Born in Tehran, Iran, I have lived, worked and/or studied in Iran, Japan, Germany, India, United States and Spain (in over 12 cities) since 2004. Professionally, I have been mostly active in fields of computer science, software development, architecture design, process optimization, knowledge management and complex IT transformation projects.
Academic life: In 2004 and in the last stage of my bachelor’s studies at Sharif University of Technology, I had a chance to participate in the Young Scientist Exchange Program (YSEP), a one-year research program at Tokyo Institute of Technology. After returning from Japan in September 2005, and a six-month position as technical coordinator at AICTC, I started my master’s at the technical university of Munich (TUM). Parallel to master’s studies, I was admitted to join the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), where I received my second (honorary) master’s degree in the field of technology management. During this period, I was also working at the laboratory of professor Knoll as a part-time researcher and a member of the JAST project. I was responsible for the object and later gesture recognition module. Worth mentioning here are also my internships throughout my master’s studies in Los Angeles (California) at Nova Development, and in Bangalore (India) at Infosys. After completing my master’s, I shifted my focus to designing large-scale information systems, social platforms and knowledge management. This was the initiative to pursue my PhD studies, which was successfully finished after having defended my thesis in April 2015 (see publications).
Professional background: The first real job I had outside of Iran was as a research associate at fortiss until 2012. After that I worked at Interhyp as project manager for nine months, before I returned to Iran upon receiving an invitation from Dr. Mohammad Khansari to work as his adviser in his capacity as the new president of the Research Institute for ICT. For over eight months I was entrusted as an interim CIO with leading large and interdisciplinary projects to redesign internal processes and knowledge management, particularly in the field of project management.
After returning to Germany. I worked at Varengold Bank in Hamburg as Senior IT project manager for a year and a half and then headed back to Munich (Dahoam) in 2016 to start a new career with DETECON as technology and management consultant. There I founded and lead Atlassian Elite Taskforce as a competency center, which was dedicated to research and development with Atlassian Jira & Confluence, in order to use them as a modern platform to support end2end process and knowledge management in any company and project.
In 2020 I quit Detecon and started with codecentric to focus more on Atlassian products and consulting. During the transition I documented my IP (intellectual property) on how to configure Atlassian workflow engine and selected Apps to enable parallel processing and creating an ERP with Atlassian Jira and JSM.
After joining Codecentric, I took on several complex projects, including the challenging task of migrating and upgrading an Atlassian server that had been poorly maintained for over 10 years to a Data Center. I successfully led a team of five Atlassian consultants to complete the migration.
In early 2022, I embarked on a new chapter as co-founder and CTO of a Legal Tech startup. Shortly before the end of my vesting contract, after making the company cash-positive ahead of schedule through my IP and technological innovations, and setting up an IT infrastructure that automated over 90% of the business’s complex processes, things took a turn.
The startup experience has been a difficult but valuable lesson—one that taught me to be cautious about trusting people I don’t know well.
