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Pouya MozaffarMagham

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At BrowseAI, we are pioneering the simplification of website scraping through user-friendly and advanced technology. As a Senior Product Engineer, Full-Stack, I've been instrumental in:

🔹 Leading the development of the DOM Mirroring Robot Studio feature, allowing users to interact with and extract data from mirrored websites seamlessly.
🔹 Innovating an AI robot trainer tool that intelligently extracts data from websites based on the description of the desired information.
🔹 Enhancing our hiring process by designing and implementing an interview framework for Product Engineers, conducting interviews with candidates worldwide.

My role at BrowseAI is a blend of technical innovation, team leadership, and strategic hiring, all aimed at making data extraction more accessible and efficient.

🔹 Conducted regular 1:1 sessions with front-end engineers to discuss progress, address concerns, and set clear developmental paths.
🔹 Designed and implemented comprehensive career progression plans tailored to individual team member strengths and aspirations.
🔹 Entrusted team members with key responsibilities, empowering them to take ownership of their projects and contribute meaningfully to the company's success.
🔹 Advocated for team members, successfully negotiating raises and ensuring their hard work and dedication were duly recognized and rewarded.
🔹 Provided constructive feedback, ensuring constant professional growth while also setting clear future goals, aligning both with the company's vision and individual aspirations.

Successfully designed and taught two comprehensive 40-hour Introduction to ReactJS courses for students of Tehran Institute of Technology. As a Senior Front-End Engineer passionate about sharing knowledge, I focused on helping students grow and develop a strong foundation in ReactJS development. The beginner-friendly courses covered essential JavaScript concepts and functional components in React.

Key achievements:

- Developed open-sourced course materials, fostering collaboration and ensuring the content stays accurate and up-to-date with the latest ReactJS and JavaScript developments. (https://github.com/pmzi/introduction-to-react-course)
- Empowered students to build their own web applications by providing them with a solid understanding of ReactJS.
- Contributed to the community by sharing my expertise as a Senior Front-End Engineer, giving back, and helping others succeed in their ReactJS journey.
- Maintained a student satisfaction rate above 90%, as monitored after each session using a custom Google Form poll, designed by myself to gather feedback from students and tailor the course based on their needs and desires.

It has been a rewarding experience to combine my passion for teaching with my professional skills, while also ensuring a high level of satisfaction for my students and adapting the course content to meet their specific needs.

As the Chapter Lead of Front-End Engineering at Divar's Backoffice, I'm at the helm of the engineering team for one of the leading platforms for buying and selling used items in Iran, with 40+ million active users. My role involves not just streamlining operations, but also ensuring our services remain efficient, secure, and user-friendly.

Here are the key achievements:

- Led the Redesign of User Data Archiving Panel: Successfully led the rebuild of our primary user data archiving panel. This panel is critical for aiding operators in managing user reports, preventing fraud, and resolving user issues. The rebuild was executed with a selection of modern technologies such as React, React-Query, TypeScript, S3, and gRPC.

- Streamlined Release and Deployment Process: Set up semantic-release to automate our release process and generate structured release notes. Enforced the use of commitlint and commitizen to ensure standardized MR titles, resulting in a readable commit history of the main branch and release notes. Additionally, I built a system that provided each branch with a dedicated staging area using S3 buckets.

- Enhanced Website Security and Reliability: Established nginx with properly configured CSP headers to protect against security vulnerabilities such as XSS attacks. In case of potential S3 downtime, I introduced nginx caching to guarantee uninterrupted service.

- Introduced User-Friendly Features: Developed an offline page using a SW, which provides an enhanced user experience even when offline. To keep users informed about new updates and features, I created an automatic release announcement system.

- Optimized Bundle Size: Made a significant contribution to buf to improve tree shaking and remove unused items, resulting in an important reduction in our bundle size.

- Leadership and Team Development: Guided and led a team of 5 engineers. Regular one-on-one sessions were part of my strategy to ensure the team's continual growth and progress.

