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About me and what I do

Who I am
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Pattern Detector
In math, programming, art or anywhere else.
Developer
Two decades, so far. Originally Flash, then Javascript, Ruby, Kotlin, Elixir, ....
Artist
With a portfolio of both artwork and software tools for animation and visual effects.

Career Path

3D Artist
Programmer
2001-2016
2005-2026
The value I can bring to the company
Holistic view

The holistic view that I bring from my architecture background can contribute to the big picture of the job. Literally, it helps to improve the architecture and boost maintainability.

Problem solving

Curiosity and creativity, usually lead me to exceptional solutions for complicated problems.

Craftsmanship

I am a tool creator, by nature. Historic records show that my contributions in this regard have improved the team’s performance. Check the Recnt Industry Experience section for some examples.

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Recent industry experience

Saas!

Since 2019, I have been involved in three SaaS projects implemented in Ruby on Rails, Ember, CircleCI, Scrum, .... More details below:

2024 Jun — 2026 May

Stage 2, a small startup in Gent, Belgium with a large number of users around the world.

No-code Development Platforms
Ember
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
GitLab
Bootstrap
2020 Feb — 2024 Jun

Unit4, a large company with 4000 staff all around the world.

Human Capital Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Ember
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
CircleCI
Azure DevOps
Sentry.io
SonarQube
Tailwindcss

I have taken the initiative to organize, manage, invite guests, and deliver lectures as part of a series of weekly TechTalks aimed at sharing technical knowledge among the team, where I served as the weekly Ember lecturer. The lectures were recorded and archived for team’s future reference.

I have created several tools to assist the team’s daily work.

Code Refactoring Tools
Being assigned the task of updating an old codebase to some recent version of Ember I found out that existing tools were not much helpful due to some anti-patterns in the code base. So, I created my own tools to save time.
Two vscode extensions
To facilitate sophisticated refactorings not possible with Replace All feature of vscode. Check them out in VSCode’s extension market.The icon for a visual studio extension created by Mehran Naghizadeh
A bunch of Ruby scripts
To facilitate sophisticated refactorings not possible with Replace All feature of vscode.
GIT convenience scripts
We do a lot of rebasings on a daily basis which most often end up with confusing conflicts.To overcome the challenge, I have creaed a bunch of Ruby and Bash scripts to make it more convenient and reliable. Check them out in this GitHub repository.GitHub logo
2018 Nov — 2019 Nov

Redpencil, a small startup in Brussels with great ideas and talented founders!

Open Data
Semantic Web
Microservices
Graph databases
Ember
Node
Tailwindcss
Docker
Sparql
Elixir
2002 Mar — 2019 Nov

ASA and Pendareh, two small sized animation studios where I worked as a technical artist. Also, pero-project collaborations with some architecture studios.

Animations, TV Commercials, Visual Effects
Flash Desktop Apps
Architectural Previsualization
Tools to facilitate 3D work
Python, MEL
Tools to facilitate visual effects work
Python

I have initiatively trained the team of engineers while working in an architecture studio. they learned an alternative tool that changed their day to day job, entirely.