# Mahmood Ramezani > Never live the same day twice! Location: Rockville, Maryland, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mahmood ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech Jan 2022 – Present | Reston, Virginia, United States > Point of Sale, NextGen platform • Designed, developed, and maintained libraries using OpenTelemetry that are used across organization to report metrics to increase visibility on different systems, including POS • Participated in stockholder meetings, gathered requirements and created technical design documents to solve complex problems • Worked across teams to lead the efforts for reporting signals to maintain visibility on the systems and create alerts based on business requirements • Used Grafana to create dashboards with different levels of details to visualize data for different purposes • Daily code reviews to ensure the quality of the code and increased test coverage over the code base to increase reliability (unit and integration) • Designed models for metrics based on Golden Signals to monitor customer experience through metrics • Created CI/CD pipeline to run tests, build and publish packages based on git hooks • Used git hooks to ensure commit qualities and consistent formatting for the code base ### Lead Software Engineer @ Saltech Systems Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Ames, Iowa, United States • Developed and implemented agile software process for incoming projects for better time and resource management, enabling continues delivery, and better customer experience • Interviewed customers to compile requirements list, analyzed and translated them into planned sprints • Managed development and deliveries of multiple projects in different languages and various technologies according to the project requirements and customer needs • Managed company resources using asana to increase transparency and efficiency • Optimized MySQL database indexes and partitioning of an old application with huge number of users to ensure the service availability • Responsible for team development and talent acquisition ### Senior Developer @ Saltech Systems Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ames, IA • Created and maintained a project from scratch using Angular which is currently used by a multinational enterprise company • Used flutter to develop applications on Android and iOS to work with real time data with sync capabilities • Developed a web application and a RESTful web API using ColdFusion to be consumed by phone applications • Used a NoSQL Object database (couchbase) with load-balancing and real time sync features to store application data and ensure availability • Planned, developed and, delivered different software projects considering different requirements and deadlines • Used UX research techniques to discover and prioritize user requirements for planning sprints in an agile development environment ### Full Stack Developer (II) @ Handrail, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Coralville, Iowa • Implemented multiple RESTful endpoints with different content types using jax-rs and resteasy to be consumed by the web client application • Actively collaborated with design and discovery team to get the current customer needs, process them, and consider them in software implementations • Used TDD techniques to produce high quality, testable, and reliable code using various tests such as unit tests, integration tests, and cucumber tests (BDD) • Identified and fixed defected, and Improved performance of the application by analyzing the functionality and eliminating redundant requests and integrating them into one Graph-like request • Studied and brought in ideas of using SSE, MQTT, and other technologies to improve the performance and usability of the application • Modified code base to use graph database (Neo4j) instead of relational database (MySQL) • Implemented functions on web client (written in JavaScript, AngularJs, and React) to communicate with the server around the new endpoints and data structures • Used automated deployment pipelines, CI/CD techniques, and automated tests with gocd to ensure the reliability and efficiency of code development • Designed and developed data models and underlying database structure using hibernate • Used AWS, Okta, and many other service providers across the application to ensure security and scalability • Use Docker to containerize the application for on-premise installations and horizontal scaling ### Full Stack Developer @ Nebullam, LLC Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ames, IA • Designed, developed, documented, and tested software to functional requirements in established guidelines and time frames • Implemented a web2.0 user interface to connect to embedded systems in order ot visualize real time data and run commands on them remotely • Analyzed user requirements and prepared functional and software specifications for software systems solutions • Designed and implemented a MySQL database on Amazon AWS based on the application requirements • Experienced working with different IoT technologies and protocols such as CoAP, MQTT, EventListeners • Experienced using ReactJS, Sass, Gulp, Handlebars, NodeJS in an industry-level application • Hands on CI/CD technologies ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Iowa State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Virtual Reality Application Center • Developed a suite of web applications for natural language processing (NLP) using available technologies on servers such as PHP, MySQL • Made the applications to be used by different teams but share an integrated database to ensure data consistency • Developed export function to generate structured output to be used by machine learning algorithms for training • Used Google OAuth2.0 and OpenID service to authenticate and authorize users and integrate authentication with university sign-on services • Designed and developed different user interfaces for each application based on user interviews and human-centered design concepts using twitter bootstrap CSS library and jQuery • Worked in an agile environment, provided progress report on a weekly basis • Collaborated with teams of people from linguistics, computer science, statistics, and veterinary medicine. • Implemented tailor-made and innovative solutions to modify existing “Research Writing Tutor (RWT)” website source code to meet the security and scaling needs to move it to a public server • Integrated WordPress’s built-in user management with custom PHP code to manage users and provide work history for website users • Created robust software solution to read and import data from other applications and process data to produce interactive visuals ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Iowa State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | United States - Taught a graduate level course titled "Virtual worlds and applications" - Helped students to troubleshoot their VR and 3D applications written in unity3d (C#) ### Software Developer @ Iowa State University - Virtual Reality Application Center (VRAC) Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | United States Designed and developed augmented reality application for Microsoft HoloLens to facilitate demoing in Virtual Reality Application Center of Iowa State University using Unity and C#. ### Full Stack Web Developer @ Shiraz University Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Fars Province, Iran • Designed and created an integrated database for storing data using MS SQL Server • Used .Net membership provider to manage users and add different access levels to the application • Designed and implemented the front-end based on user needs to ensure efficiency and usability • Designed and developed different types of reports based on the stored data using .Net reports • Deployed complicated calculations logics back-end to ensure validity and reliability for salaries • Selected as sole communicator with managers and users to discover their needs and develop the software based on that information ### Software Developer @ Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Tehran Province, Iran Designed and developed software to calculate and visualize newton forward interpolation method using visual basic 6.0 ### Computer Lab Assistant @ Department of Mining & Metallurgical Engineering - Amirkabir university of technology Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Iran Software and hardware technical support including: - Responsible for students computer issues - Troubleshooting servers - Network administration, maintenance and expansion - Active directory management - Student accounts management (including printing services, internet services and...) ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interaction Iowa State University Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### Master’s Degree in Information Technology Shiraz University Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor's degree in Mining and Mineral Engineering Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/m10241 --- Source: https://flows.cv/mahmood JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mahmood/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22