Siamak Zolghadri, Developer in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Siamak Zolghadri

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Bio

Siamak is a geospatial engineer with an academic background in geomatics and has experience in the energy, environmental, science, and technology sectors since 1990. Following decades of GIS projects as a developer, technical lead, and solution designer, he has been a solution architect on many complex projects and programs worldwide since 2016.

Portfolio

Bureau of Meteorology
Web Mapping, Smallworld, Geospatial Data, AWS Cloud Architecture...
National Disability Insurance Agency
Location Services and Maps, Microservices Architecture, Architecture, Azure...
nfoldROI
Smallworld, ArcGIS, Geospatial Data, Web Mapping, AWS Cloud Architecture...

Experience

  • Geospatial Data - 20 years
  • Web Mapping - 20 years
  • GIS - 20 years
  • AWS Cloud Architecture - 10 years
  • JavaScript - 10 years
  • Esri - 5 years
  • Data - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Web Mapping, Smallworld, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GIS, Geospatial Data, QGIS, JavaScript, ArcGIS, Geospatial Analytics

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is my community project, Smallworld GIS IDE for Visual Studio Code, which thousands of developers worldwide have adopted.

Work Experience

Solution Architect

2019 - PRESENT
Bureau of Meteorology
  • Architected and designed a cloud solution for the Australian National Water Data Hub, with time-series data ingestion from hundreds of sources, real-time water trading data, data catalog, website presentation layer, web mapping, and spatial queries.
  • Designed architecture, high-level design (HLD), and detailed designs for many work packages across radar, rainfall, and satellite scientific areas and conducted the predictive analysis.
  • Created situational awareness, weather visualization, and monitoring platforms.
  • Developed over 10 HLDs and solution architecture descriptions, conceptual design, business, data, application, technology, integration, security risk, and impact assessments.
  • Worked on solution architecture, tender document preparation and tender response reviews, business showcases, and go-live document releases.
  • Built multiple solutions for hybrid and on-premise virtualized, high-performance computing and AWS cloud platforms.
Technologies: Web Mapping, Smallworld, Geospatial Data, AWS Cloud Architecture, ArcGIS Online (AGOl), Data, Geospatial Analytics, Esri, Location Services and Maps, Software Architecture, Architecture, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Solution Architecture, GIS, OpenStreetMap, JavaScript, GIS Cloud, Satellite Images, Windows, GeoServer, Software Design, Geographic Information Systems, QGIS, Algorithms, Maps, Google Maps API, OpenStreetMap API, GeoJSON, APIs, OpenLayers, Front-end, Data Modeling, Cloud Services, Spatial Analysis, Cloud Architecture, Technical Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, KML, API Integration, Third-party APIs, Technical Leadership, Machine Learning, Vue, Mapbox, Cloud, SFTP, Digital Elevation Models, Geodatabases, React, Engineering Management, Delivery Management, Mapbox API, TypeScript

Solution Architect

2022 - 2023
National Disability Insurance Agency
  • Created cloud solution components, location services, and API microservices.
  • Developed a digital channel solution, mobile app, and web portals.
  • Designed integration solutions for business services, such as print/mail house, accessibility mail, OCR and document digitizing, and video calling screening.
  • Architected C-POS payment transactions from care service to a transaction database, payment reconciliation journal, recording in a central ledger, and funds repayments to the bank.
  • Migrated from a legacy CRM to the Salesforce cloud, leveraging the microservice API architecture.
Technologies: Location Services and Maps, Microservices Architecture, Architecture, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Solution Architecture, Microservices, GIS, GIS Cloud, Windows, Geospatial Data, Geographic Information Systems, Algorithms, Maps, GeoJSON, APIs, SFTP, Events, Streaming, Accessibility, Web Accessibility, Oracle Managed File Transfer (MFT), Document Digitization, POS, Front-end, Data Modeling, Cloud Services, Spatial Analysis, Cloud Architecture, Technical Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, KML, API Integration, Third-party APIs, Technical Leadership, Machine Learning, Cloud, Financial APIs, Financial Transactions, EPOS, eCommerce, Geospatial Analytics, Engineering Management, Delivery Management

Solution Architect | Technical Lead

2006 - 2019
nfoldROI
  • Performed product architecture, design, technical lead, and development to adjust IT products for geodatabase conflation on GE Smallworld GIS and ArcGIS.
  • Served as the resident scientist for data conflation in we-do-IT and led the solution for several data transformation and conflation projects in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
  • Acted as the solution architect for many projects and had been actively involved in solution design in response to a series of RFPs for various projects.
Technologies: Smallworld, ArcGIS, Geospatial Data, Web Mapping, AWS Cloud Architecture, Microservices Architecture, Geospatial Analytics, Esri, Digital Cadastral DataBase (DCDB), Software Architecture, Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Solution Architecture, Leadership, GIS, OpenStreetMap, Magik, GIS Cloud, Satellite Images, Windows, GeoServer, Software Design, Geographic Information Systems, QGIS, Algorithms, Maps, Google Maps API, OpenStreetMap API, GeoJSON, APIs, OpenLayers, Front-end, Data Modeling, Cloud Services, Spatial Analysis, Cloud Architecture, Technical Architecture, KML, SVG, Technical Leadership, Cloud, GRASS GIS, Digital Elevation Models, Geodatabases, Digital Asset Management, Management, Engineering Management, Delivery Management

