Technology Stack

🤖 LLMs & Agentic AI

Anthropic Claude OpenAI ChatGPT GitHub Copilot Azure AI Foundry AWS Bedrock Grok Meta Llama DeepSeek Ollama Eliza

🔧 Backend Development

Spring Boot DotNet Core FastAPI Django Flask Express.js

💻 Frontend Development

React Angular JavaScript TypeScript HTML5/CSS3 Bootstrap

📱 Mobile Development

Android iOS React Native WatchOS Wear OS

🗄️ Databases

PostgreSQL MS SQL MySQL Oracle MongoDB Firebase

☁️ Cloud & DevOps

Azure AWS GCP Azure OpenShift Kafka Docker Kubernetes Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure Bicep Ansible Makefile

🤖 AI & Data Science

OpenAI GPT Azure AI AWS Bedrock TensorFlow PyTorch ML Pipelines Tableau Power BI

🔐 Security & Monitoring

OAuth 2.0 JWT Azure Key Vault APIGEE Dynatrace Elasticsearch Azure Monitor Azure App Insight

⛓️ Blockchain

Ethereum Solidity Truffle Ganache

Experiences

CIBC Commercial Banking & Payments (Application Solution Architect)

AZ OpenShift Spring Boot React Kafka APIM PostgreSQL AZ VM Oracle RSA VPN Tunnel Akamai F5 Dynatrace Splunk GitHub Actions CyberArk JFrog FCM AKV Hashi Corp SQL MI
  • Project 1 - CMO Mobile migration and modernization. Lead solution architect to bring a legacy application that supports mobile and web app from CGI infra to CIBC Azure, plus new features and functionalities. Supporting 3000 users at go-live.
  • Project 2 - Safer Payment Canada migration from IBM infra to CIBC. Participated in design, POCs, application launch and cost reduction strategies. Roadmap planning for millions of dollars in cost reduction, network configuration between multiple VNets and NSG rules, F5 configurations for local HA and global DR, APIM/RBAC/MSI/SSL configurations.
  • Project 3 - Pinot US payment fraud solution lead architect. Building new infra to support fraud detection at various points of the payment. Architected highly available distributed systems across Azure and hybrid infrastructures leveraging Kafka for event-driven processing and Azure OpenShift for container orchestration. Embedded observability through Splunk, Dynatrace, and Azure Monitor.
  • Project 4 - Fraud Analysis Engine: vendor-based solution to determine if a payment should be on hold for review based on user interactions and payment models. Lead architect and solution designer, tech lead for full delivery. Azure-based solution with SOAP and REST integrations, VNet peerings, VPN Tunnel, SSL, SPNs. Integrations with SMTP, ServiceNow, CyberArk, Splunk, FeedHub, and Azure Monitor.

CIBC Enterprise Wires Modernization (Full-Stack Software Engineer)

AZ Function Apps Azure Data Factory SQL MI Data Bricks IBM MQ FeedHub Java React Entra Id NSG Azure Monitor Application Insight MS DevOps JFrog Blob Storage Azure VM Hashi Corp
  • Operational Data Store design lean
  • Ownership of AMH parser app development, and delivery. Enhanced performance by 10x.
  • Owner of ODS solution architecture, DevOps, design, capacity planning and delivery planning
  • ADF pipeline ownership. Optimized and generalized pipelines for file transfers; from upstream to downstream
  • Modernizing through Databricks analytics and Generative AI opportunities
  • Resolved security deviations, Tier 1 (high resiliency and availability) migration planning and design roadmap
  • Solution design to enhanced the performance of SQL MI DB on Azure by 25% by introducing a write-db to segregate read and write indexes.
  • Enhanced the performance of completeness validation for Swift’s MT to MX Conversion by 8x

Onex GPT-RAG Solution (Application Solution Architect & Full-Stack Software Engineer)

