Mohammad Bayat
Founder, Software Engineer, and Systems Builder with more than 15 years of experience building web, market, quantitative, and organizational systems.
My practice-based inquiry focuses on human learning, reflective practice, leadership, and durable change. My current work is centered on K2Quant and Human Transformation, including Learning Circle, facilitated programs, leadership and organizational practice, and Vocora. My longer project history also includes FamilyLink, a family-support initiative that is currently paused.
For a concise professional and academic-facing document, see the Curriculum Vitae.
Table of contents
Selected Practice-Based Inquiry and Projects
Human Transformation
Practice-Based Inquiry
An inquiry grounded in practice and concerned with human learning, language, identity, context, performance, leadership, group coordination, and durable change.
The published records from this work:
- distinguish published evidence, direct observation, participant self-report, interpretation, and hypothesis;
- document field projects and facilitated programs without presenting them as controlled research;
- draw on reviewed work across learning science, cognitive science, philosophy, leadership, and organizational research;
- state privacy, consent, and evidence standards for public field records;
- connect questions from software, company-building, coaching, groups, and education.
This work is independent and is not presented as an academic affiliation, clinical program, or peer-reviewed research institution.
Program overview · Selected research-related work
Learning Circle — Field Project Designer and Facilitator
Practice-based record of programming, peer learning, and group coordination
Learning Circle began as a programming activity with children and became a bounded, practice-based field record about independent learning and group coordination.
- Used Code.org and programming as a medium for learning how to learn.
- Designed early sessions around peer support, learner ownership, and teaching others.
- Gradually transferred session coordination to the children and withdrew from regular attendance.
- Continued observing the group’s self-coordination, progress, peer teaching, and requests for occasional guidance.
- Documented alternative explanations, facilitator bias, pre-existing relationships, privacy constraints, and the absence of a control group or standardized outcome.
- Established a generalized, group-level public record that excludes exact ages, group size, dates, location, school details, relationships to the facilitator, identifiable work products, and individual learning histories.
The current record is a practice-based field observation, not a causal experiment or a claim of permanent transformation.
Mastery for Life — Program Designer and Facilitator
2020 – Present
A recurring facilitated program in Persian concerned with language, identity, worldview, responsibility, relationships, and the possibility of human change.
- Facilitated cohorts ranging from small groups to larger groups and, in some instances, several hundred participants.
- Used live dialogue, individual and group practice, feedback, reflection, and follow-up.
- Collected facilitator observations and participant accounts across multiple cohorts.
- Published a program record that separates source lineage, program design, participant self-report, observed behavior, and claims of efficacy.
- Documented current limitations, including the absence of standardized baseline, comparison group, longitudinal outcome, and independent evaluation.
- Removed expired registration language from the permanent research-facing record.
FamilyLink
Founder and Project Lead
Approximately ten years of work — Paused in 2026
FamilyLink was a family-support and social-impact initiative focused on reducing avoidable family separation when material hardship and lack of opportunity were major parts of the problem.
- Coordinated practical support, caregiver capacity-building, and livelihood-related efforts.
- Used existing organizational capabilities and external collaboration to operate the project over approximately a decade.
- Reached a substantial number of children and caregivers according to internal records and current recollection; unaudited totals, identities, locations, and case histories are omitted from the public record.
- Paused the project when its principal source of support contracted and the project lacked sufficiently independent funding, reserves, governance, and continuity planning.
- Documented the difference between services delivered and outcomes that were not consistently measured, including whether family separation was prevented or household income became durable.
- Recorded the safeguarding, privacy, measurement, governance, and funding gaps revealed by the project.
Project record · Project reflection
Vocora
Founder and Builder
Vocora is a research-and-building project about learning, memory, language practice, motivation, and learning technology.
Completed and published work includes:
- Built and deployed a full-stack vocabulary-practice application based on Leitner-style review.
- Implemented account registration, sign-in, and learning state stored in MySQL for access across devices.
- Defined product metrics that distinguish practice activity, current performance, and longer-term retention, while documenting that the application does not yet have a validated retention outcome.
- Published privacy and ethical constraints for progress sharing and gamification.
- Published research and design notes informed by work on retrieval practice, spaced practice, motivation, and language learning.
