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    <h1>Work</h1>
    <p>Eight years across AI platform engineering and distributed backend systems, from regional service to national-scale infrastructure. Currently a PhD researcher at a joint European doctorate program.</p>
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        <span class="job__co">JD-ICE Doctorate</span>
        <span class="job__when">Nov 2025 &ndash; Present</span>
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      <div class="job__ctx">Joint Doctorate in Interactive &amp; Cognitive Environments &mdash; UniGe (IT) &middot; UC3M (ES) &middot; QMUL (UK)</div>
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          <span class="span">Nov 2025 &ndash; Present</span>
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        <p class="role-note">Research on Vision-Language Models, Vision Transformers, and Large Language Models &mdash; with a focus on hardware-aware inference, precision trade-offs, and real-time edge deployment for resource-constrained environments.</p>
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        <span class="chip">VLM</span>
        <span class="chip">ViT</span>
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        <span class="chip">FP16 / INT8</span>
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        <span class="job__when">Jun 2017 &ndash; Aug 2025</span>
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      <div class="job__ctx">Iran&rsquo;s largest ride-hailing platform &mdash; 50M+ users, ~4M rides/day at peak</div>
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          <span class="title">Technical Lead &mdash; Backend &amp; AI Platform</span>
          <span class="span">Jun 2023 &ndash; Aug 2025</span>
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          <span class="title">Senior AI / ML Software Engineer</span>
          <span class="span">Jun 2020 &ndash; Jun 2023</span>
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          <span class="title">Senior Software Engineer &mdash; Backend</span>
          <span class="span">Jun 2017 &ndash; Jun 2020</span>
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        <span class="chip">Go</span>
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        <span class="chip">Redis</span>
        <span class="chip">Airflow</span>
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        <span class="chip">Prometheus</span>
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        <span class="job__when">Sep 2016 &ndash; Jun 2017</span>
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          <span class="title">Senior Software Engineer &mdash; Backend</span>
          <span class="span">Sep 2016 &ndash; Jun 2017</span>
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