Get to know me
Hi, I’m Aref. I’m an Engineer at the core — though, for a brief moment, I almost wanted to become a pilot. By day, I write the codes! Currently, I’m working close to the hardware on embedded systems, but my path here has been anything but linear. I’ve built startups from the ground up, worked in established companies handling millions of requests per second, and dived deep into computer vision. I think it’s such a cliché, but I define myself as a person who can’t shy away from a challenge — an engineering challenge, to be precise. Especially if the challenge includes a "juicy refactor".
By night, the engineering just doesn’t stop. You’ll find me tinkering with LLMs and automated bots, CAD modelling and 3D printing. And if it’s a sunny Saturday? I’m likely covered in grease, fixing my car or driving it to the nearest Cars and Coffee.
Work & projects
A selective look at the roles and builds that shaped me.
Automata Tech · London, UK
Building the software layer that makes laboratory robots talk to the cloud. High-level instrument drivers, backend integration, and the infrastructure glue in between.
Read moreSprout AI · London, UK
Serving machine learning models in production — FastAPI backends, Redis caching, and AWS infrastructure with kserve keeping PyTorch models alive under real traffic.
Read moreCafe Bazaar · Tehran, Iran
Three years on the search team — starting as an engineer on Elasticsearch and Django, eventually leading the team through a full migration from monolith to microservices on Kubernetes.
Read moreNAO Biped Lab · Qazvin, Iran
Five years in a university robotics lab — writing vision and localization systems for humanoid robots, competing at RoboCup, and eventually leading the team itself.
Read moreRobotic Summer School — 1st Prize
A fully autonomous robot built in a week for a disaster scenario — and it won. Real-time mapping, sensor fusion, and a team that didn't sleep much.
Read morearXiv:1911.03630
My master's research: using Spiking Neural Networks with Dynamic Vision Sensors to recognise gestures — a more biologically plausible approach to action recognition.
Read moreCafe Bazaar Internal Hackathon
A self-driving RC car built in a weekend using end-to-end learning on top of ResNet. It drove several miles autonomously. We have video.
Read moreMicroservices Refactor
Led the split of a Django search monolith into Kubernetes microservices with a multi-layered Redis caching system — handling millions of daily requests.
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