React Spring Boot Flask Azure OpenAI Service Search Service Form Recognizer Web App service plan Blob/Container MS OAuth Authorization with JWT and AZ SQL role based management REST
  • A Multi-index solution to chat with personal data.
  • Saved $300k per year in terms of lawyer costs for reviewing acquisition documentations.
  • Privacy management by RBAC and Azure Admin configurations
  • Chat history against each index has to be recorded per user
  • Has to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT capability for communication
  • Using Azure Search service for indexing
  • Using Form Recognizer to convert files from various sources into PDF
  • Source to the documents shown in GPT result should be referenced

Onex HR Integration Services (Application Solution Architect & Full-Stack Software Engineer)

Azure DevOps Azure Function Apps .Net Azure Data Factory AZ Blob Storage AZ Key Vault NSG
  • Architecture and design document included over a dozen external provider and two payroll systems for UK, US & Canada, test strategies, security/privacy, deployment and operations/maintenance
  • Hands-on development of the Dotnet solution
  • worked with HiBob, Greenhouse, Carrot, Cigna, Eyemed, Medavie Blue Cross, Shareworks, Fidelity, McAteer, OCA, Optum, Teladoc, iA, NY Life, ActivPayroll and ADP

Onex Finance Integration Services (Application Solution Architect & Full-Stack Software Engineer)

Azure DevOps Azure Function Apps DotNet AZ Blob Storage AZ Key Vault NSG
  • Integration between HiBob, Business Central and Coupa to track invoices and expenses based on companies
  • hands-on development of the DotNet app on AZ Functions Apps, talking to various APIs and applying required transformation logics

Autosavvy (Application Solution Architect)

Azure Data Factory MS SQL SaaS GitHub Actions
  • Workflow optimization and scalability solutions.
  • Database design, normalization and validation procedures
  • ADF and monitoring configurations

Scotiabank - GCP Migration Road-Map (Tech. Lead)

Gradle Spring Boot GCP SQL APIGEE Oracle migration
  • As a Sr. Architect I have worked with key stakeholders of Scotia Wealth department to present a business proposal for migrating their CRM ecosystem to GCP
  • Subsequently, I have worked with their department to build an architectural road-map, providing a phased migration strategy, along with the time-lines, low-hanging fruits and budgeting for the licenses and stages
  • Provided the modernized and future state architectural diagrams
  • Engaged with the client as a Tech. Lead to develop the required application, migrate data, and build the auth framework for S2S calls on GCP

Scotiabank - Fixed Income API (Tech. Lead)

Spring Boot Oracle REST & SOAP JAXB/WSDL/XSD/XML/Marshall Azure CDP WAM for OAuth2 Apigee Splunk Dynatrace
  • Developed an API for Charles Rivers to consume and search multiple on-prem DBs and services on BNS
  • Configured the authentication and authorization with API key and JWT
  • Built cursor based pagination for large search responses
  • Configured OpenAPI Doc for Swagger views, auto scaler, smart DNS, Redis, health check, logging, exception handling and SSL auth
  • Profile the application for IST, UAT, NFT and PRD (done for all projects)

Scotiabank - Remediation Application (Tech. Lead)

Spring Boot React MS SQL SaaS
  • Hands on with building the security configurations for this application, including integration with the Chassis framework for Auth and logging.
  • Developed major API endpoints. Also configured and addressed the issues for SonarQube, Fortify and BlackDuck.
  • As a tech lead I have reviewed the front/back end code, unit test cases and contributed to design and coding.
  • Performance enhancement of file upload by changing the DB design to handle data as objects
  • Performance increased for API calls by enhancing the search algorithm
  • Identified hard coded time outs on Azure Proxies and build a dynamic request on the front end to avoid unnecessary exceptions

Scotiabank - Real Time XML (Tech. Lead)

Java/Maven Azure VM
  • Real Time service that read market position data from IBM MQ and applies business logic to export data to Charles River SaaS DB through VPN tunnel
  • Migrated on-prem Oracle DB to SQL SaaS and built an API through VPN that allows reading and writing to the DB
  • Developed the new requirements for building an explicit security ID based on the position’s currency
  • Configured Maven dependencies, JNDI, 2-way SSL, Firewall and ASG

Scotiabank - Wealth Architecture Roadmap (Solution Architect)

