Morteza Alizadeh

Led and mentored a team of 10 software engineers, providing technical leadership, architectural guidance, and engineering governance across multiple concurrent initiatives to ensure high-quality solution delivery.

Defined the long-term technology roadmap for the Self Service Technology (SST) platform, driving platform modernization, legacy consolidation, and architectural simplification to enhance long-term scalability and performance.

Championed AI-first software engineering by introducing specification-driven development and AI-assisted practices across architecture, implementation, testing, and code reviews, significantly improving engineering productivity and delivery quality.

Established robust engineering standards, technical governance, and modern software engineering practices, enhancing software quality, delivery consistency, and overall engineering maturity for critical airport automation solutions.

Cultivated trusted relationships with customers, executive stakeholders, and delivery teams, ensuring technology decisions aligned with business objectives, commercial priorities, and successful customer outcomes for solutions deployed across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

Founded and architected a multi-tenant enterprise SaaS platform, supporting both private organizations and coworking operators with robust, scalable solutions.

Defined the long-term technology strategy, product roadmap, and platform architecture, balancing customer needs, scalability, maintainability, and commercial objectives.

Established an AI-first software engineering model using specification-driven development and AI-assisted workflows, significantly accelerating product delivery and engineering productivity.

Led product discovery, customer engagement, pricing strategy, and go-to-market planning, translating customer feedback into product direction and platform capabilities.

Built a modern cloud-native SaaS platform, establishing engineering standards, CI/CD pipelines, architectural governance, and scalable engineering practices to ensure high performance and reliability.

Provided Principal Engineering leadership for the strategic integration of Kiwibank's existing digital banking platform with Thought Machine Vault, ensuring seamless and secure system interoperability.

Defined enterprise architecture and API strategies, supporting scalable, secure, and maintainable banking services for critical financial operations.

Improved engineering quality by introducing comprehensive testing strategies and engineering practices across the software delivery lifecycle, enhancing reliability and reducing defects.

Enhanced CI/CD pipelines and engineering automation, improving delivery reliability and deployment confidence across the development and operations teams.

Collaborated closely with engineering teams, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver a complex enterprise transformation while maintaining architectural consistency and engineering standards.

Provided technical leadership for the implementation of an event-driven data platform supporting IFRS 17 reporting, ensuring compliance and data accuracy.

Introduced engineering standards and development practices that improved code quality, maintainability, and delivery consistency across the development team.

Optimized streaming data processing and deployment pipelines, reducing operational complexity and improving platform reliability.

Explored automated testing approaches for streaming technologies, helping establish quality practices for an evolving technology stack and enhancing system robustness.

Contributed to the modernization of a mission-critical enterprise platform through cloud-native engineering practices and architectural improvements, enhancing system performance.

Helped establish engineering standards and software quality practices that supported the organization's cloud transformation journey, ensuring seamless migration and operation.

Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver complex modernization initiatives while minimizing customer impact and maintaining platform stability across multiple international markets.

Helped shape the evolution of the platform architecture, improving scalability, maintainability, and long-term engineering sustainability for global cinema management systems.

Defined the enterprise architecture and API-first strategy for Kiwibank's next-generation digital banking platform, establishing scalable engineering foundations for future platform growth.

Played a key leadership role in the integration of the Thought Machine Vault core banking platform, enabling the modernization of the bank's digital banking capabilities and service offerings.

Helped reshape engineering hiring, mentoring, and technical leadership practices, contributing to the growth of the platform engineering organization from approximately 5 to 40 engineers.

Introduced modern software engineering practices, including specification-driven API development, extensive code generation, automated testing, and shift-left engineering principles, improving software quality and delivery consistency.

Influenced engineering direction across multiple teams through technical leadership, architectural guidance, mentoring, and hands-on software development, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Established modern cloud-native engineering practices and platform standards that improved scalability, maintainability, and long-term engineering sustainability for critical banking systems.

Led a cross-functional engineering team of up to 20 engineers, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance across multiple digital initiatives.

Contributed to the execution of IAG's multi-year digital transformation strategy, supporting the adoption of Microsoft Azure and modern cloud-native platform capabilities.

Defined and delivered API-first integration solutions, enabling scalable partner integrations and supporting the organization's digital ecosystem.

Helped establish engineering standards, software delivery practices, and architectural consistency across the digital platform, enhancing overall system quality.

Collaborated with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering leaders to align technology decisions with strategic business objectives and customer outcomes.

Led and mentored a cross-functional engineering team of up to 30 engineers, providing technical leadership, architectural guidance, and engineering direction.

Contributed to the design and delivery of a globally distributed cloud platform, supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient storage and compute services.

Helped establish engineering standards, cloud-native development practices, and software delivery processes that improved platform quality and long-term maintainability.

Collaborated with architects and engineering teams to evolve the platform architecture, enabling future scalability, operational resilience, and continuous innovation.

Led and mentored cross-functional engineering teams, providing technical leadership, architectural guidance, and engineering direction across multiple healthcare platform initiatives.

Contributed to the evolution of Orion Health's enterprise healthcare platform, supporting patient administration, clinical workflows, inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care services.

Helped define platform architecture, engineering standards, and software delivery practices that improved platform quality, maintainability, and long-term scalability.

Collaborated with architects, product teams, and business stakeholders to align technology decisions with customer requirements, regulatory compliance, and long-term platform strategy.

Designed and implemented enterprise integration frameworks, supporting banking peripherals, middleware, and host system connectivity across complex banking environments.

Contributed to the development of multi-channel banking platforms, delivering scalable solutions for digital banking and branch automation.

Designed distributed communication components and infrastructure that improved system scalability, simplified host integration, and reduced operational complexity.

Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams to improve software quality, address technical debt, and establish maintainable long-term platform solutions.

Designed and developed embedded Linux platforms, device integration frameworks, and low-level software supporting enterprise and industrial systems.

Engineered communication protocols, device drivers, and networking components that improved hardware integration, system reliability, and operational efficiency.

Delivered software solutions across embedded systems, Windows, and Linux platforms, working across the full software stack from hardware interfaces through to enterprise applications.