Toronto · Designer · Engineer · Founder

Faramarz
Hashemi

Designer fluent in the stack.

10 years in financial systems

Currently Ripple Treasury

Building Nodus

Writing Structured Thinking

Work

Ripple TreasuryThe platform's navigation was the top reason deals were lost. Led the research-driven redesign — the first structural update in 8 years.
160+ countries · billions daily
NodusAI infrastructure I founded and run daily. Specialized agents, vectorized knowledge, trust provenance on every output. One dependency.
17 agents · 630K+ chunks · local-first
Keystone Design SystemTwo brands survived an acquisition because the token pipeline made them composable, not competing.
1 source → 6 formats → 2 brands
Structured ThinkingFIBO has 1,346 classes. Design tokens have string values. Building the semantic layer between them.
Design formalization

Expertise

Design Systems

Token architecture
Multi-brand governance
Semantic aliasing
Style Dictionary

AI Infrastructure

Agent orchestration
Vector knowledge
Trust provenance
Local-first arch

Financial Systems

Treasury platforms
Capital markets
Regulated crypto
Analytics CoE

Engineering

React + TypeScript
Python + FastAPI
SQL + SQLite
Figma

Writing

Design Needs What Finance Has: The Ontology Gap

Finance built FIBO — 1,346 classes, 273 object properties. Design has JSON tokens with string values. The semantic layer between them is the work.

Structured Thinking · 2026