Experience
From CFD solvers to fire-safe buildings.
- 2025 — now Current
Fire Safety Engineer
Arup · Australia
- Performance-based fire safety strategies for complex developments.
- Fire & smoke modelling with FDS and evacuation modelling with Pathfinder.
- Multidisciplinary coordination with stakeholders and fire authorities.
- 2022 — 2025
Fire Safety Engineer & CFD Modelling
Lote Consulting · Australia
- Performance-based solutions across NSW, ACT and VIC.
- DtS assessments and alternative solutions; FERs, FEBQs, FECDRs, FSURs, FSUBs and CAs.
- Tenability, egress and ventilation modelling with FDS & Pathfinder (incl. Spec 43).
- Hazard and consequence modelling; FBIM access strategies.
- Projects: AirTrunk data centres, Tomago Aluminium, Sanitarium, Cleanaway, Snowy bushfire infrastructure, BESS developments.
- 2018 — 2020
Fluid Dynamics Engineer
Kohandezh Engineering · Iran
- Proprietary CFD solver development.
- Heat-exchanger and thermal-equipment optimisation.
- 3D turbulent adjoint optimisation framework.
- Rotating-machinery failure analysis.
- 2017 — 2018
Assistant Fluid Dynamics Engineer
Binasan Yekodo · Iran
- VAWT aerodynamics research.
- High-order simulation methods.
- Custom fluid–structure interaction (FSI) solver.
- GPU/CPU parallelisation.
Skills matrix
What I bring to the work.
Fire Safety
- Performance-based design
- FDS
- Pathfinder
- DtS & alternative solutions
- Tenability & egress
CFD
- Solver development
- High-order methods
- Turbulence
- Lattice Boltzmann
- Adjoint optimisation
Hazard & Consequence
- Hazard modelling
- Consequence analysis
- Ventilation
- BESS
- FBIM access
Technical Reporting
- FERs
- FEBQs
- FSURs / FSUBs
- CAs
- Authority coordination
Programming
- Python
- MATLAB
- Fortran
- C++
- GPU / CPU parallelisation
Teaching
- Lecturing
- Teaching assistance
- CFD instruction
- Programming instruction