Mehdi Garakani

Mehdi Garakani has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries. Mehdi currently holds the position of VP of Product at MyDigipay since June 2023. Prior to this role, they worked as the Innovation Center Director at Middle East Bank (MEBank) from May 2021 to June 2023. Mehdi also co-founded Adotel Travel Technology and served as the Co-Founder & CPO from February 2019 to June 2020. Other notable roles include IT Portfolio Manager at Middle East Bank (MEBank) from January 2018 to May 2019, Founder & CEO at oostaa from January 2015 to September 2017, and various positions at Middle East Bank (MEBank) from 2012 to 2015, including Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Manager, Data Migration Lead, and Business Intelligence Consultant. Mehdi started their career as a DW/BI Developer at TOSAN Intelligent Data Miners Co. from March 2010 to December 2012.

Mehdi Garakani holds a Master's degree in Information Technology from the Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic, which they obtained from 2008 to 2010. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the University of Tehran from 2003 to 2008. In addition to their formal education, Mehdi also obtained certifications in ITIL® V3 Foundation from AXELOS Global Best Practice in July 2018, and in Java J2SE, J2EE Programming from ACM, Iran Chapter (specific dates not provided).