Founder & CEO, Shouka AI

MohammadReza
Mohammadzade

Seven-plus years turning research-grade AI into production systems that hold up under load — Agentic RAG, computer vision, and MLOps infrastructure built for enterprises that can't afford to get it wrong.

DATA MODEL SERVE IMPACT
how I take AI from research to results
7+ years in production AI · Teams up to 8 engineers · Tehran, Iran
Areas of Focus

Core expertise

Four disciplines, one operating principle: AI that survives contact with production.

[ LLM / RAG ]

Enterprise Agentic AI & LLMs

Agentic RAG architectures, prompt engineering, and vector-native retrieval (QDrant, FAISS, Milvus, Neo4j) built for accuracy and reliability at enterprise scale — not demo scale.

[ MLOPS ]

Scalable Production Infrastructure

Standardized deployment through KServe, RayServe, vLLM, Triton, Docker, and MLFlow — the operational backbone that turns experiments into dependable systems.

[ VISION ]

Vision & Multimodal Intelligence

OCR, detection and tracking, semantic segmentation, super-resolution, and pose estimation — engineered to hold up in low-quality, real-world conditions.

[ LEADERSHIP ]

AI Leadership at Scale

Building and mentoring high-performing AI teams, setting technical standards, and keeping engineering execution tied to business strategy.

Measured, Not Claimed

Executive impact

Every figure below is tied to a shipped system, not a slide.

70%
Faster executive strategic decision-making through a company-wide AI decision-support platform.
60%
Reduction in AI model deployment time after standardizing MLOps across an 8-person team.
0.2%
Hallucination rate on a custom benchmark, from a locally served Agentic RAG pipeline.
65%
Less manual data-labeling effort through a production OCR extraction pipeline.
90%
Reduction in manual effort from automated, real-time, multi-source data pipelines.
Career Trajectory

Journey & key milestones

From computer vision specialist to enterprise AI founder — six years of leading teams that shipped.

2024 — Present
Founder & CEO
Shouka AI · Tehran, Iran
  • Leading strategy and technical direction, building on a decade of hands-on production AI experience.
May 2026 — Present
AI Team Lead
Tasmim Nivan Houshmand · Tehran, Iran
  • Directed a 7-member cross-functional team delivering a production-grade AI decision-support platform.
  • Accelerated executive strategic decision-making by up to 70%.
Feb 2025 — Mar 2026
AI Team Lead
Payesh Armaghan Yaran · Tehran, Iran
  • Led an 8-person AI team, cutting model deployment time by 60% through standardized MLOps.
  • Architected an Agentic RAG pipeline (LlamaIndex + Milvus) that cut hallucinations to 0.2%.
  • Introduced AI-powered code-review and quality-scoring agents across the engineering organization.
Sep 2023 — Feb 2025
ML Engineer
Payesh Armaghan Yaran · Tehran, Iran
  • Built a face-recognition system with a 4% accuracy gain on under-represented demographics.
  • Delivered an embedded license-plate recognition system for traffic analytics.
  • Shipped an OCR pipeline reducing manual labeling effort by 65%.
Oct 2022 — Sep 2023
AI Team Lead & Data Scientist
Sharif Hamrah Pazhohan · Tehran, Iran
  • Orchestrated a visual programming platform for AI model composition, cutting prototyping time by 45%.
  • Built time-series trajectory models, improving vehicle-movement prediction accuracy by 12%.
  • Automated real-time ingestion pipelines, reducing manual effort by 90%.
Nov 2018 — Dec 2019
Computer Vision & Text Analysis Specialist
Malek Ashtar University · Tehran, Iran
  • Developed deep networks for human-pose estimation and Persian-language semantic-similarity models.
  • Foundational research work bridging academic rigor and applied AI.
Peer-Reviewed Work

Research & publications

A background in mechatronics and AI/robotics that shapes a systems-first approach to engineering.

2021
Modified IWO Algorithm for Topological Optimum Synthesis of the Displacement Amplifying Compliant Mechanism
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
2021
Persian Text Similarity using Embedding Space Matching and Deep Learning
4th National Conference on New Technologies in Electrical and Computer Engineering
M.Sc., Computer Engineering — AI & Robotics
Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran
2018 — 2021
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering — Mechatronics
Shahroud University of Technology, Shahroud
2014 — 2018
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