  • A five year road map was developed for modernizing the current state of the Wealth department.
  • I contributed to building the desired end-state architecture and reverse Eng. that to a 5 year plan for adaptation, migration and modernizations
  • A runbook for merging with newly acquired investment platforms was delivered, that can reuse our efforts as a template

Scotiabank - ADPR App (Tech. Lead)

Maven Spring Batch Oracle DB MS SaaS SQL Tidel Linux RedHat
  • a backend service developed for reading data from multiple sources and updating multiple DBs, including report generations.
  • Developed the entire functionalities for reading from each source using StepBuilderFactory chunk/tasklet, customItem Reader/Writers and a listener for logging the stepValidation info
  • Configured the Flows and jobBuilderFactories for Tidal to execute a batch of steps

Scotiabank - Mediator API (Tech. Lead)

Spring Boot Oracle REST & SOAP JAXB/WSDL/XSD/XML/Marshall Azure CDP WAM for OAuth2 Apigee Splunk Dynatrace
  • An extra layer of security on top of multiple API applications deployed on Azure CDP.
  • External APIs will first get their JWT token authorized with this layered service and subsequently, this service will talk to other API services that has to go through another JWT access token verification

Aletha - TimeSheet App (Sr. Application Solution Architect & Full-Stack Developer)

Flask React SaaS SQL Azure App Service Azure Web Apps Entra Id
  • This app was implemented in Flask and React and deployed on Azure Web Apps using a SaaS SQL DB. I implemented the authentication and authorization piece using AAD.
  • Project justification: The original solution wasn’t supported by Azure for the expanded number of employees anymore
  • Configured AAD and AZ Web Apps on Azure console and Flask
  • Built a new table on SQL SaaS to handle user authentication with AAD
  • Configured React and Flask to allow Microsoft authentication routes
  • Configured the deployment script to Azure

Aletha - Side Projects (Sr. Application Solution Architect & Full-Stack Developer)

Flask React FastAPI Azure OpenAI PostgreSQL MS SQL Azure App Service Entra Id Docker
  • AI-based project effort estimator integrated with a chatbot that generates high-level architecture, deliverables, and PERT-based effort breakdowns per task
  • Interview agent full-stack solution to assist with first-round candidate screening
  • Custom full-stack Azure cost dashboard showing resource group and service-level breakdowns
  • SuiteCRM deployment to Azure
  • Timesheet app integrated with Azure Entra ID using Flask, React, and MSSQL in production (Jan 2022)
  • Chrome extension integrated with OpenAI for page summarization (Jan 2023)
  • Education app integrated with OpenAI; Dockerized FastAPI and PostgreSQL (Feb 2024)
  • Conducting interview sessions for hiring and mentoring team on AI trends across various functions

TATA Consultancy Services (Tech. Lead)

Java Spring Boot Express/Node.js Python C# Visual Basic MS SQL Git GitHub Jenkins Ansible UFT Elasticsearch ELK Splunk Dynatrace ClearCase Docker Kubernetes Power Automate
  • Leading on-site/offshore team of 20+ developers, BAs and quality control engineers
  • Azure migration, contributing in the like to like architect migration
  • Azure migration, contributing in the modernization including micro-services and APIs
  • Modernizing CI/CD pipelines; Contributing in DevOps migration of Git/Github and Jenkis
  • Hands on with system design, software development and code review
  • Refactoring code for enhanced complexities and faster expansion for future modification
  • Incorporating requirements into cost-effective, secure and user-friendly solutions
  • Production delivery of 100+ projects, known for reliability, scalability and durability
  • Developer on-boarding, financial estimations and ITIL management of incidents
  • Production support reduction through performance enhancement and improved quality
  • Collaboration with CIBC and Simplii for numerous project deliveries
  • Incorporating Elasticsearch as a log management system
  • Automation of code delivery for multiple applications using UFT
  • Development of a Python program for identifying leakages in project estimates
  • Building dashboards for Dynatrace to log resource utilization and online transaction
  • Developed VB Scripts for archiving feeds and reports from remote servers to NAS
  • Automation of data extraction from Outlook emails with Python, and feeding them to Power Automate for updating SharePoint lists and assigning tasks to the team leads

