Behrad Zari

 Software Architect and Entrepreneur

ABOUT

Both a software architect and a T-shaped entrepreneur at the same time powered by a systemic product-driven mindset with two decades of experience in building scalable and maintainable software with various tech stacks mostly NodeJS and Java.
I train juniors to senior full-stack developers powering them up as proactive team players.
After telecom and realtime messaging I've been focusing on Marketing Technology, Customer Data Platforms, Customer Experience Automation, developing low-code Data/Orchestration/Automation tools, in recent 5 years.

EDUCATION

Masters in Software Engineering
Sharif University of Technology
MSc. Thesis: Towards an Agile Core Methodology for Software Development

JUNE 2008

Bachelor in Software Engineering
Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
BSc. Project: Implementation of the Iranian Health Portal based on SOA

JUNE 2005



EXPERIENCE

Mentor and Software Consultant
Various Startups & Tech Companies

  • Help startups and large companies to build and scale up their tech stack and software product/service, power up development teams with agile practices, empowered communication and technical skills mostly in NodeJS/React/Vue stack

DEC. 2020 - Now

Founder and CEO
Chabok Realtime Solutions

  • Launched a SaaS platform with comparable features and quality against world's top marketing automation software while minimizing development costs playing both as a CPO and CTO
  • Implement a scalable event-driven software architecture based on NodeJS, React/Angular, Microservices (RabbitMQ) and NoSQL dbs like Couchhbase, InfluxDB, Clickhouse, MongoDB serving more than 100 million events/day
  • Successfully served famous Iranian B2C tech companies to happily integrate and optimize their digital growths
  • Achieved positive cash flow and profitability in the second year of running Chabok
  • Re-design ADP's SMS gateway for scalability to handle more than 5K sms/sec

AUG. 2017 - DEC. 2020

Product Architect
Atieh Dadeh Pardaz

  • Managed to design & implement a second screen mobile app for most famous TV show of Iran (90 Program) which scaled to 3.5 million MAU and handled more than one million predictions in an hour at live show based on NodeJS, native Android/iOS, React
  • Re-design ADP's SMS gateway for scalability to handle more than 5K sms/sec on top of Scala, Akka, Couchbase, Postgres

JUNE 2014 - JULY 2017

Agile/Technical Mentor
AVVAL MARKET

  • Avval Market team was migrating from a monolithic node.js app to a microservices based one :)

SEP 2015 - MAR 2016

Senior Development Engineer
Aban Parallel Processing

  • Innovating with open technologies to serve internet based customers based on Groovy, NodeJS, AngularJS, CouchDB technologies to implement a realtime user video interaction tracker.

AUG 2014 - MAR 2015

Product Manager and Tech Lead
AC&C Basamad Co.

  • Implement and deploy Bank Sepah realtime ATM failure detection system. It's easy-to-use workflow engine helped Bank agents to decrease average failure-to-fix time of ATM machines to less than 15 minutes

JUNE 2012 - JULY 2014

Software Engineer and Lead Developer
AC&C Basamad Co.

  • Developed and battle tested a very scalable VoIP (SIP-based) Call Manager which deployed in multiple important Iran call centers like 9990 (MCI), 9627 (National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution), 162 (IRIB) and others It was the most complicated software system I designed and implemented with delightful flexibility for contact center agents
  • Setup an advanced Contact Center Analytics & KPI reporting BI tool with SpagoBI integration

JUNE 2005 - JULY 2012

Software Developer
Javaneh Narmafzar (ObjectJ Co.)

  • Member of development team of Emdad Khodro Iran enterprise software with on-site test and feedback responsibility
  • Member of development team of National Health (Takfab) Portal based on Service Oriented Architecture

JUNE 2003 - JULY 2005


SKILLS

Team Development and Coaching


Leadership and Integrity


Micromanagement


Mobile Growth


SaaS


Time Management


Customer Development


Marketing and Negotiation


Forward-Thinking



ACTIVITIES

Talks & Conferences

  • Big Data, Tech Cafe with Arash Barahmand, 2015
  • Increasing Mobile Engagement, Rahbaran Roshd, 2017
  • Mobile Marketing Roadmap, Elecomp 2018
  • Acquisition VS Retention, Rahbaran Bazaar, 2018

Marketing Workshops

  • Teach Mobile Marketing - Digital Marketing Hands On Course, Sharif SEERIO.ir
  • Teach Marketing Automation - Dehban Digital Marketing Course
  • Mobile Marketing Technology - Karaj Startup Home

Teaching & Mentorship

  • Train tech team to adapt Java EE stack - Bamasad Co. 2007
  • Teach Java Enterprise Course - Azad University 2005
  • Teach Java Core Development - mft.info 2013
  • Teach Backend Engineering with Nodejs - mft.info 2019



CONTACT

Email
behradz@gmail.com

Phone
+98 912 533 6383

Address
Tehran/Iran

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