Mohammad Bayat
Founder, Software Engineer, and Leadership Facilitator
Last updated July 24, 2026
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Professional Profile
Founder, software engineer, and leadership facilitator with more than 15 years of experience building web, market, and quantitative software systems. Founded and continues to build K2Quant, combining software engineering, artificial intelligence, quantitative systems, technical operations, and company-building.
Professional work also includes organizational leadership, coaching, facilitation, and the design of group-learning programs. Current independent inquiry examines reflective practice, durable learning, leadership, and what happens when people move from supportive learning environments into contexts that do not reinforce the same ways of thinking and acting.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
Coaching and Professional Credentials
Master Coaching Certification
Professional Coaching Certification
Business Coaching Certification
Selected Professional Experience
K2 Group / K2Quant — Founder and Software Engineer
- Founded and continue to build quantitative, market-related, and artificial-intelligence-assisted software systems.
- Work across software architecture, front-end and back-end development, infrastructure, data analysis, technical operations, testing, and reliability.
- Lead technical and organizational decisions, contributor coordination, and the development of sustainable operating structures.
Radin Bourse — Full-Stack Developer
- Develop test infrastructure, contract and end-to-end tests, and maintainable TypeScript and Angular application code.
- Collaborate with Java back-end developers on shared design principles, architecture, accessibility, and delivery quality.
Eghtesad Bidar Securities — Full-Stack Developer
- Built real-time market-data processing and technical-analysis charting for an online trading platform.
- Expanded automated test coverage and contributed to prototyping, interface testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
- Trained team members in object-oriented design and reusable application structure.
Alibaba Travels Co. — Full-Stack Developer
- Worked across the development lifecycle of a single-page booking back-office application.
- Built a Node.js template compiler that reduced a multi-day manual process to under an hour.
- Contributed to application design, debugging, performance, maintainability, and user experience.
Tadbir Pardaz IT Group Ltd. — Developer
Developed and designed single-page interfaces for capital-market products, with responsibility for implementation, maintenance, and UI/UX work.
Independent Software Project — Full-Stack Developer
Built JavaScript libraries for stock-market visualization, interactive charting, SVG and Canvas drawing tools, DOM and event utilities, and functional reactive data flows.
Leadership and Facilitation Experience
Leadership, Life, and Business Coach
- Completed more than 2,000 hours of direct individual, group, and organizational coaching, excluding teaching, leadership facilitation, and program delivery.
- Work with individual contributors, managers, teams, and business leaders on listening, feedback, responsibility, decision-making, relationships, and action.
- Maintain confidentiality and keep client experience separate from public research claims.
Leadership Facilitator
Work with the organization on leadership practice, employee well-being, team coordination, organizational communication, and sales strategy.
Organizational Leadership and Facilitation
Facilitate leadership and coordination work, examine recurring operating problems, and develop structures for shared responsibility, communication, and decision-making.
Mastery for Life — Program Designer and Facilitator
Design and facilitate a recurring Persian-language program concerned with language, identity, worldview, responsibility, relationships, reflection, and human change.
Selected Projects
K2Quant
Company-building and technical work around quantitative systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, agent-based workflows, and the operation of a technical organization.
Vocora
An open-source research-and-building project that turns questions about vocabulary learning, memory, retrieval, feedback, motivation, and measurement into working software.
Learning Circle
A practice-based field project about independent learning, peer teaching, group coordination, and what may continue after the facilitator withdraws.
FamilyLink
A family-support and social-impact initiative led for approximately ten years. The project is currently paused, and its public record separates services delivered from outcomes that were not consistently measured.
Selected Writing and Research-Related Work
The work in this section is independent and practice-based. It is distinct from professional employment and is not presented as peer-reviewed academic publication; no peer-reviewed academic publications are claimed at present.
- Research focus: Research Profile — reflective practice, durable learning, changing contexts, leadership, and group coordination.
- Essay: What Remains When the Learning Space Disappears? — a synthesis of published scholarship and bounded professional observation.
- Research Note: Can the Learner Carry the Context? — an inquiry into whether reflective learning remains available across changing settings.
- Research Note: Commitment, Context, and Learning — a field-based examination of commitment and learning in project-based leadership education.
- Technical Essay: Designing Large Agent Skills as Deterministic, Phase-Oriented Systems — an architecture for reliable, resumable agent workflows.
- Leadership Essay: When the Question Changes, the Organization Changes — a practice-based account of leadership inquiry and organizational possibility.
Technical Skills
- Programming: C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#
- Front end: Angular, RxJS, responsive web interfaces, SVG, Canvas
- Back end and data: Node.js, SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, WebSocket systems
- Testing and delivery: Unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing; Jasmine, Cypress, Cucumber; CI/CD
- Systems: Quantitative and market systems, software architecture, server operations, technical indicators, AI-assisted and agent-based workflows
Languages
- Persian — Native
- English — Working proficiency
Contact
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: www.okbayat.com
- GitHub: github.com/OkBayat
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/okbayat
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