Professional Experience

My journey through various roles in technology, from IT administration to AI research. If you want a PDF copy of my resume, you can get it here.

Research Assistant - Generative AI in IT Services

University of Guelph Mar 2025 - Present

Conducting research on the application of generative AI technologies in IT service management and operations. Exploring machine learning models for automated incident resolution and service optimization.

Generative AIMachine LearningPythonResearch Methods

Network Infrastructure Student Technician

University of Guelph May 2024 - Aug 2024

Performed campus-wide Wi-Fi surveys to improve internet coverage in dense student environments. Collaborated with team members for efficient network repairs and troubleshooting. Gained hands-on experience in Cisco environment and assisted in migrating databases into NetBox for unified network source of truth.

CiscoNetBoxWi-Fi SystemsNetwork TroubleshootingDatabase Migration

Information Technology Administrator

Zamand International Shipping and Transport Co. Sep 2019 - Nov 2021

Managed IT infrastructure and systems for international shipping operations. Administered network systems, maintained databases, and provided technical support for logistics operations across multiple locations.

System AdministrationNetwork ManagementDatabase AdministrationIT Support

I have also worked in the capacity of construction worker.

Side Projects & Experiments

Personal projects and explorations in various technologies and domains.

wispr

June 2025

Production-grade voice-to-text system for macOS using Fn key as global trigger. Features native Cocoa integration, real-time AssemblyAI streaming, background service architecture, and robust error handling. Built as Wispr Flow alternative.

PythonmacOS CocoaAssemblyAIWebSocketPyAudiolaunchd

Novel AI architecture enabling LLMs to make irreversible internal commitments and maintain consistent identity. Implements variational latent commitment vectors, QLoRA training, and mathematical framework for AI consciousness research.

PyTorchQLoRALlama-2CUDAVariational InferenceRLHF

Experimental framework for improving AI systems by tracking attention patterns. Built logging SDK, RAG integration, and evaluation tools showing attention-weighted re-ranking can improve Precision@5 from ~0.75 to ~0.87.

PythonLangChainOpenAIFAISSFastAPIReactRAG

The Box

April 2025

RFID-enhanced physical item tracker combining Arduino hardware with PWA frontend and backend API. Features Wi-Fi provisioning, real-time tag scanning, item presence tracking, and web-based item management interface.

ArduinoRFIDPWABackend APIWi-FiIoT

Open source contribution to Apple-native tools for Model Context Protocol. Implemented comprehensive email functionality including multi-recipient support, attachments, scheduling, and search capabilities. Project has 2k+ GitHub stars.

TypeScriptAppleScriptMCPEmail APIsOpen Source

Arboro

November 2024

Community event series (previously Crescentia) inspired by Socratica, hosting weekly work sessions where creatives, enthusiasts, and professionals gather for collaborative productivity and networking.

Community BuildingEvent ManagementLeadershipNetworking

mnist-from-scratch

March 2024

Educational neural network implementation from scratch in Python for MNIST handwritten digit classification. Built without high-level ML frameworks to demonstrate fundamentals of neural architecture, training, and evaluation.

PythonNumPyMatplotlibNeural Networks

typing-game

March 2024

React web app to test typing speed with real-time accuracy tracking, visual feedback for keystrokes, and random sentence generation from dictionary.

ReactJavaScriptCSSHTML

cinefile

October 2020

Movie archive assistant built with Python and Qt frontend. Uses IMDb API to automatically organize movie folders and manage your personal film collection with metadata.

PythonQtIMDb APIRaspberry Pi

Everything Else

Additional interests, activities, and miscellaneous projects worth mentioning.

March 2025

Volunteered at the Socratica Symposium 2025 in Waterloo, helping coordinate and manage an international maker collective event that brought together over 2,500 students from multiple disciplines to build, innovate, and collaborate on projects spanning art, engineering, business, and design.

2019

Ranked 394th in Iran's national university entrance exam (Konkur) in mathematics and physics, earning admission to K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU).