Available for new engagements

Cloud, data & AI architecture that moves the business.

I'm Payam, an independent consultant helping companies migrate to the cloud, modernise DevOps, build data platforms and adopt AI with measurable ROI. I've done this in finance, algorithmic trading, e-commerce, CRM platforms, IoT and renewable energy.

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Years building software
14+
Years leading teams
6+
Active users served
250k
Concurrent tenants
10k+
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Snowflake
  • Apache Spark
  • Kafka
  • Python
  • dbt
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • PyTorch
  • Airflow
  • GitHub Actions
  • Argo CD
  • AWS IoT
  • Databricks
  • OpenTelemetry

01 · Services

What I can do for you

Strategy through to hands-on delivery. I work alongside your team and leave you with systems, and skills, you own.

Cloud & AWS Architecture

Secure, cost-efficient cloud foundations designed to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

  • Landing zones & multi-account strategy
  • On-premise to cloud migration
  • Serverless & container platforms
  • FinOps & cost optimisation

AI Adoption & Strategy

From use-case discovery to production GenAI and ML, with guardrails, evaluation and governance built in.

DevOps & Platform Engineering

CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and observability so teams ship faster and safer.

Business Automation

Intelligent document processing, workflow orchestration and integrations that take out manual work.

Data Platforms & Warehousing

Snowflake data warehouse design, streaming pipelines, lakehouses and big data analytics.

Architecture Design & Review

Independent architecture reviews, technical due diligence and target-state designs with a clear roadmap.

Team Building & Fractional CTO

Hiring, team topology, engineering culture and mentoring. I build teams that can own the platform after I leave.

02 · Domain expertise

Where I've delivered

Deep, hands-on experience in domains where performance, reliability and data really matter.

Finance & Algorithmic Trading

Low-latency execution, backtesting infrastructure, market-data and real-time risk pipelines for trading desks and asset managers.

  • Low latency
  • Tick data
  • Risk
  • Compliance

AI in Business & Computer Vision

GenAI assistants, intelligent automation and edge computer vision, taken from proof of concept to monitored production.

  • GenAI & RAG
  • MLOps
  • Edge AI
  • Automation

Data Warehousing & Big Data

Snowflake warehouse design, dimensional modelling, streaming pipelines and petabyte-scale analytics with Spark.

  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • Spark
  • Kafka

IoT & Greenfield Energy

Connected-device platforms, SCADA integration and generation forecasting for solar and wind portfolios.

  • IoT Core
  • OPC-UA
  • Forecasting
  • Time series

04 · Approach

How an engagement works

Short feedback loops, transparent pricing and outcomes agreed up front.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Stakeholder interviews, current-state assessment and a clear view of the goals, constraints and risks.

  2. 02

    Design

    Target architecture, trade-off decisions and a phased roadmap tied to business value.

  3. 03

    Deliver

    Hands-on build with your engineers: infrastructure as code, automation and production-grade quality.

  4. 04

    Enable

    Documentation, knowledge transfer and coaching so your team runs and evolves it confidently.

05 · About

Payam Taheri · Technical Team Lead & Cloud Architect

Engineering leader. Hands-on architect.

I've been building high-performance systems in Python, Go and JavaScript for 14+ years, and leading cross-functional engineering teams for more than six. I architect and scale data-intensive, cloud-native platforms on AWS that serve tens of thousands of concurrent users.

I started out on payment reporting and trading algorithms in finance, moved into NLP and machine learning, and now lead the team behind an AI-powered customer analytics SaaS platform on AWS and Snowflake. Throughout, I've stayed close to the code while mentoring engineers and owning delivery end to end.

Based in
Muscat, Oman
Languages
English (professional) · Persian (native)
Education
MSc & BSc Engineering, University of Science and Technology

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        06 · Contact

        Have a cloud, data or AI challenge?

        Tell me where you are and where you want to be. I'll reply within one business day with honest next steps, even if that means I'm not the right fit.

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