Flow Traders

Build Engineer — Developer Platform May 2022 – Present | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Internal developer platform engineering at a high-frequency trading firm:

  • Designed and maintained internal developer platform tooling supporting 10,000+ CI/CD pipelines across JVM, Python, Go, Rust, and C++ projects
  • Built an AI-powered engineering assistant integrating Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo to accelerate developer workflows
  • Implemented a Kubernetes controller in Go for dynamic CI agent scaling, reducing idle compute cost while maintaining pipeline throughput under burst load

Kian Digital

DevOps Technical Lead / Head of DevOps March 2020 – April 2022

Technical leadership for a large-scale microservices organization:

  • Led DevOps strategy and execution for ~200 microservices across multiple product lines
  • Drove migration of CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitLab CI, improving pipeline reliability and developer experience
  • Architected and operated a CDN platform handling 50 Gbps with approximately 300,000 concurrent viewers during peak streaming events

Sadad Informatics

Cloud Developer / DevOps Engineer March 2019 – August 2020

  • Designed and operated OpenStack private cloud infrastructure for a financial technology organization
  • Implemented infrastructure-as-code and automated provisioning workflows for cloud-native application deployments
  • Contributed upstream fixes to OpenStack components

Amnafzar Co.

Senior Software Developer August 2015 – March 2019

Distributed systems engineering for a security intelligence platform:

  • Designed and built a SIEM platform ingesting ~100,000 security events per second with zero data loss guarantees
  • Architected the distributed data pipeline using Apache Kafka (buffering), Elasticsearch (sharded storage), and Apache Spark (distributed processing)
  • Optimized ingestion, hashing, and indexing performance through horizontal scaling, bulk indexing strategies, and system-level tuning to eliminate CPU and I/O bottlenecks
  • Responsible for performance tuning, fault tolerance design, and operational SLA compliance

Samayesh

Full Stack Developer August 2012 – August 2015

  • Developed datacenter monitoring and management systems using Python, PHP, ExtJS, and jQuery
  • Built real-time dashboards and alerting systems for datacenter operations teams