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Municipal & Smart City 2014 - 2018

Mashhad Municipality

Systems Engineer · Smart City Platform

Mashhad, Iran

14 Connected Departments
30+ VPN Field Offices
Unified Citizen Portal

Overview

Engineered the digital services backbone for Mashhad — Iran's second-largest city — unifying citizen-facing portals, inter-department workflows, and field-office connectivity into a single municipal technology platform.

Role Summary

Built municipal digital infrastructure including citizen service portals, cross-department workflow automation, GIS-linked urban service requests, and site-to-site VPN connectivity for 30+ field offices.

Responsibilities

  • Developed unified citizen portal for permits, complaints, and municipal payments
  • Built workflow engine connecting 14 municipal departments
  • Integrated GIS-linked service request routing for urban infrastructure issues
  • Deployed site-to-site VPN mesh for 30+ remote field offices
  • Maintained PHP/Python backend services and Nginx reverse proxy layer

Key Achievements

  • Consolidated 6 legacy citizen portals into one unified entry point
  • Cut inter-department request routing time from days to hours
  • Enabled real-time GIS tracking for urban service request resolution
  • Achieved 99% VPN uptime across all connected field offices

Technologies & Tools

PHP Python MySQL Nginx GIS VPN Workflow Engine