Biography

Farrokh Rostami Kia is currently a technical designer at Gensler’s San Francisco office. He graduated from the University of New Mexico, with Master of Architecture degree. His background working in different countries and with different cultures has given him an open-minded approach to problem-solving and has taught him to be both effective and efficient in his work.

resumé
education
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA - Master of Architecture
2015 - 2018
3.5 years program with 3.96 GPA - Recipient of Alpha Rho Chi Medal
Anadolu University, Ankara, Turkey - Master of Science
2010 - 2013
2.5 yrs Construction Engineering and Management Program with 3.6 GPA - Developed VIBSIM (Visual Blind Spot Simulation Model)
Urmia State University, Urmia, Iran - Bachelor of Science
2005 - 2009
Mine studies and mine excavation methods in general - Chair member of the Urmia Mine Society
employment
FNEL
2019 - 2022
CEO, Product Manager, and UI/UX Designer
  • Sole developer of both production and development versions of FNEL Server and Web platform
  • Improved product's online users list efficiency using hash table
  • Improved web platform's graphical load-up time using sass
  • Developed colliding schedules checker algorithm for appointments where appointments can be checked regardless of their timezone and fully scalable
  • Developed a web application to help stylist manage their working hours free of time zone complexities
  • Integrated JSWT system with the web application for users' session control and termination
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) using NextJS server-side rendering methods.
  • Establishing Deep Link between web and iOS platforms
Gensler
2018 - 2022
Technical Architectural Designer
  • Design Technology Leader of San Francisco Community Flex Studio
  • Recipient of GDEA 2021 as part of SFO Terminal 1 Team
  • Implementation of python in grasshopper and dynamo plugin development
UNM School of Architecture & Planning
2015 - 2018
Project Assistant
  • UNM school of architecture (UNMSAAP) website content management
  • UNMSAAP scholarships online application development and data processing
Freelance Activities
2003 - 2006
FrontEnd Developer & UI/UX designer
  • developed various personal and organizational websites using html, css and wordpress
Skills
Programming Related
HTML5expert
CSS3advance
SCSSintermediate
JavaScriptadvance
NodeJS & Expressintermediate
NextJs & Reactadvance
Pythonintermediate
MongoDBintermediate
MySQLintermediate
Djangobeginner
Flaskbeginner
Gitintermediate
Tailwindadvance
Others
Adobe XDadvance
3Ds Maxexpert
V-rayexpert
ARadvance
VRadvance
Revitadvance
Grasshopper & Dynamointermediate
AutoCADadvance
Sketch Upintermediate
Photoshopexpert
illustratoradvance
Aftereffectsintermediate
LANGUAGES
  • English (fluent)
  • Persian (Mother Tongue)
  • Turkish (fluent)
  • Arabic (beginner)
My Projects
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Fnel, online fashion service
project fnel was my first experience as a startup founder where I had a chance to take control of different side of it. I was in charge with managing, UI designing, backend, and frontend development of this project. Due to its startup nature we weren't bind to any legacy technologies which help the project taking advantage of latest available frameworks and packages.
Role:
  • Project Manager
  • FullStack Developer
  • UI/UX Designer
Used stack:
  • NodeJS
  • NextJS
  • MongoDB
  • HTML5
  • SASS
  • Stripe
  • Firebase
  • NginX
  • redis
  • mjml
  • docker
  • sendGrid
  • Socket.IO
  • Twilio
  • Cloudinary
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