Nima Hejazi

Solutions Engineer · AI, Automation & Data

Available for work · Chicago, IL · open to relocation

I build software people actually use.

Three-time founder with an MS in Business Analytics. I sit down with the people who have the problem, work out what they actually need, build it, and stay until it's adopted, whether that's a scheduling system a campus police team relies on or an AI app that answers only from your own notes.

Scheduling errors
−94% Lock Scheduler, SRJC
Weekly effort
10h → 15m Same project
Clients served
50+ 11 years as a founder
Nima Hejazi portrait
01 · Projects

Things I've built and shipped.

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NovoMemo landing page: "Your notes, with answers."

NovoMemo: AI notes that answer only from what you wrote

A markdown notes app you can ask questions. Answers come only from your own notes, with a citation that jumps to the exact passage, and it says "not found" rather than guessing. Built solo with live billing and offline sync.

  • RAG
  • pgvector
  • Supabase
  • Expo
  • TypeScript
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Lock Scheduler desktop interface showing the course schedule list and the Add Course dialog.

Lock Scheduler: replacing a 16-year manual process

A desktop app I built unprompted at Santa Rosa Junior College for the police, custodial, and maintenance teams. Scheduling errors fell 94% and weekly effort went from 10 hours to 15 minutes.

  • Python
  • SQLite
  • wxPython
  • Process improvement
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PropertySpot.net landing page: "Create your property website under 20 minutes."

PropertySpot: listing websites in under 20 minutes

A self-serve tool for real estate agents to publish a dedicated listing site, born from my own business filming about 100 property tours. Includes MLS/address lookups and built-in lead capture.

  • Laravel
  • React
  • MySQL
  • Stripe
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toolmaking.net & ask

A home for the free tools I build for myself, including ask, a terminal AI assistant that works with local models or an API key and can answer from your own notes.

  • Python
  • CLI
  • LLM
  • Open source
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nimahejazi.me

This site: static Astro 5 with Tailwind v4 and MDX, deployed to Vercel on every push to main.

  • Astro
  • Tailwind CSS
  • MDX
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02 · Experience

Three businesses, one campus, one law school.

I've sold the work, built it, and supported it afterward, for my own customers and for the teams I worked with.

  • Imaginovo (NovoMemo)

    Aug 2026 – Present

    Founder Founder & Developer · Chicago, IL

    • Designed and launched NovoMemo, a cross-platform AI notes app (TypeScript, Expo/React Native, Supabase) that answers questions only from a user's own notes, with clickable source citations.
    • Built the retrieval pipeline end to end: heading-aware chunking, OpenAI embeddings in Postgres/pgvector, and a relevance threshold that answers "not found" instead of guessing.
    • Shipped live subscription billing and offline-first sync in about 12 weeks, working solo and directing AI coding agents (Claude Code) through a spec- and test-driven workflow.
    • Read the NovoMemo case study →
  • UC Law San Francisco, IT Department

    Oct 2025 – Apr 2026

    IT Support (part-time) · San Francisco, CA

    • Provided Tier 1 and 2 support for hardware, software, and network issues while completing my MS.
    • Supported Microsoft 365 and SharePoint administration and business applications for staff and faculty.
  • Santa Rosa Junior College

    Apr 2022 – Aug 2025

    Administrative Assistant III · A&R Specialist I · Work Coordinator · Santa Rosa & Petaluma, CA

    • Built Lock Scheduler on my own initiative: a Python/SQLite desktop app replacing a 16-year-old manual Excel process that campus police, custodial, and maintenance teams relied on.
    • Interviewed all three stakeholder groups, shipped in 6 weeks, and ran it alongside the manual process before cutover, cutting scheduling errors 94% and weekly effort from 10 hours to 15 minutes.
    • Read the Lock Scheduler case study →
  • PropertySpot (Robot Kudos)

    2020 – 2021

    Founder · California

    • Shot and edited about 100 property tour videos for real estate agents and paired each with a listing website, generating about $20K in revenue.
    • Built propertyspot.net (Laravel, React, MySQL), a self-serve tool that lets agents publish a listing site in under 20 minutes, with MLS/address APIs and built-in lead capture.
  • Gamma Direct

    2008 – 2019

    Founder · Tehran, Iran

    • Ran a web, hosting, and IT services business on my own for 11 years, handling sales, delivery, and support for 50+ small-business clients.
    • Built a data pipeline for Donya-e-Eqtesad, Iran's leading financial daily, converting raw stock-market data into print-ready tables.
    • Developed a custom ASP financial-news membership platform and redeployed it for multiple clients, plus a referral marketing site that paid users commission for bringing in clients.
03 · About

Founder first, then a degree to match.

I started my first business in Tehran in 2008: building websites, hosting, and IT for more than 50 small businesses over 11 years, mostly on my own. That meant selling the work, building it, and supporting it afterward.

After moving to the US in 2019, I launched PropertySpot, filming property tours for real estate agents and building a self-serve listing-site tool. Then I went back to school: a BS in Business Administration with a CS minor (summa cum laude), and an MS in Business Analytics at UC Davis.

Along the way I built Lock Scheduler at Santa Rosa Junior College without anyone asking, and now I'm building NovoMemo, an AI notes app. I'm looking for a team where I can do the same thing at scale: understand the customer, build the solution, and make it stick.

AI & Data
RAG · LLM APIs (OpenAI, OpenRouter) · Embeddings · pgvector · Python · SQL · R · ETL & data validation
Web & Apps
TypeScript · React · React Native (Expo) · PHP / Laravel · ASP · Supabase · PostgreSQL · MySQL · SQLite
Cloud & Tools
AWS · Cloudflare · Git / GitHub · Docker · Stripe · RevenueCat · wxPython
Working with people
Requirements gathering · Stakeholder interviews · Client sales · Rollout & training · Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt) · English & Persian
04 · Education

Business training, technical depth.

Graduated summa cum laude with a computer science minor, then an MS in Business Analytics.

  1. Jun 2026

    MS, Business Analytics

    University of California, Davis · Davis, CA

    • GPA 3.75

    Practicum with My Growth Marketer: led pricing strategy for a client business and presented recommendations to the team.

    • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, UC Davis (Apr 2026)
  2. Dec 2024

    BS, Business Administration (Management) · Minor, Computer Science

    Sonoma State University · Rohnert Park, CA

    • Summa Cum Laude
    • GPA 4.0
    • Presidential Scholarship
    • Beta Gamma Sigma
    • Phi Theta Kappa
05 · Contact

Have a problem worth solving? Let's talk.

Looking for full-time solutions, implementation, and AI engineering roles. Hybrid or onsite, anywhere in the US. I usually reply within a day.

hello@nimahejazi.me
Location
Chicago, IL · open to relocation
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