About
Economics master's. Equity research writer. Solo AI founder.
I'm Morteza. I build production AI products end-to-end — backend, frontend, data pipelines, LLM workflows, infra. I currently live in Coquitlam, BC, and I'm looking for AI Adoption, AI Builder, AI Implementation, AI Enablement, and Agentic AI roles where I can bring that solo-builder lens into a team.
The path here
I trained as an economist (Master's, University of Tehran), and for several years before AI consumed my workflow I made my living analyzing financial systems. I published 243 equity research articles on Seeking Alpha covering shipping, energy, mining, REITs, banking, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals — each one integrating macroeconomic outlook, financial modeling, scenario analysis, and risk assessment.
When generative AI matured, I didn't pivot away from finance — I pivoted into building the AI that finance teams should have. That became Voltrisks: a production AI-powered macroeconomic risk intelligence SaaS I built solo over 13 months, end-to-end. Backend, frontend, data pipelines, LLM workflows, billing, observability, security — every layer.
Alongside Voltrisks I've shipped a portfolio of AI builds: an AI governance assessment platform mapping companies to NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and ISO/IEC 42001; a 3D AI-driven product placement game for an interview at Delta IBT; agentic n8n workflows automating real operational work; and Python pipelines that ship the same analysis to engineers and non-engineers in parallel.
How I think about AI builds
LLMs are a tool, not the architecture.
The hard part of a production AI system is everything around the model: the data pipeline, the validation rules, the governance checkpoints, the rollback paths. I treat the LLM as one component, not the system.
Governance is engineering.
Automated rule checks, auto-fix loops, director-review passes — that's how you keep an LLM pipeline from drifting in production, not a slide deck. I write the guidelines AND the code that enforces them.
Solo discipline scales to teams.
Shipping Voltrisks solo forced me to be ruthlessly clear about priorities, scope, and what 'done' means. Those habits make me a faster, calmer teammate — not a lone wolf.
Translate both ways.
My banking-software years were spent translating between engineers and end users. The same skill is the core of AI Adoption and Enablement work today.
Credentials
Master's in Economics
University of Tehran · 2023
Bachelor's in Economics
University of Tehran · 2018
Claude Code in Action
Anthropic · May 2026
Agentic AI Certificate
University of Waterloo · Expected July 2026
243 published equity research articles
Buy/hold/sell theses on Seeking Alpha (SM Investor) across shipping, energy, mining, REITs, banking, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals. Each article integrates macro outlook, financial modeling, scenario analysis, and risk assessment.
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