Mehrdad Karami
Research Assistant at Virginia Tech College of Architecture, Arts, and Design
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMehrdad Karami is an architecture-trained professional pivoting into IT and software with 12 years of experience blending design, project coordination, and client-facing roles. Currently a Research Assistant at Virginia Tech and pursuing advanced architecture studies, he pairs hands-on Revit/AutoCAD expertise with formal IT training from New River Community College. His background as an architect and account manager gives him a practical edge in translating complex spatial requirements into technical solutions and user-focused workflows. Passionate about programming, networking, and cloud-native ideas, he seeks to fuse architectural thinking with scalable tech systems. Based in Blacksburg, VA, Mehrdad brings cross-disciplinary communication skills and a systems-oriented approach that’s uncommon among developers entering from design fields. He’s particularly interested in leveraging his spatial design insight to inform software tooling, data visualization, and infrastructure planning.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Architectural Engineering, Bachelor's degree Architectural Engineering at Yazd UniversityMaster of Architecture - MArch, Master of Architecture - MArch at Virginia TechAssociate's degree Information Technology, Associate's degree Information Technology at New River Community College
Persian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (118)
kafka-consumer10
twitter-api-v210
kafka10
apache10
expandablelistview10
twitter-api10
java10
scala10
sticky10
viewpager10
apache-kafka10
twitter-client10
architecture9
cqrs9
twitter9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
metao1/microservice-online-store
Mar 2020 - Mar 2023
Microservices online store is an e-commerce web application using microservice and event-driven architecture. Techstack: Spring boot, React, Kafka
Contributions:2 reviews, 140 commits, 83 PRs in 2 years 11 months
spring-bootmicroservice-architecturereactecommercereact-boot
metao1/mqtt-broker
May 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 50 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
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