Reza Mohammadi

Résumé, August 5, 2011

Summary

5 years experience on software designing, developing and deploying, maintaining source codes and analyzing software applications; mainly on Unix-based platforms. One year focused experience on localization of Android platform, involving patching dalvik, skia, webkit and the core libraries of Android OS to support Arabic rendering and other Iranian localization requirements.

Interested in software design, particularly in UI design.

Specialties

Software Design, Python, Java, Linux, Security

Personal Information

• First name: Reza (رضا)
• Family name: Mohammadi Ghayeghchi (محمدی قایقچی)
• Email address: reza æt teeleh dot ir
• Birth: September 1985; Mashhad, Iran

Education

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2003-2009
• Energy Atomi high-school and pre-university center, Tehran, Iran, 2002.

Experience

• Congenial Mobile Co.
  • Cofounder (6%)
  • Senior software developer, Jul 2010-present.
    • FarsiTel Project (Android localization project, Source Code)
      • Maintainer of the local source code repository of the FarsiTel project.
      • Maintainer of the build scripts and cooking the release ROMs.
      • Localization developer.
    • Bazaar Project (Android apps for Iranians)
      • Bazaar Android application (client)
      • CafeBazaar web store (server)
• Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc.
  • Senior software developer, FarsiTel (Android localization project), Nov 2009-Jul 2010. (Moved to Congenial Mobile Co.)
  • Network administrator and developer, Nov 2006-Sept 2007
• Iran Rayaneh Engineering Co.
  • Consultation and Implementation of the mobile interface of MiiroFiler office automation application, Oct 2009-Nov 2009
• SahanaPy Project, a RAD framework for Emergency Management applications
  • Implementation of the Delphi Decision Maker module, (demo), Sept 2009-Mar 2010.
• Zeerak Company, Ltd.
  • Cofounder (34%)
  • Chief technology officer, 2006-Oct 2009
    • IOAA: Preparing the two IPhO applications for the 3rd International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sept 2009-Oct 2009.
    • Tooti: An online platform for private individuals and commercial organizations to design, buy and sell creative and personalized apparel. Apr 2009-(Suspended; Because of the current political instability condition in Iran) (Some pictures).
    • Patching Apache Lucene to make the search module of the digital library of The Encyclopaedia of Iranian Architectural History compatible with Persian Loose Search Specifications, Mar 2009-Jun 2009.
    • Rahbaran Education Management System: A Learning Management System, heavily customized to fulfill requirements of the customer, Mar 2008-Dec 2008.
    • http://rele.ir: A tool to encourage people help some person/organization do some (we hope good) activity. It's a localized (Persian) clone of PledgeBank, Aug 2007-May 2008.
    • FTC Project: A forensic web application to classify files based on their types and detect forged extensions, Oct 2006-Feb 2008.
    • Tara (I): a GUI to create cryptography algorithms, Jun 2006-Jun 2007.
    • IPhO: Two web applications for the 38th International Physics Olympiad, Sept 2006-Jul 2007.
• Member of the University of Manchester team at the BioNLP'09 Shared Task, Jan 2009-Jun 2009.
• Member of SHETI Team, a grid project for solving the 131-bit Certicom ECC Challenge, Sep 2007-present.
• Science and art Foundation
  • One of the administrators of SchooLinux project, which was supported by saf, 2004-2005.
• Department of Mathematical Science, Sharif University of Technology
  • One of the administrators of Computer Science Club, 2006-2007.
  • Member of the jury of Sharif University’s scientific challenge for high school students, Mar 2006.
  • Design and implementation of an e-Shop for practicing J2ee rich internet application development using OpenLaszlo, 2005
  • One of the developers of GraphLab Project, 2004-2006.
  • Server administration and maintenance for Iranian Mathematical Society, http://ims.ir/, 2004-2005.
• Sepehr Mehr, Software Development Company
  • J2EE developer, Jun 2004-Sept 2005
• Member of GNOME Desktop translation team, 2006.
• Research Center for Science and Technology in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
  • Member of Analysis Section of Functional Imaging Group, 2005-2006.
• Energy Atomi high-school and pre-university center
  • Design and implementation of Mosahheh, a software OMR, 2001-2003 (cooperated with my friend Soroosh Radpoor).
  • Design and implementation of Optometrist assistant software, a software package of 8-test eye examination and pure tone audiometry, 2000-2001 (cooperated with my friend Mahdi Maleki).
  • Design and implementation of Librarian, a librarian assistant software, 2000-2003

Certificates and Honors

• Certified as an academic member participated in 38th International Physics Olympiad, held from July 13th to 22nd, 2007 in Isfahan.
• Ranked 507 in national university entrance examination among more than 400,000 participants, 2003.
• Silver Medal in National Olympiad in Informatics, Summer of 2002.
• Honored and ranked at Provincial level of Khwarizmi Young Festival for Mosahheh software, Nov 2003.
• Honored and ranked at National level of Khwarizmi Young Festival for Optometrist assistant software, Dec 2001.

Publications

• Lavasani, A., Mohammadi R., Implementing a feasible attack against ECC2K-130 certicom challenge, Poster abstracts from the eighth algorithmic number theory symposium, ANTS-8, ACM Communications in Computer Algebra, Volume 42 , Issue 1-2, March/June 2008, P. 61-62. DOI Bookmark:1394042.1394072
• Sarafraz, F., Eales, J., Mohammadi, R., Dickerson, J., Robertson, D., and Nenadic, G. 2009. Biomedical event detection using rules, conditional random fields and parse tree distances. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Bionlp: Shared Task (Boulder, Colorado, June 05 - 05, 2009). Human Language Technology Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ, 115-118. DOI Bookmark:1572340.1572359

Computer Skills

Programming and Web Development Platforms

• Python and Django (past 4 years, at Zeerak and Congenial Mobile)
• Java (4 years experience, at Cyber Mehr and Congenial Mobile)
• HTML, Javascript and CSS (past 6 years)
• J2EE (1 year experience, at Cyber Mehr)
• C/C++ (intermediate)

Databases

• Postgresql (at Zeerak and Congenial Mobile, past 3 years)
• Sqlite (past 4 years)
• MySQL (various applications, past 6 years)
• Oracle (at Cyber Mehr, for 1 year)

Version Control Systems

• Git + Repo (at Congenial Mobile, past 1 year)
• Bazaar (at Zeerak, for 2 years)
• SVN, CVS

Environment and Desktop

• Mac OS X
  • OpenOffice.org applications, TextMate, Gimp, Inkscape, ...
• Linux (prefer Gnome on Ubuntu)
  • OpenOffice.org applications, Vi, Gimp, Inkscape, ...

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, Data Structure and Algorithms, under supervision of Dr. Yahya Tabesh, Department of Mathematical Science, Sharif university of Technology, Fall 2006 and Fall 2007
• Teaching and coordinating a summer course about free software in Mouood highschool, 2005.
• Linux Instructor in ICT House, Tehran, 2005.
• Linux Instructor in Zahedan IT Center, 2005.
• Teaching a complete course for Linux Administration in Sharif Computing Center, 2004.
• Teaching Delphi and C++ in Energy Atomi high-school, 2003 - 2004.

Languages

• Persian: Fluent
• English: Total of 101 in TOEFL iBT (Oct 2008), Overall Band Score of 6.5 IELTS (Academic) (May 2008)
• Arabic: Intermediate

Miscellaneous

• GRE Subject: Computer Science: 790/900