- Released the source code with automated tests and a Docker-based development environment.
Vocora is not presented as an academic affiliation, clinical project, or validated neuroscience intervention. Its published outputs are software and practice-based research documentation.
Project overview · Source code
Experience
K2 Group / K2Quant
May 2010 – Present
Founder and Software Engineer
- Build and maintain software for quantitative and market-related systems.
- Work across front-end, back-end, infrastructure, data analysis, and technical operations.
- Developed and maintained a large library of algorithmic trading strategies and technical indicators used by internal applications.
- Manage application-specific adaptations, server configuration, and operational reliability.
- Lead technical and organizational decisions across ongoing K2 work.
Leadership Facilitator
Since approximately 2017–2018, I have studied and facilitated leadership, team coordination, and organizational practice through K2-related programs and K2 Clearing.
The work includes facilitating conversations, examining recurring operating problems, documenting concepts, and testing how leadership practices affect day-to-day coordination. These activities are practice-based and should not be confused with peer-reviewed organizational research.
Team Lead
- Coordinate contributors working on technical and organizational projects.
- Develop structures for shared responsibility, communication, and decision-making.
- Work on sustainable business and contribution models for long-term projects.
Technical skills: C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, databases, quantitative systems, server operations
Gruccia
July 2024 – Present
Leadership Facilitator
Work with the organization on employee well-being, leadership practice, team coordination, and sales strategy. The role includes structured conversations, feedback, and support for operating changes.
Skills: Leadership facilitation, business coaching, coaching, organizational communication
Transformation and Personal Development
April 2020 – Present
Leadership, Life, and Business Coach
- Completed more than 2,000 hours of direct individual, group, and organizational coaching. This total covers coaching only and excludes teaching, leadership facilitation, and program delivery.
- Work with clients on listening, feedback, responsibility, decision-making, and action.
- Facilitate regular reflection, assessment, and follow-up.
- Work with people at different organizational levels, from individual contributors to managers.
- Treat private coaching material as confidential by default and separate client experience from public research claims.
Skills: Effective listening, feedback, questioning, relationship-building, coaching
Radin Bourse
March 2020 – Present
Full-Stack Developer
- Developed Jasmine helpers for more maintainable unit and integration tests.
- Built contract and end-to-end tests with Cypress and Cucumber.
- Created a TypeScript library for transforming plain objects into class instances.
- Worked with Java back-end developers on shared design and development principles.
- Implemented a search-based accessibility feature for the application.
Technologies: Cypress, test automation, Java, Angular, TypeScript
Eghtesad Bidar Securities
October 2018 – March 2020
Full-Stack Developer
Worked on an online trading platform for stock-market traders and investors.
- Developed JavaScript libraries for processing high-volume WebSocket data.
- Built real-time data and technical-analysis charting components.
- Added automated tests covering most application code and user flows.
- Participated in wireframing, prototyping, user-interface testing, CI, and CD.
- Trained team members in object-oriented design and reusable application structure.
Technologies: MongoDB, Node.js, Angular, TypeScript, automated testing
Alibaba Travels Co.
May 2017 – October 2018
Full-Stack Developer
- Worked across the development lifecycle of a single-page booking back-office application.
- Developed a Node.js compiler that generated custom website templates from a shared base, reducing a previously manual process from days to under an hour.
- Worked with C#, SQL Server, Angular, RxJS, and responsive web interfaces.
- Applied object-oriented and SOLID design principles.
- Collaborated on debugging, performance, maintenance, and user experience.
Technologies: Node.js, Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, Bootstrap, C#, SQL Server
Tadbir Pardaz IT Group Ltd.
February 2016 – April 2018
Developer
Worked as a front-end developer and UI/UX designer on single-page applications for capital-market products, including implementation, maintenance, and interface design.
Personal Software Project
April 2012 – May 2017
Full-Stack Developer
Developed JavaScript libraries for stock-market data visualization and interactive charting.
- Built multiple chart types and editable drawing tools.
- Worked extensively with SVG and Canvas.
- Developed utilities for DOM and SVG traversal and event handling.
- Built a functional reactive library for complex events and data flows.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
2009–2013 · Zanjan, Iran