posture; onboarded new engineers.
Founder and Principal Engineer at 2578148 Ontario Inc. (Maple Rag)
January 1, 2017 - PresentBuilt a multilingual LLM-powered RAG chat assistant for government of Canada web contents; implemented auto scraping/ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, citations and guardrails using LangChain, LangGraph, Postgres with pgvector, LangSmith, prompt engineering, and AWS Bedrock for LLMs; set up CI/CD pipeline on GitHub Actions and deployed to Azure Container Apps; implemented nightly web scraping jobs with version control.
Lead Front End Developer at Sym-Tech
October 1, 2019 - April 1, 2020Led modernization of the React/Redux-based F&I Performance app to Angular; set up NX mono repo and CI/CD pipelines, enhancing build consistency and code quality.
Lead Full Stack Developer (Contract - Part Time) at PwC, Toronto
March 1, 2018 - December 1, 2020Built dashboards and tools supporting cybersecurity and data analysis initiatives using Node, NestJS, and React; developed Red Teaming Dashboard/API for CIBC and cloud-deployed applications for BMO; collaborated on secure design and deployment practices across AWS and GCP.
Senior Front End Developer - Contract at Rogers Communications
May 1, 2019 - October 1, 2019Migrated fido.ca and rogers.com from AngularJS to Angular 7 in a micro app architecture; created reusable components, wrote unit tests, and optimized performance and reliability.
Senior Developer Consultant - Contract at Cision, Toronto
July 1, 2017 - May 1, 2019Worked on the Global Portal, integrating services and web jobs hosted on AWS; performed code reviews, introduced static code analysis tools, and contributed to improving application resilience.
Development Team Lead – Full Time at Morneau Shepell
July 1, 2016 - July 1, 2017Managed a team of 12 developers delivering Absence Management Solutions; improved search performance through ElasticSearch; implemented efficient deployment processes; promoted consistent coding standards and quality-focused development practices.
Lead .NET Developer – Full Time at Medcan Clinic
August 1, 2014 - July 1, 2016Led enterprise development projects, modernized legacy systems, and enhanced overall code quality; introduced Scrum methodology and TFS for better version control and delivery management.
Sr. Software Developer / Architect – Full Time at iLogic Inc.
August 1, 2013 - August 1, 2014Designed and implemented new modules for enterprise-level asset tracking SaaS solutions on Azure; software architect and lead developer.
Software Architect, Lead Developer at Lohan Systems Inc., Iran
January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2013Designed and implemented a Hospital Information System with reliability and data integrity at its core.
Application Developer and IT Consultant at Delasa Inc., Iran
January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2013Developed and maintained customized applications for financial and clinical operations; built a real-time clinical research platform for physicians emphasizing performance and reliability.
Education
M.Sc. in Management of Medical Information Technology at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2007Qualifications
Industry Experience
Software & Internet, Financial Services, Government, Professional Services
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