Work

The work below spans ADABTEK client engagements and selected professional experience of founder Niakam Kazemi, each case study labeled accordingly.

Broadspan / CAST.ERA / EdgeBeam Wireless

Professional Experience | Sinclair Broadcast Group / CAST.ERA | 2023–2026

Context / Challenge

Broadcasters held valuable nationwide spectrum and infrastructure but no practical way to turn it into a commercial data-delivery business. Doing so required a platform capable of coordinating cloud services, broadcast networks, broadband systems, customer applications, and edge devices — a system with no established industry precedent.

Role & Scope

Joined Sinclair Broadcast Group as Principal Product & Technical Architect to define the platform, then moved into the Global CTO role at CAST.ERA as the initiative became a standalone commercial platform.

What Was Done

Defined the product architecture, service boundaries, APIs, integration patterns, and deployment model for a cloud-native, distributed datacasting platform. Led the engineering organization through architecture, build, and commercial rollout, and represented the platform in industry forums, including a technical paper presented at NAB 2024.

Complexity

Coordinating a system spanning cloud, broadcast, broadband, and edge-device domains, with cross-functional and multi-vendor engineering teams across the U.S. and Asia — building an architecture with no direct precedent to draw from.

Outcome / Impact

Platform adoption expanded across 30+ U.S. markets. The work contributed to the formation of EdgeBeam Wireless, an independently backed broadcast-spectrum data company.

HealthEdge / Burgess Group

ADABTEK Client Engagement | HealthEdge / Burgess Group | 2018–2021

Context / Challenge

A mission-critical, multi-tenant SaaS platform handling medical claims adjudication, reimbursement, and pricing needed architectural improvements to meet growing performance and scale demands — without disrupting a system already in live client use.

Role & Scope

Senior Consulting Architect.

What Was Done

Designed core backend services, pricing engines, and configuration-driven processing modules supporting complex healthcare rules, and led re-architecture initiatives targeting throughput and scalability. Served as the technical escalation point for complex production issues and root-cause analysis.

Complexity

Translating regulatory-driven business rules into scalable system design, on a live production system with real client dependency, in close coordination with product leadership and healthcare subject-matter experts.

Outcome / Impact

Re-architecture work improved system performance, throughput, and scalability by approximately 30%.

Ciena

Professional Experience | Ciena | 1997–2001

Context / Challenge

Manufacturing operations supporting more than $1B in annual revenue needed better control systems, yield optimization, and defect analytics — visibility manufacturing floors didn't yet have.

Role & Scope

Engineering R&D Lead, then Manufacturing Control Systems Team Lead.

What Was Done

Architected and developed distributed manufacturing-control, test-automation, defect-management, and analytics systems, including adaptive systems designed to improve first-pass yield and reduce troubleshooting time.

Complexity

Distributed systems operating at production floor scale, early large-scale data analytics pipelines built before such tooling was standard, and multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

Outcome / Impact

Systems supported operations generating more than $1B in annual revenue and contributed to four U.S. patents in manufacturing intelligence and quality systems.

FINRA

ADABTEK Client Engagement | FINRA | 2012–2017

Context / Challenge

A public-facing financial dispute-resolution platform needed to serve individuals, firms, and regulators securely, while integrating with enterprise identity and document systems inside a highly regulated environment.

Role & Scope

Senior Consulting Architect.

What Was Done

Architected and delivered a multi-tier, public-facing system, designed service-oriented integrations with SSO and document management, and led architectural strategy for mobile enablement and early cloud migration.

Complexity

Multi-year development and enhancement cycles under regulatory constraints, integration across presentation, service, and data layers, and maintaining architectural integrity as requirements evolved.

Outcome / Impact

A secure, regulator-facing platform maintained in production use by individuals, firms, and regulators across multiple years of change.

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

ADABTEK Client Engagement | Federal Reserve Board of Governors | 2010–2012

Context / Challenge

Public-facing systems providing access to complex economic datasets ran on legacy technology that limited how the data could be delivered and consumed externally.

Role & Scope

Senior Consulting Architect.

What Was Done

Led modernization of public-facing systems, converting legacy applications to modern platforms, and architected data access and download systems for external consumption of economic datasets.

Complexity

Replacing legacy public infrastructure without disrupting public access, within a high-visibility, high-trust institutional environment.

Outcome / Impact

A modern data-access platform enabling public consumption of complex economic datasets, delivered end to end from architecture through production deployment.

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