Senior Product Support

2004 - 2005
GE Digital
  • Joined GE Network Solutions, part of GE Digital Energy to work as a support engineer in the Smallworld telecom product and support team at the Cambridge office in the UK.
  • Provided cross-module code and information to Smallworld core and telecom product teams.
  • Resolved product issues coming through the Smallworld help desks all around the world.
Technologies: Smallworld, Geospatial Data, Geospatial Analytics, Leadership, GIS, Magik, Windows, Geographic Information Systems, Algorithms, Maps, Spatial Analysis, KML, Technical Leadership, Digital Elevation Models, Geodatabases, Digital Asset Management, Management, Engineering Management

GIS Developer

2000 - 2003
DXC Technology
  • Worked on the national digital cadastre database for Land Information New Zealand.
  • Improved the spatial accuracy of the digital cadastre database by the conflation of geodetic networks.
  • Developed integration between the conflation environment in Smallworld GIS and LINZ cadastre land information system in ESRI geodatabase.
Technologies: Smallworld, GIS, Magik, Windows, Geospatial Data, Geographic Information Systems, Algorithms, Maps, Spatial Analysis, KML, SVG, Web Development, Digital Elevation Models, Geodatabases, Digital Asset Management, Geospatial Analytics, Engineering Management

Experience

Situational Awareness Application

This application is a situational awareness solution for monitoring weather events. It ingests 60 data layers from a wide range of observational and forecasting systems. It is delivered into a web mapping platform augmented with a Mapbox base tile layer using Open Source for over 300 web clients.

Gas Networks Migration from CAD to GIS (Australia)

The migration of a gas network from a bespoke CAD system to GE Smallworld Gas Office GIS entailed converting data and transforming local coordinate systems based on the geo-referencing point in each CAD file to a seamless geospatial database with a geocentric coordinate system.

Data Hub based on Data Mesh and Data Fabric Architecture

This data hub is an AWS Cloud solution for collecting surface water data to enable Government organizations to perform their legislative responsibilities. This solution ingests data from numerous data providers nationwide into a Mesh Data Lake and processes it through a data pipeline to a Data Fabric layer to publish to the public and registered consumers.

Location Services for Insurance Solution

This solution was to implement location services into various systems in a Government Insurance Scheme. This solution used the national address database to identify participants' locations and assist them in finding service providers near their locations. The location services expanded into detecting suspicious claims and many other various business systems for eCommerce, communications, document management, budgeting, online care, auditing, reporting, and many external service provider systems.

Education

1986 - 1990

Bachelor's Degree in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering

KNT University of Technology - Tehran, Iran

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Google Maps API, OpenStreetMap API, ArcGIS, OpenLayers, Turf.js, Mapbox API, Vue, React

Tools

Esri, GIS, Web GIS, FME, AutoCAD, GRASS GIS, EPOS

Languages

Magik, KML, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript

Paradigms

Microservices Architecture, Application Architecture, ETL, Management, Microservices

Platforms

GIS Cloud, Windows, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mapbox, Azure, ArcGIS Online (AGOl)

Storage

GeoServer, Data Lake Design, PostgreSQL

Other

Web Mapping, AWS Cloud Architecture, Location Services and Maps, Data, Geodetics, Photogrammetry, Digital Cadastral DataBase (DCDB), Geospatial Data, Geospatial Analytics, Solution Design, Solution Architecture, Geodatabases, Operations Management Systems (OMS), Digital Terrain Model (DTM), Software Architecture, Architecture, Leadership, Smallworld, OpenStreetMap, Software Design, Geographic Information Systems, Algorithms, GeoJSON, Maps, APIs, Data Modeling, Cloud Services, Spatial Analysis, Cloud Architecture, Technical Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Technical Leadership, Cloud, Digital Elevation Models, Digital Asset Management, Engineering Management, Delivery Management, Remote Sensing, Satellite Images, QGIS, SVG, API Integration, Third-party APIs, SAP ERP, SFTP, Streaming, Accessibility, Web Accessibility, Oracle Managed File Transfer (MFT), Document Digitization, POS, Events, Front-end, Machine Learning, Web Development, Financial APIs, Financial Transactions, eCommerce, Back-end, Time Series Data

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