Head of Transformation
Mofid Securities
Setting and leading the enterprise transformation agenda across strategy, operating model, technology, and leadership.
From engineering systems to transforming organisations
My career has expanded in scope: from writing software, to designing systems, to leading teams, to shaping how organisations operate and change.
Engineering remains an important foundation. The work today is broader: connecting strategy to execution and aligning operating models, governance, technology, leadership, and capability around a shared outcome.
How the scope widened
- Engineering
Writing the systems
The scope was a codebase: shipping features, fixing what broke, and learning what production-ready actually means when other people depend on your work.
- Architecture
Designing the systems
From code to systems — distributed architecture, platform decisions, and the trade-offs that determine whether something holds under load.
- Technology leadership
Leading the people who build the systems
From architecture to teams: hiring, structuring, and setting technical direction for engineering organisations across fintech and telecom.
- Digital transformation
Connecting technology to strategy
Beyond engineering: advising leadership teams on how technology decisions should follow business strategy rather than drive it.
- Transformation leadership
Changing how the organisation works
Technology, operating model, governance, and leadership treated as one problem, across programmes that touch how an entire organisation operates.
- Executive leadership
Owning the agenda
Setting the enterprise transformation agenda at executive level, and being accountable for whether the change holds.
Career history
Digital Transformation Consultant
Dchange
Advising leadership teams on digital strategy, technology direction, and the organisational capabilities required to sustain change.
Senior Vice President of Software Development
Redington
Led engineering for investment management platforms, setting technical direction and building teams in a regulated environment.
Earlier engineering roles 5 roles, 2010–2021
- 2021
Senior Software Developer
Spreadex · St Albans, England
Trading systems where latency translated directly into commercial outcomes.
- 2018 - 2021
Senior Software Developer
Geeks Ltd · London, England
Enterprise consulting across sectors, each engagement with a different organisation and set of constraints.
- 2015 - 2018
Lead Software Engineer
EGSDigital (Ertebat Gostar) · Tehran, Iran
First leadership role, running a team building telecom infrastructure at national scale.
- 2014 - 2015
Senior Software Developer
SabaCell · Tehran, Iran
Network management systems for a telecom provider.
- 2010 - 2014
Software Engineer → Senior Developer
IPPSoft · Tehran, Iran
Where the career began — four years from graduate engineer to senior developer.
Recognition
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UK Global Talent Visa (2020)
Endorsed as Exceptional Talent in Digital Technology by Tech Nation.
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Summa Cum Laude and Best Original Thesis (2016)
Graduated with highest honours from Iran University of Science and Technology, with the thesis recognised as Best Original Thesis of the year.
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Merit scholarships
Full academic scholarships for undergraduate and graduate study.
Education
- 2013 - 2016
Iran University of Science and Technology
Master's Degree, Summa Cum Laude in Software Engineering
Best Original Thesis of the Year
- 2008 - 2013
Guilan University
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Full academic scholarship recipient