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Sagheb Hosseinpour

AI/ML engineer based in Oxfordshire. MSc Computer Engineering (Distinction) from Essex; roughly thirteen years of technical practice across networks, infrastructure, and applied AI. Native Farsi; UK indefinite leave. Open to roles

۰۱About

Engineering since 2010, in the UK since 2023

Iranian-British engineer, based in Oxfordshire. Roughly thirteen years across networks, municipal IT, web platforms, and applied AI — first in Mashhad, now in the UK. Two MSc degrees: Artificial Intelligence from Imam Reza International University (2015), and Computer Engineering with Distinction from the University of Essex (2024).

In Iran I spent five-and-a-half years as Approval Implementation Expert at Mashhad Municipality, designing and managing the regulatory and approvals databases behind a complex public-administration estate. Earlier roles at the municipality covered its website and information-base programme, then media and public relations; before that, two years in private-sector networks and systems administration.

In parallel I lectured in Computer Engineering for nearly a decade — including the Artificial Intelligence module to multiple cohorts from 2015 through 2020 at the Mashhad Higher Education Institute, alongside teaching at two other institutions and long-running private tutoring. I came to the UK in 2023 for the Essex MSc, took it with Distinction, and supported the AI and computer-engineering modules at Essex as a Graduate Laboratory Assistant during my final year. I now hold indefinite leave to remain.

My current technical focus is on retrieval-augmented systems and small-model fine-tuning, with a particular interest in multilingual NLP — Persian is my first language and rarely a first-class citizen in English-built stacks. Open to UK roles, remote or hybrid.

Reach me on LinkedIn  ·  en.sagheb@yahoo.com

۰۲Experience

Roles, teaching, and education

As laid out on the CV, most recent first.

Roles

  1. May – Dec 20248 months · part-time

    Graduate Laboratory Assistant

    University of Essex, UK

    Supporting AI and computer-engineering laboratory modules; one-to-one technical problem-solving with students; encouraging independent reasoning in structured learning environments.

  2. 2018 – 20235 years 9 months

    Approval Implementation Expert

    Mashhad Municipality, Iran

    Supervising implementation of Islamic City Council approvals and large-scale municipal operational plans; designing structured databases for reporting and decision-making; running the drafting and bill-management system; coordinating cross-departmental ISO-audit statistics.

  3. 2015 – 20172 years 4 months

    Site & Public Relations Expert

    Mashhad Municipality, Iran

    Designing and supervising specialised municipal websites and information bases across the complex; programming Android applications supporting public services; managing media communications, drafting speeches, coordinating journalist interviews with senior managers.

  4. 2012 – 20152 years 11 months

    Website Expert

    Mashhad Municipality, Iran

    Designing and compiling the general framework and content of municipal information bases; supervising implementation; managing feedback-driven discovery of new information requirements across municipal units; coordinating with network-security experts on database protection.

  5. 2011 – 20121 year 1 month

    Network Technical Expert

    Faraniaz Asr Co., Iran

    Launching software and hardware to create networks and improve performance; user-account management and access-level design; network security; daily operations and scheduled maintenance planning.

  6. 2010 – 20111 year 1 month

    Technical Expert

    Poolad Eskan Shargh Co., Iran

    Maintaining computer networks and related systems; firewall, antivirus, backup, and data-security management; installing and configuring routers, switches, load balancers, VPNs, WAN accelerators, proxy servers.

Teaching

  1. 2014 – 20239 years 8 months · part-time

    University Lecturer

    Mashhad Higher Education Institute, Iran

    Multi-discipline computer-engineering teaching. AI (multiple cohorts 2015–2020), web programming, database systems, computer networks and security, operating systems, algorithm design, IT management, e-business, project management.

  2. 2012 – 20142 years · part-time

    Lecturer

    Asrar Higher Education Institute, Iran

    Specialised computer-science courses for undergraduate students.

  3. 2010 – 20111 year · part-time

    Lecturer

    Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, Iran

    Machine language and systems, systems programming, theory of languages and machines, computer architecture, programming basics.

  4. 2010 – 202313 years 9 months · part-time

    Private Tutor

    Independent, Iran

    Long-running private tutoring in computer science and IT subjects.

Education

  1. 2023 – 2024

    MSc Computer Engineering — Distinction

    University of Essex, UK

  2. 2013 – 2015

    MSc Artificial Intelligence

    Imam Reza International University, Iran

  3. 2008 – 2012

    BSc Computer Engineering (Software)

    Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, Iran