0'Small Size League · live
I architect AI-driven platforms and scalable digital products.
CTO at Neuroject, building the alignment layer for construction enterprises. Building since 2007: robots, IoT and firmware, then web, mobile and AI platforms.
From 2009 to 2011 I built Small Size League soccer robots at the University of Tabriz: a team of five fully autonomous robots playing a real match. This is that game, simulated and playing live.
10'Line-up
I started building websites as a freelancer in 2007, studied electrical engineering with a focus on control systems, and spent my university years building robots, including a 1st place at RoboCup IranOpen 2010.
Since then I’ve built for an electronics and IoT company, a grocery marketplace, an edtech company and a construction-tech company. Today I’m CTO at Neuroject, leading the platform that connects BIM, schedules, budgets and risks for construction enterprises, and bringing AI into it.
Along the way I’ve shipped apps to the App Store and Google Play, hardware that’s still logging data after 15 years, and fixes to open source projects like Gatsby and DefinitelyTyped.
Each robot wears a team dot and four pink or green markers: the pattern the cameras use to tell robots apart.
25'Timeline
Clubs above the line, roots below it. Every change of club is a substitution.
40'Playbook
Platforms in production, with links to the live sites and the stores.
Play 01The alignment layer for construction enterprises: one multi-tenant platform for BIM models, WBS, quantity take-off, bills of quantities, tenders, and 4D progress reports, now with AI for natural-language questions and early risk warnings. I lead it as CTO.
Play 02AI-assisted R&D tax credit claims for the UK, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa. I work across the FastAPI and pgvector API, the SvelteKit app, and the TypeScript client SDK, and added its security gates: secret scanning, Semgrep, and Trivy on every pull request.
Play 03Attendance monitoring live at universities in the UK and US. I wrote the firmware for the ESP32 card readers (NFC, RFID, BLE, over-the-air updates) and the nRF52840 Bluetooth beacons, and built the iOS and Android app, the staff dashboard, and a Canvas LTI app. At a single university, it has more than 200 devices online, covers over 100 classrooms and 10,000 classes, and has received over 3 million records in the past two years.
Play 04GSM weather stations that take several sensors each and send their logs home. The fleet has been online for over 15 years: more than 50 active stations and over half a billion records.
Play 05An LMS with live exam proctoring and Azure Face identity checks. I built the user dashboard, an Office add-in that brings live polls and word clouds into PowerPoint and Word, and the product website.
A React Native app on both stores that helps students starting university get to know their course, campus, city, and career options.
Expo · React Native · TypeScripteducation.guide ↗App Store ↗Google Play ↗Online tutoring for every child: diagnostic tests, courses, quizzes, and 1-to-1 lessons over live video. I built the dashboard and the website.
Next.js · MUI · VideoSDK · Uppyschool.how ↗An electronic pressure and flow controller: embedded hardware and firmware that hold pressure and flow at their setpoints. In production.
Hardware · Firmware · Process controlA compact PLC controller built on STM microcontrollers: the board and firmware for automation on a small footprint. In production.
STM · Firmware · PLCAn opt-in flag I added to react-query-kit (31k weekly downloads) so a forgotten query argument fails at compile time instead of at runtime.
TypeScript · React QueryCode ↗Removed a deprecated uuid version from gatsby-cli and gatsby-plugin-sharp that could fall back to Math.random() and was flagged on every Gatsby install.
Node.js · SecurityCode ↗Device telemetry on plain shared PHP hosting: ingest, rollups, alarms with hysteresis, OTA firmware, and reports. No Composer, npm, or build step.
PHP 8 · Vanilla JS · OpenAPIA native macOS app that finds duplicate and look-alike photos by how they look. Fully offline, and nothing is ever deleted.
Swift · SwiftUI · VisionReads matrix keypads as a FreeRTOS task, with built-in debouncing and configurable layouts and pin maps. Portable across microcontrollers.
C · FreeRTOSCode ↗Fixed persisted data being wiped when the app was opened in a second tab, in a store used 82k times a week.
TypeScriptCode ↗The product website for Learning Kit, built for 0&1.
Next.js · AWS Amplifylearningkit.com ↗The product website for Exam Kit, an online exam monitoring system by 0&1.
Nuxt · Tailwind CSSexamkit.com ↗HTHalf-time
Half-time, so the robot comes apart. A Small Size robot packs a microcontroller, a radio, four motors, a kicker and a dribbler into 180 mm. I spent my university years building robots like this one; since then the hardware has gone into production.
The team dot and four ID markers on top, read by the cameras above the field.
A microcontroller and motor drivers close the wheel-speed loops.
Takes its commands from the AI computer beside the field.
A LiPo pack for the motors and the kicker.
Capacitors charged to high voltage fire a solenoid plunger into the ball.
Four omni-wheels to drive in any direction while turning, and a spinning bar that holds the ball with backspin.
Several sensors per station, with logs sent home over GSM.
Embedded hardware and firmware that hold pressure and flow at their setpoints.
Built on STM microcontrollers, for automation on a small footprint.
NFC, RFID, BLE and over-the-air updates. Wireless, with a battery that lasts about 16 months.
Bluetooth proximity check-in, updated over the air with DFU.
60'VAR
Five incidents in other people's code, reviewed and patched upstream, in packages downloaded more than 300k times a week.
★ 56k · 163k downloads a week
★ 383 · 82k downloads a week
★ 486 · 31k downloads a week
★ 51k · 22k downloads a week
★ 119 · 5.4k downloads a week
75'Trophies
Robotics, control systems and a little nanoelectronics, before the software took over.
University of Tabriz. Thesis: a two-wheel self-balancing robot with real-time fuzzy control.
A team of five fully autonomous robots playing a real match.
Deminer Technical Challenge.
Mobile Robotics.
University of Tabriz. Thesis: plasmonic wave sources based on multilayer structures.
Design, engineering and optimization of a grid-tie multicell inverter for energy storage.
Read it on arXiv ↗90'Transfer
Write about a platform, a device or a team that needs building.
moe@babazadeh.dev