Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · On-site

• Founder & CEO of Persian Biz, a business directory in Australia aimed at becoming the most complete platform for Persian-owned and Farsi-speaking businesses. Powered by AI, we automate business discovery, descriptions, Farsi translations, and data validation. We are expanding with AI and Telegram chatbots to answer community questions, job listings, and dedicated sections for Persian health practitioners — building a central hub for Persian businesses and services.

Sep 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Remote

• Fireblocks is the world's leading wallet service provider allowing institutional clients to take control of their own digital asset custody using the state of the art MPC (Multi Party Computation) technology. It also provides the means for the institutions to give the full custody of the crypto assets to their end-users.
• Fireblocks acquired Blockfold in a move to extend its service in Real World Asset (RWA) Tokenisation by developing a Tokenisation Engine.
• My main responsibility is to thoroughly audit the smart contracts developed as part of the product or the ones specifically created for a client to make sure they have a high degree of quality and are not vulnerable to the known issues in blockchain security space.
• Here are some of my achievements so far:
• Developed an Internal Audit Framework tailored for smart contract solutions.
• Continuously updated the Audit Framework in response to new DeFi hacks and vulnerabilities.
• Conducted audits on Stablecoin and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) projects.
• Audited Real World Asset (RWA) Tokenization projects.
• Reviewed Cross-Chain Bridging solutions for compliance and security.
• Worked collaboratively to address and resolve audit findings, ensuring robust code integrity.
• Engaged in the Solution Architecture for projects from inception.
• Created templates leveraging Foundry for effective testing and enhanced security through Fuzzing.
• Investigated advanced Formal Verification techniques and tools to strengthen project security.
• Explored Zero-Knowledge Proof technologies and their applications.
• Researched emerging cryptographic techniques for privacy-preserving applications.
• Studied the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in blockchain security.
• Fostered a culture of knowledge sharing within the team.

Jun 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Remote

• I joined as Blockchain Developer, but soon became internal Smart Contract Auditor. Most part of my day to day job was to read and review the codes and also Research on Blockchain Security and best practices. Also I need to follow the most recent blockchain security incidents and hacks to learn from them and apply into my audits.
• Some of the notable projects I worked on are as follows. The quality of final work which was the outcome of professional and highly capable blockchain developers in the team and back and forth interaction between me and the team resulted in a code that was praised by the top blockchain audit firms and made their life hard :
• Carbon Credit Marketplace for a large Australian Financial Organisations
• Series of smart contracts for tokenisation of carbon credits and and an on-chain marketplace that enabled the participants to trade the tokenised carbon credits.
• Tokenisation of Real World Assets for DigitalX:
• This project enabled tokenisation of real estate which aimed to provide an affordable way to get exposure on real estate even with small amount of investment.
• CBDC and Blockchain Bridge for Bank of International Settlements (BIS):
• Project Mariana, was an attempt by BIS and three Central Banks to pilot the issuance of CBDC on private blockchains and bridge into public blockchain with a DEX to facilitate the conversion of different CBDCs.
• Some other restricted projects:
• I was involved in some other projects by large financial organisation that are not publicised yet.
• What the projects had in common, was the fact that the code quality was very well received by the external audit firms and made their life harder.
• Due to Blockfold's success in delivering so many high quality and prestigious projects, it was a target for acquisition by top institutional wallet service provider, Fireblocks.

Jul 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Xapital is a Crypto Fund focusing on providing a mechanism for wholesale investors to invest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. My role started with research on trading strategies and building a Data Warehouse with trading data and backtesting trading algorithms based on the historical data.
• Xapital then moved on to an exciting new space called Web3. The focus was building a decentralised non-custodial Social Trading platform on Ethereum Blockchain with a view of moving to multi-chain in the future. Developing Smart Contracts have its own challenges mainly in Security and Gas Efficiency. There were also lots of Economical decision making involved in the process to have enough incentives for the Traders and users to start using the platform, so my role was not just technical and involved lots of research in DeFi (Decentralised Finance) space. I was also contributing to the architecture of other initiatives in blockchain space.

Feb 2020 – Jun 2020 · 4 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Worked for a government client as Senior ETL developer, on building a solution for distribution of data from central Data Warehouse to multiple different parties. Apart from development, my role was also included influencing on adopting proper process for database and ETL solutions.

Jun 2019 – Dec 2019 · 6 mos · Sydney, Australia

• TAL is the one of the largest Life Insurance companies in Australia. I joined TAL as Senior BI Developer and have been involved in Analysing data and implementing ETL process for Claims data. The team is focused on Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery and any development of ETL process follows with implementation of automated unit tests.

Nov 2017 – Jul 2018 · 8 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Developing and Maintaining Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft based technologies. The technologies used are:
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Data Modelling and Data Warehouse design
• Data Vault Methodology
• SQL Server Reporting Services
• Microsoft Power BI
• Attunity Replicate
• Azure SQL - Managed Instance
• Database Performance Improvements

Apr 2017 – Nov 2017 · 7 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Smart Clinics is a growing network of modern day family medical centres delivering best practice services to the patients and providing convenience using latest web and cloud technologies. I joined as Senior BI Developer in green field Data Analytics project. The aim is to build an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) sourcing data from 3 different systems and over 20 clinics. Data Vault modelling is being used for this project, and visualisation part is done in Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS).