TATA Consultancy Services (Software Engineer)

  • Solution analyst for an online banking application
  • Big data analysis for finding the best pooling strategy for mortgages sold to investors
  • Prediction modeling for mortgage pooling strategy based on historical data
  • Building report based on Tableau and Crystal reports
  • Leading dozens of projects in mortgage department for mortgage securitization
  • Built reconciliation processes for the transactions between multiple applications
  • Specific reports built for government use i.e. CMHC, Genworth and Canada Guaranty
  • Leading a dev. team for delivering gaps found in projects delivered to production
  • Provide Solution to requirements and run impact analysis against existing modules
  • Working closely with QA for writing automated test cases
  • Packaging and delivering components and environment config into production
  • Maintaining a Kanban board for the status of project stories
  • Developer for an application that provides UI and backend for selling mortgages, managing investor’s and insurance portfolios, and internal/external reporting
  • Mortgage insurance and pooling process was optimized for maximum sale benefits
  • Skilled team player with motivating and clear communication skills
  • Presenting out of the box ideas to the business by maintaining trust and reliability Mentoring the junior developers and co-ops

St. Joseph Hospital - Imaging Centre (Researcher)

MATLAB Neural Networks Machine Learning Python
  • Worked with the head of the imaging center at St. Joseph’s hospital, for the purpose of automating the way a radiologist reads and analyzes lung images to find specific patterns which leads to classification of lung diseasesWorked with the head of the imaging center at St. Joseph’s hospital, for the purpose of automating the way a radiologist reads and analyzes lung images to find specific patterns which leads to classification of lung diseases
  • Developed a program using MATLAB for classification of 10 irregular radiological patterns with over 92% accuracy
  • Developed a feature extraction tool with Python to work with the radiologist and find the required ROIs

Education

🎓 Academic Background

  • PhD Computer Science @McMaster U.
  • M.Sc. Information Systems
  • B.Sc. Software Engineering

🏅 Honors & Awards

  • Recognized among the Top 3 Enterprise AI Solutions at CIBC's Dragon's Den Innovation Challenge (Dec 2025)
  • Ranked among top 20 developers at Scotiabank; BlueOptima (2023)
  • Ranked #1 among TCS Canada employees in T‑Factor (2017–2019)
  • St. Joseph’s Hospital Imaging Research Centre Scholarship (2014–2016)
  • McMaster University scholarship (4 years)

