Selected work

A career spent
making things work.

A career spanning founder-led products, enterprise platforms, and technical leadership, always focused on making ambitious systems more understandable and dependable.

Enterprise architecture01

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Independent Technical Director · 2023-Present

Connact: architecture for consequential event and enterprise platforms

Provide technical direction, architecture design, and hands-on engineering for government-level events, enterprise platforms, and digital services in the UAE, including the World Governments Summit and the World Sports Summit.

The challenge

Event platforms carry a fixed date, a global audience, and many content owners. The World Governments Summit needed to leave a tightly coupled CMS setup behind without putting a live edition at risk.

The response

Moved WGS 2024, 2025, and 2026 to Sitefinity headless with a Next.js front end, integrated Salesforce APIs, THEOplayer streaming, and multi-site content workflows, and built the World Sports Summit 2025 platform on Strapi, Next.js, and AWS.

WGS 2024, 2025, 2026World Sports Summit 2025Sitefinity headless + Next.jsRail Logic WHMS redesign
Applied AI research02

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Personal R&D · 2025-Present

Toranj: a carpet design platform where the agent does the least

Tools for Persian carpet designers: view a design from the whole carpet down to a single knot, recolor and correct it, adapt it to another size or loom density, and plan its production.

Visit toranj.connact.me

The challenge

Adapting a design to a smaller carpet looks like an AI problem. Measured on real designs drawn at every size, most of it is not: size, density, borders, and symmetry follow rules. Only redrawing motifs at a smaller knot budget defeated every sampling method.

The response

A deterministic Rust engine handles everything measurable, a local model redraws only the motifs, and an agent works on top through an MCP server and a versioned API. A custom WebGL2 renderer, a Next.js studio, and 29 written architecture decisions hold it together.

Rust engine + WebGL2 rendererMCP server for ClaudeOpenAPI 3.1 service29 architecture decisions
Consumer product03

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Independent product · 2026

Bonadia: daily chair workouts for people over 60

Short daily chair workouts for people over 60, in 15 languages, with a coach who speaks the user’s language. The movements change every day and always cover the whole body.

Visit bonadia.app

The challenge

The audience is people over 60 in many countries. That meant 15 languages, three kinds of screen, and no account to create, with anything a user enters staying on their device.

The response

One Expo and React Native codebase targets Android phones, Android TV, and the web, served from Cloudflare Workers and R2. A content studio compiles video, coach voice generated with ElevenLabs, and music into offline packages, and a shared, unit-tested session clock plays them back.

15 languagesOne Expo / React Native codebaseCloudflare Workers + R2No account, data stays on device
Platform transformation04

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Founder & CTO · 2016-2023

Profile: building a social platform ready for scale

Led product vision, architecture, and two engineering squads through the evolution of a professional social platform: from a legacy monolith to a distributed, service-oriented system serving 25,000 members.

The challenge

The original AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC platform had reached the limits of the product’s next growth stage. The system needed stronger performance, clearer service boundaries, and a development model multiple squads could evolve safely.

The response

Directed a complete product and technical redesign around a React PWA, Go services, GraphQL gateway, Kafka event backbone, and multiple purpose-fit databases, including a Neo4j graph that recommended people and content.

25-person team at peak24 stateless services75% faster server responseSix national awards
Regional product delivery05

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Solution Architect & Team Lead · 2009-2016

Website development and support across MENA

Led the development of 50+ websites, mobile applications, and management systems for organizations across the region through a long-running technical partnership with Omnia.

The challenge

Each engagement combined a different brand, operating model, audience, and technical environment, requiring dependable delivery without forcing every product into the same solution.

The response

Built and led an agile development capability that translated creative and business requirements into dependable technical systems, including the Saudi Premier League platform for more than 250,000 users.

du & EmaarADNEC & MubadalaQDBAbdul Latif JameelWaha Capital

Also delivered

Systems & operationsRail Logic

Dashboards for large-scale operational systems

Designed and built monitoring and management dashboards for large-scale operational systems, including rail network operations at Rail Logic.

Global & regional brandsPrototype Interactive

Websites and platforms for major global brands

Delivered websites and digital platforms for Microsoft, Mastercard, and The Entertainer as part of the engineering team at Prototype Interactive.

Global events

Websites and support for major regional events

Built and supported public-facing websites for large-scale gatherings, including editions of the World Sports Summit and World Governments Summit.

Experience

Built over decades, still learning every day.

2023-Now

Connact Digital Solutions

Independent Technical Director

Dubai, UAE

2016-2023

Profile

Founder & CTO

Mashhad, Iran

2009-2016

Omnia

Solution Architect / Team Lead, with Prototype Interactive 2011-2013

Dubai, UAE

2007-2009

Rail Logic

Software Developer

US · Remote

2005-2007

Roya Pardaz Pars

Software Developer / Co-founder

Mashhad, Iran

2002-2005

Dadepardazan Hashtom

Web Developer

Mashhad, Iran

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