Jun 2016 – Jun 2016 · 0 mo · Sydney, Australia

• I worked on a the first phase of Broker Performance Reporting project which includes:
• Requirement Analysis
• Data Modelling
• Quick ETL to get the data into Data Model using SSIS
• Power BI Dashboard

Mar 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Sydney, Australia

• I was engaged in Automotive Industry Benchmarking system as a Senior BI consultant from Agile BI. The aim was to support and make enhancements. The system was built using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). My main achievements were:
• Making the system more stable and dependable
• Dramatic increase on report performance (over 10x)
• Increased data quality by finding issues in data and solutions to prevent it from happening again
• Increased supportability by providing detailed info for admin on reports
• Designed a Power BI dashboard for insights on Report usages
• Provided quick tactical solutions and long term solutions that suits client needs

Jan 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Agile BI Pty Ltd is a boutique consulting firm and Microsoft Gold Partner that specialises in Agile and Business Intelligence consulting. I worked on different projects from a government organisation, a large insurance company and a multi-national consultancy firm, and the work involved:
• Analysing business needs
• Dimensional Data Modelling
• Implementing ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) using SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)
• Implementing and supporting SQL Server Analysis Services cubes, using MDX language
• Implementing and supporting SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports
• Implementing Dashboard reports using Power BI

Jan 2016 – Feb 2016 · 1 mo · Sydney, Australia

• I worked on a small end to end BI project as a BI consultant from Agile BI Pty Ltd for Environment Protection Authority (EPA). The project included:
• Analysing the requirements
• Creating a Data Warehouse with Dimensional Modelling
• Creating ETL solution using SSIS
• Visualising the data loaded into DW using Power BI

Jun 2015 – Dec 2015 · 6 mos · Sydney, Australia

• IRi Australia is a leading Marketing research company (based on data) in Australia. It provides insights on shopping behaviour for FMCG product brands.
• I worked in IRi as Senior Database developer, and my role was involved designing and implementation of reports back-end (stored procedures) and maintaining ETL SSIS Packages.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Sydney, Australia

• State Super Financial Services is a leading provider of professional financial planning advice to current and former public sector employees and their families. The company is now going through a big technological and operational reform, implementing new systems which needs to be integrated with the existing systems.
• My role was to design the process and develop SSIS packages for near real-time integration of the new CRM system to existing operational data store. I also joined data-migration team and was mainly writing data-migration scripts, ensuring the data mappings between legacy and new systems are correct, finding data anomalies and ensuring data quality, and some performance tunings.

Feb 2014 – Jul 2014 · 5 mos

• I worked with Agile BI as as a Senior Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Consultant. My main responsibilities were to design Data Warehouse using multi dimensional model, design and implement ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) process using SSIS, and some performance improvements in the existing databases for a Financial Services client.I was also involved in designing Multi-Dimensional Cubes and writing MDX Queries which were used in SSRS Reports.

Aug 2008 – Jan 2014 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Sydney, Australia

• I worked as Data Warehouse Developer mainly focused on ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Process optimisation. We used Microsoft SQL Server and Integration Services (SSIS). I was also responsible for developing and maintaining applications for monitoring and managing ETL jobs using Microsoft .Net Technology.
• I also studied Master of Applied Finance while I was working at Challenger, and that helped me a lot in understanding the business context and communicate with business users.

Apr 2004 – May 2008 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Parsian Insurance is the largest private insurance company in Iran. I joined Parsian Insurance as Senior.Net Developer and later on I was appointed as Data Analysis team leader as it was also my passion. I was in this role for about a year before I migrate to Australia.
• Projects:
• BSS (Backup & Synchronization System) Tech:.Net 2.0, SQL Server 2000, Ftp, XML
• Glance Project, A system for running scripts and updates and different types of commands facilitating technical support of existing Insurance systems. Tech:.Net 2.0, SQL Server 2000, XML
• Data Consolidation Project:
• The data collected from over 150 branches/agencies would arrive and get restored into separate databases. I developed and maintained some SQL stored procedures to consolidate all data into a single database, which were being used on daily basis.
• Data Analysis Project:
• In addition to the weekly and monthly aggregated reports that would be prepared by our data analysis, we did also prepare a thorough data analysis report on the policies and claims and tried to answer as much questions as possible that were likely to be asked by CEO and senior management. We prepared this report once a year and they were very well received by the management.

May 1999 – Mar 2004 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Auto Insurance - Underwriting project with Delphi & Oracle 7
• Auto Insurance - loss & Claims project with Delphi & Oracle 7
• Accounting Extension for Insurance Systems- Delphi/ SQL Server
• HyperNet Project. It was an Application framework based on .Net : N-Tier Architecture Framework, libraries, Code Generators, Wizards, Workflow engine, etc. Windows & Web Forms (ASP.Net)