As a part-time Software Engineer at Burna Innovation Center, I've contributed to enhancing our products by implementing security and collaboration features, notably creating a secure, collaborative platform similar to Google Docs with the key difference that users can share docs partially with each other (See attached medias).

Key responsibilities and achievements include:

- Collaborative Platform Development: Led the creation of a robust and secure platform, similar to Google Docs, utilizing S3 for advanced object-level authorization and access management. Leveraged Collabora Online and ReactJS for front-end development, Node.js for back-end development, and OpenStack Swift and Python for creating middleware.

- Middleware Development: I dove deep into OpenStack Swift and Python, designing and developing a custom middleware solution to meet the project's unique requirements. This solution significantly enhanced the robustness and flexibility of our system.

- In-Depth Work with Docx Files: Gained an in-depth understanding and working experience with .docx files. This proved crucial in the development process, allowing for advanced functionalities and user-friendly features.

- Open-Source Contributions: I made contributions to Collabora Online (CODE), enhancing its features and functionalities. This not only demonstrates my commitment to the global development community but also helps enrich the tool for users worldwide.

- Tech Stack Expertise: I frequently utilized a diverse tech stack in this role, including React.js, OpenStack, Python, and Node.js, strengthening Burna Innovation Center's ability to deliver versatile, high-quality solutions.

- Security Emphasis: I consistently prioritize security and data protection, adhering to best practices to safeguard user data and privacy.

I joined Burna Innovation Center in October 2022 and have since embraced the challenges and opportunities that come with innovating and contributing to the tech industry's growth.

During my time at Balad Maps and Navigation from June 2022 to November 2022, I played a pivotal role as a Senior Front-End Engineer. Balad is Iran's most downloaded maps application, boasting over 10 million active monthly users.

My accomplishments at Balad included:
- Interviewing numerous candidates at various stages of the hiring process
- Mentoring junior engineers and providing guidance to support their growth
- Migrating the build tool for our Business Panel Project from Preact-CLI to Vite, reducing the build time from ~70 seconds to ~600ms
- Optimizing First Contentful Paint (FCP) from 2.4 seconds to 1.5 seconds (https://www.lightest.app/c/9f874GHYl-)
- Collaborating with a feature team to complete numerous tasks and develop new features

Unfortunately, Balad faced economic challenges and had to lay off 84% of its workforce, including myself. The startup later decided to shut down operations by the end of the Persian year. Despite these setbacks, my time at Balad was marked by significant growth and contributions to the company.

As a Co-founder and Front-End Engineer at ZenCats, I played a significant role in developing and scaling our blockchain-based collection of 5,000 unique digital cats. Our diverse team, which began with just three members, successfully expanded to 12 talented professionals within nine months, and we secured a 200K CAD investment from a Canadian investor.

My primary responsibilities at ZenCats included:
- Developing our website using Next.js, ensuring a user-friendly and responsive design
- Optimizing web vital metrics for enhanced performance and user experience
- Architecting and implementing a scalable web3 platform on top of React.js for seamless selling and feature additions

During my tenure at ZenCats from October 2021 to June 2022, I was proud to be a part of the team that built a unique and engaging platform for digital art enthusiasts and collectors, leveraging the power of blockchain technology for a seamless, secure, and innovative experience.

MemeMinter is a blockchain-based platform for meme-makers to make, mint, and sell their memes.
As a full-stack Engineer, I accomplished:
Creating and optimizing our landing page
 -  Creating our Meme Creator tool
 -  Optimized our web vital metrics
 -  Connected projects to BSC through MetaMask

As a part of 4 men team, we focused on detecting vulnerabilities on various websites such as Apple and Oppo. I managed to find many XSS bugs on Oppo and Apple and received bounties.

