Mahdi Safarnejad Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London Area, United Kingdom

• Direct the data platform and data analytics teams (15+ people)
• Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to define the data strategy, vision, androadmap for the company.

• Manage a team of 8 data engineers to build a high-end data platform.
• Use cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes, ArgoCD, HashiCorp Vault, ClickHouse, DataHub, Airflow, Feast, etc. to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure data solutions.
• Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to define the data strategy, vision, and roadmap for the company.
• Mentor and coach the data engineers on best practices, code quality, testing, and performance optimization.
• Hire, onboard, and retain top talent for the data engineering team.

• Lead a team of developers and data scientists to build production-ready AI softwareproducts for the largest brokerage firm in Iran.
• Lead building the ChatGPT based chatbot for Mofid, which provides natural and engaging conversations with customers and answers their queries about financial products and services.
• Taught testing best practices for several teams and helped design test plans and improve the stability of products.
• Refined the interview process and helped design the growth ladder and 360-degree review for the tech department.

Tehran, Iran

• Identify, assess, and manage the risks related to software development and data centers for the online banking subsidiary company of Parsian Bank that handles over one million POS terminals.

Tehran, Iran

• Teach data engineering, data structures and algorithms, advanced programming, and foundation of programming to 600+ students at the top-ranked university in Iran.
• Manage 150+ teaching assistants throughout these years and empower them for their scientific and professional future.
• Have several years of teaching experience in competitive programming for Iran’s national IOI team and other talented students in selected high schools.

• Lead a team of backend developers, frontend developers, and data scientists to designand implement machine learning and big data software solutions.
• Work on projects such as a big data system that handles 600+ servers and 6 million log events per second, and a machine learning-based dynamic pricing product.
• Drive the product development with quality and speed, help design the product roadmap, grow the team size, and empower them to form a spin-off team.
• During this time, I have read several technical books such as The Pragmatic Programmer (20th Anniversary Edition), Software Engineering at Google, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and Fundamentals.

Tehran, Iran

• Help promote the bank in IT-related fields such as launching its first mobile banking app, launching USSD banking, upgrading its mainframes, setting up instant-issue debit cards, cleansing old account data, and.
• Investigate a few suspicious transactions with a huge amount of money that occurred due to network errors.

Tehran, Iran

• Design and develop smart card solutions for national insurance companies (Social Security Organization and Medical Services Insurance Organization [now Health Insurance Organization]) and universities (Tehran.
• Design high-quality interactive educational software both for desktop and mobile using the best technologies of its time including Unity 3D, Unreal Engine, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash, C#, and WPF.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Engineering

Algorithms, Edit Distance

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Engineering

Game Theory

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

Also Studied Pure Mathematics as the Second Major