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§ 07 — Experience

Twelve years.
Six titles.
One through-line.

I started in 2012 at the World Bank. I'm here in 2026 designing distributed systems at iA Financial Group and founding Ghasi Technologies. The stack changed. The titles changed. The work underneath didn't — it's always been the same question: how do you decompose this domain so the next person who touches it has a chance of understanding it.

  1. 2024

    Software Solution Architect

    iA Financial Group · Toronto / Remote

    Author architectural blueprints ready for development hand-off. Present and review at the Architecture Review Board and the Architecture Review Sync. Run POVs and POCs as experimental phases prior to commitment. Lead vendor evaluations and assess technical feasibility for adoption across the business unit. Partner closely with delivery teams to ensure built systems remain aligned to the blueprint. Provide technical guidance on buy-vs-build, reusability, and alignment with company-wide patterns.

    Domain
    FinTech / Insurance
    Stack
    .NET · TypeScript · Cloud (Azure-led)
  2. 2022

    Tech Lead / Senior Software Solution Designer

    iA Financial Group · Toronto

    Translated architectural blueprints into solution design and technical execution plans. Designed event-driven distributed systems for a major insurance line of business. Modernized legacy stacks — .NET framework upgrades, React version upgrades, modular service decomposition. Built POCs and POVs ahead of commitment, including a Cinchy data fabric POV/POC for the line of business. Led and mentored a team of seven; ran code review and PR governance. Participated in vendor evaluations.

    Domain
    FinTech / Insurance
    Stack
    .NET · React · Cinchy data fabric · event-driven
  3. 2021

    Senior Software Developer

    iA Financial Group · Oakville

    Needs detail — 3–5 bullets on what you owned in this period, who you mentored, and which systems you contributed to.

  4. 2019

    Senior Software Engineer

    Invisor Financial Inc. · Oakville

    Owned the front-end stack of the RoboAdvisory platform. Built features on WordPress, including proprietary plugins; shipped interfaces with React/Redux, Material UI, and JSS. Reviewed PRs from other developers and mentored juniors. Contributed to MSSQL and MySQL schema enhancements and ERDs. Contributed to DevOps strategy and implementation (GitLab CI/CD, AWS). Owned the AWS Cognito identity migration: built a Lambda just-in-time provisioning flow to move identities from on-prem databases to Cognito.

    Domain
    FinTech / RoboAdvisory
    Stack
    React · Redux · MUI · WordPress · MSSQL · MySQL · AWS
  5. 2017

    Bridging Program — .NET

    Humber College · Toronto

  6. 2013

    Senior Application Development Specialist

    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) · Kabul

    Needs detail — 3–5 bullets on the programs you worked on, the systems you built, and the public-sector context. Three years at GIZ deserves more than placeholder bullets.

  7. 2012

    Software Developer

    The World Bank · Kabul

    Needs detail — even a year at the World Bank carries weight. 2–3 bullets on the kind of work, the systems context, and what you took into the next role.

  8. 2008

    Bachelor of Science · Computer Science

    Savitribai Phule Pune University · Pune

Cloud experience

Hands-on across all three major clouds. Architecture, infrastructure, and services — not slideware.

  • AzureArchitecture, AI services, infrastructure
  • AWSCognito, Lambda, infrastructure
  • GCPPub/Sub, infrastructure

Certifications in progress

Pursuing the formal stamps to match the practice.

  • AZ-305Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • AI-102Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution
  • SAA-C03AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate

Languages

  • EnglishFull professional
  • پښتوNative
  • فارسیNative

Top skills

Software Architecture · Cloud Solution Architecture · AI Engineering · Custom & Full-stack Development · Relational and Non-relational Databases · IAM · Agile Scrum · SAFe · ITIL

Open to senior, staff, and principal architecture roles.