📜 Certifications

  • GitHub Copilot for Project Management — Microsoft (Issued Aug 2025) — Credential ID: GFC9PA4RXDBH
  • Microsoft Azure Machine Learning — Microsoft (Issued Aug 2025) — Credential ID: BCOUIGDVX7IA
  • Microsoft Azure Machine Learning for Data Scientists — Microsoft (Issued Aug 2025) — Credential ID: TIQZ9PRBMOV7
  • Generative AI for Leaders — Vanderbilt University (Issued Mar 2025) — Credential ID: 9RQIMDWYA1KD
  • Introduction to Generative AI for Data Analysis — Microsoft (Issued Mar 2025) — Credential ID: 5CI9CQGA47US
  • Agentic AI and AI Agents: A Primer for Leaders — Vanderbilt University (Issued Feb 2025) — Credential ID: ABW5ZDA6NJPQ
  • Change Management for Generative AI — Vanderbilt University (Issued Feb 2025) — Credential ID: RJFE0K9YDFNY
  • GenAI for Executives & Business Leaders: An Introduction — IBM (Issued Feb 2025) — Credential ID: 78OFXG3W8K7E
  • Foundational C# with Microsoft — freeCodeCamp (Issued Oct 2023)
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization — DeepLearning.AI (Issued Feb 2021) — Credential ID: 9V6DHNBTKDLG
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning — DeepLearning.AI (Issued Feb 2021) — Credential ID: W9XPC69CUB27
  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects — DeepLearning.AI (Issued Feb 2021) — Credential ID: NBNWVSNGJ9X9
  • Cloud Architecture: Core Concepts — Lynda.com (Issued Aug 2017)
  • DevOps Foundations — Lynda.com (Issued Aug 2017)
  • Six Sigma Foundations — Lynda.com (Issued Aug 2017)
  • Android Oreo Developer — Udemy
  • Microsoft Azure AZ‑900 — Microsoft
  • Convolutional Neural Networks — Coursera
  • Data Science and ML Bootcamp — Udemy
  • Development using Spring Boot — Udemy
  • Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure — Coursera
  • Machine Learning — Andrew Ng (Stanford/Coursera)
  • OOP in Java — University of Helsinki
  • Python and Django Full Stack Web Developer Bootcamp — Udemy
  • Sequence Models — Coursera
  • TCS DevOps Hackathon — Honored Achiever
  • TCS Machine Learning Hackathon
  • The Web Developer Bootcamp — Udemy
  • iOS 12 & Swift — Complete iOS App Development Bootcamp — Udemy
  • Machine Learning A‑Z: Hands‑on Python & R in Data Science — Udemy
  • The Ultimate Hands‑On Hadoop — Udemy
  • React — The Complete Guide (Hooks, Router, Redux) — Udemy
  • e‑commerce app with .NET Core and Angular — Udemy
  • Blockchain & Cryptocurrency | Full‑Stack — Udemy
  • MERN Stack Front To Back — Udemy
  • End to End Project Development Using Spring Boot — Udemy
  • Salesforce Integration Course: SOAP API — Udemy
  • Complete 2020 Data Science & Machine Learning Bootcamp — Udemy
  • Advanced ASP.NET Core 3.1 Razor Pages — Udemy
  • Full Stack: Angular and Java Spring Boot — Udemy

Featured Projects

AI & Machine Learning

🤖 AI-Powered Solutions

ChatGPT Azure AI Python TensorFlow
  • x-university: AI auto generated courses for different age groups
  • Agentic-AI: Frontend developer integrated with Teams application
  • PortfolioGPT - Stock market analysis with LSTM models
  • Multi-index ChatGPT solution with privacy management
  • Book Summarizer Chrome extension
  • Twitter & Reddit sentiment analysis tools
  • Azure video-to-text processing
Full-Stack Development

🌐 Enterprise Applications

Spring Boot React Angular MySQL
  • Interview Agent — full-stack candidate screening solution
  • Project effort estimator with PERT-based AI chatbot
  • Azure custom cost and security dashboard
  • Telegram-based news aggregator app
  • CRM ideathon
  • Flight Reservation System with check-in
  • Clinical Data Reporting Platform
  • eCommerce application
  • Document management system
  • Location tracking web application
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Mobile Development

📱 Mobile Applications

Android iOS Swift Kotlin
  • Stock price tracker with AI suggestions
  • Weather forecasting app
  • Bitcoin price monitor
  • Bluetooth device finder
  • Custom Chrome browser with ad-blocker
Automation & DevOps

⚡ Automation Tools

Python Java macOS APIs
  • MacOS app arranger solution on various virtual desktops, monitors and positions on each display
  • Windows custom hotkeys to mimic macOS keyboard shortcuts
  • Automated Yahoo Finance advertisement bot
  • Video download automation tool
  • macOS feature enablement shortcuts
  • Stock price web scraper
  • News summarization system
Blockchain

⛓️ Blockchain Solutions

Ethereum Solidity Truffle React
  • Full-stack cryptocurrency application
  • Smart contract development
  • Blockchain integration with modern web frameworks
  • Decentralized application (DApp) development
  • Personal bill/tax tracker
Enterprise Solutions

🏢 Production Systems

Spring Boot Azure SQL Server React
  • CIBC Commercial Banking modernization
  • Scotiabank wealth management platforms
  • Enterprise wire processing systems
  • Multi-million dollar migration projects
  • High-availability financial applications

Get In Touch

📧 Email

Zade.Mehrdad@Gmail.com

📍 Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ready to collaborate?

Let's discuss how I can help drive your next project to success.

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