As a team member, I was mainly focused on XSS and developed 3 tools using Node.JS:
- Ayine: A CLI-based tool to detect parameter reflection for XSS attacks.
- Dozd: A CLI-based tool to crawl and extract URLs of the given website with the indicated depth.
- Fallparams: A CLI-based tool to extract different parameters to detect reflection on. This tool mainly uses AST (Abstraction Syntax Tree) to extract variables, element IDs, function parameters, and many other possible parameters.

All of the tools were developed using Puppeteer and Typescript.

My name can be found in Apple's security acknowledgment credits here (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213636), my name has a little typo. (Pouya Mozafarz Moghadam)

At Cafe Bazaar, Iran's most prominent Android marketplace with over 40 million users, I had the opportunity to work as a Frontend Engineer, focusing on delivering an exceptional management dashboard experience for over 22,000 developer teams. During my time at Cafe Bazaar from November 2018 to March 2022, I took ownership of the Developers' Panel and contributed to a wide range of improvements and innovations.

My key accomplishments at Cafe Bazaar included:
- Monitoring and resolving bugs, prioritizing high-impact issues identified through Sentry
- Migrating the legacy Vue project to Vue-CLI and upgrading packages for better performance
- Implementing CDN for assets and files, optimizing load times and user experience
- Reducing deployment time from 14 minutes to an average of 3 minutes
- Establishing staging deployments for each branch individually, streamlining the development process
- Developing and open-sourcing AsyncActions and Emrooz packages to address specific needs in Vue2 and Vue3 projects (Available at https://github.com/cafebazaar/emroozjs & https://github.com/cafebazaar/async-actions)
- Architecting and implementing a new API layer for loose coupling of components and APIs (Dependency Inversion)
- Creating an in-house authentication system and migrating tests from Mocha & Chai to Jest
- Designing a roadmap to transition the overall architecture to micro front-end, aiming to reduce maintenance costs and team dependencies

As an interviewer, I also improved the interview process, evaluated candidates, reviewed resumes, and mentored new hires. Additionally, as the chapter leader of the panel chapter, I managed a team to achieve our milestones, focusing on maintenance and performance.

I joined the 3 men team of Front-Engineers to create our animation tool called Teatre.JS using Typescript. My responsibility was to create animations to demo our features using React.js, Three.JS, and Typescript.

As a Front-End Engineer, I consider myself responsible to teach my skills to whomever I can, through the path of improving people and communities around me. As a result, I joined ExpertRoad to hold HTML5/CSS3 and Javascript courses.
Also, to make teaching programming more fun and cost less, I developed a software called CodeLive which can be found here (https://github.com/pmzi/CodeLive)

I built Gerdoo’s auto-run and auto-run creator. It’s a high performance cross-platform auto-run with robust UI/UX and a successor to their previous one.

As a member of the development team, I designed & developed Hacka{Iran}'s website with React.js and Node.js. Besides, I developed a tool for evaluating open source projects which are called HOPE (https://github.com/HackaIran/HOPE) with many other open source projects (https://github.com/hackairan).

I was also present as a part of the event management team in handling HackaTeamup{Karaj} 3 & HackaTeamuo{Karaj} 4.

Working as Front-End Developer and site support and application tutorial film producer. 
Their site is also created by me.

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Keshia Coriolan

Software developer & tech support team lead

Arash Esmaeilbeygi

Front-end Engineer

Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshandeh

Front-end Developer

I know how challenging it can be to grow as a software engineer, and I believe the right guidance can make all the difference. That’s why I dedicate time to mentoring—helping others navigate their careers, improve their skills, and gain confidence in their work. In our sessions, we can: Explore career growth – From getting your first job to advancing in your role, I’ll share insights based on real-world experience. Deepen your technical skills – Whether you're working with React on the frontend or Node.js on the backend, I can help you level up. Navigate workplace challenges – We can discuss collaboration, communication, and strategies for thriving in a professional environment. I aim to provide honest, practical guidance tailored to your journey. Let’s connect!

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