About
Where people and code meet
My experience, education and publications, and the skills behind them. My name is also written Neda Taghizadeh Serajeh.
Experience
Dec 2025 – now
Front-end Developer (Student Research Assistant)
ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences · Bonn, Germany
- Developed the terminology-mapping widgets from first version to full feature set: both directions, filters, detail views.
- Built the EntityListWidget for browsing ontology classes, properties and individuals, with search and pagination.
- Restructured widgets into separate data and presentation layers, so apps that already have the data can reuse the UI.
- Fixed rendering, styling and type bugs, redesigned the Next.js demo and kept Storybook docs up to date.
- Extending the plain JavaScript package so every widget also works without React.
Apr 2025 – Aug 2025
Junior Technical Consultant (Working Student)
Serity · Bonn, Germany
- Supported ServiceNow implementations in security operations and compliance for international enterprise clients.
- Turned client requirements into user stories and project documentation for the consultant team.
- Helped prepare and deliver IT workshops for clients.
Nov 2022 – May 2023
Front-end Developer
Digikala · Tehran, Iran
- Worked on the Seller Center of Iran’s largest online retailer (40M+ monthly users).
- Helped migrate the seller panel from Twig to React, rewriting legacy pages as reusable React/TypeScript components.
- Built new seller-panel features as part of the migration.
Mar 2022 – Sep 2022
Software Engineer Intern and UI/UX Designer
AYOT · Tehran, Iran
- Designed UI screens in Figma and implemented them in React for AYOT’s smart-home platform.
- Designed the DALL-E artist-commission platform for desktop and mobile, and built it in React with my colleagues.
Leadership and volunteering
Nov 2021 –
Director
CE Student Association, Sharif University of Technology · Tehran, Iran
- Coordinator and presenter at Shenasa, a scientific event on AI, neuroscience and cognitive science.
Dec 2019 – Jan 2020
Staff
ICPC Asia Regional Contest, Tehran site · Tehran, Iran
- Staff at the 43rd International Collegiate Programming Contest, 20th Asian Regional Contest in Iran.
Education
M.Sc. Computer Science
B.Sc. Computer Engineering
Skills, with where I used them
| Skill | Where |
|---|---|
| React | ZB MED widgets, Digikala Seller Center, AYOT |
| TypeScript | ZB MED widgets, Digikala Seller Center |
| JavaScript, HTML, CSS | Every project; plain JS package at ZB MED |
| Storybook | Widget docs and shareable stories at ZB MED |
| Elastic UI | Component library behind the ZB MED widgets |
| Next.js | Redesigned the library’s demo app |
| REST APIs | Terminology and mapping APIs in the widgets |
| Figma | DALL-E platform, AYOT smart-home screens |
| User stories and requirements | Client work at Serity |
| Workshops and presenting | Serity client workshops, Shenasa |
| ServiceNow | Certified System Administrator; Serity projects |
| Python | NLP course projects and research |
| Git and code review | Branches and reviewed pull requests at ZB MED |
Languages
- Persian
- Native
- English
- C1 (IELTS 7.5)
- German
- B1 (self-assessed)
Certificates
- ServiceNow Certified System Administrator
- ServiceNow, Apr 2025
- IELTS Academic 7.5 (C1)
- IELTS, Feb 2024
Outside work
Outside work I make relief panels, dotwork portraits and modern Persian calligraphy. It’s where my eye for composition comes from. I also snowboard and play board games.