hi, i'm mo.
i am a serial founding engineer and i build products from zero to production. i work with infrastructure, ai pipelines, agent harnesses, the full stack. working on some exciting stuff right now. i built Retellio aka Verlo and shipped nasdaq's first genai product to 2,500+ financial institutions.
currently based in toronto, making things that work and occasionally look nice. i write about stuff here
experience
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Founding Engineer at VerloJan 2026 – Aug 2026
building an ai-powered crm for wealth management. own the full stack: infrastructure, llm pipelines, integrations with schwab, fidelity, and meeting platforms. soc 2 certified.
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Founding Engineer at RetellioJul 2024 – Dec 2025
built the entire platform from scratch: aws infrastructure, llm/rag pipelines, microservices, and integrations with salesforce, hubspot, gong. 99.9% uptime, shipping daily.
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Senior Software Developer at NasdaqJan 2024 – Jul 2024
helped build nasdaq's first genai product, an entity research copilot. owned retrieval and evaluation modules, deployed on aws/terraform. now used by 2,000+ financial institutions.
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Software Developer at VerafinJan 2022 – Jan 2024
started as intern, promoted twice. built fraud detection agents and ml pipelines in java. owned features from design to production, handled on-call for critical systems.
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Web Developer at Memorial UniversityJan 2020 – Jan 2022
redesigned the student portal serving 15k+ users. built auth, scheduling integrations, and accessible ui from the ground up.
education
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Computer Science at Memorial University2019 – 2023
st. john's, newfoundland. studied algorithms, systems, and ai. worked part-time as a developer throughout.
skills
languages: python, typescript, go, swift
infrastructure: aws, docker, kubernetes, terraform
interests: llms, distributed systems, good ux
mostly i build by directing ai now, claude code usually. there's more craft to working this way than it looks.
contact
me@mohammad.page
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About Mohammad Jafari
Mohammad Jafari is a software engineer based in Toronto, Canada. He is currently the founding engineer at Verlo, an AI-powered CRM for wealth management. Previously, Mohammad was the founding engineer at Retellio, where he built the entire platform from scratch. Before that, he was a senior software developer at Nasdaq, where he helped build their first generative AI product, now used by over 2,000 financial institutions. He also worked at Verafin building fraud detection systems. Mohammad studied Computer Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland.