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Babak Tirgar

Co-Founder · SCADA/OT Architect

Babak Tirgar

SCADA/OT Architect

Multi-Brand Wind & HVDC

SCADA/OT architect with 20+ years in industrial automation, HVDC transmission, and onshore and offshore wind, spanning multi-vendor integration, grid-code testing, commissioning, and OT platforms.

Profile

SCADA/OT architect with 20+ years in industrial automation, HVDC transmission, and onshore and offshore wind. Integrates operational technology across heterogeneous turbine fleets, aligning turbine interfaces, data models, OT networks and industrial protocols into architecture that stays maintainable across vendors and generations. Covers delivery and quality work — FAT/SAT, commissioning, grid-code testing and cybersecurity assessment — and builds the tooling around it: simulators, data generators and analytics in Python, Rust and C# that make faults reproducible before they reach site.

In brief

  • 20+ years across wind, HVDC and industrial automation
  • SCADA/OT architecture for 200+ wind farms, over 2 GW
  • Offshore delivery on He Dreiht and Borssele III & IV, 1.7 GW
  • Multi-brand integration: Vestas, Enercon, Siemens Gamesa, Nordex, GE
  • Leads technical decisions and mentors engineers across five countries

Expertise

Protocols

  • OPC UA
  • OPC Classic DA/HDA
  • IEC 61850 MMS/GOOSE
  • IEC 60870-5-101/-104
  • DNP3
  • Modbus
  • EtherNet/IP
  • PROFINET/PROFIBUS
  • SuiteLink
  • Vestas AP
  • DCE3
  • WindMan
  • REST APIs

Development and data

  • Python
  • Rust
  • C#/.NET
  • SQL
  • MongoDB
  • Streamlit
  • Plotly
  • AG Grid
  • PyQt
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV
  • JavaScript
  • VBA
  • Power Automate

SCADA and HMI platforms

  • rotorsoft
  • Wonderware ArchestrA/System Platform
  • ABB MicroSCADA
  • ABB 800xA
  • Siemens SIMATIC & WinCC
  • COPA-DATA zenon
  • Omron NB Designer
  • LS XP-Builder

Controllers

  • Rockwell ControlLogix
  • Bachmann MC Series
  • Siemens S7
  • Omron NX7
  • LS Glofa
  • ABB MACH3/800xA
  • VxWorks

Infrastructure and cyber

  • OT network design
  • Cisco and Hirschmann switching and firewalls
  • VLAN/VPN
  • Cybersecurity risk assessment
  • VMware ESXi
  • Active Directory
  • Docker

Soft skills

  • Technical leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Customer training
  • Stakeholder management
  • Cross-vendor coordination
  • Technical documentation
  • Escalation handling

Career Timeline

7 roles — select one to read the detail.

Noron AB

Co-Founder & Senior SCADA Architect

Sept 2026 – Ongoing · Ludvika, Sweden

  • Consultancy for SCADA/OT architecture, integration and complex incident resolution across wind farms, power-generation assets and HVDC transmission.
  • Services include multi-vendor integration, technical assessment and modernisation, solution architecture, operational support and escalation-level troubleshooting.
  • Developing vendor-independent SCADA platform concepts that pair established industrial technology with modern software.
  • SCADA/OT
  • Multi-vendor integration
  • Solution architecture
  • Wind farms
  • Power generation
  • HVDC
  • Modernisation
  • Incident resolution
  • Operational support

Eurowind Energy

Senior SCADA Specialist / SCADA Architect

Apr 2024 – Aug 2026 · Hamburg, Germany

  • Led the SCADA/OT architecture for a portfolio of 200+ wind farms totalling over 2 GW, spanning multiple turbine brands and hardware generations.
  • Integrated Vestas, Enercon, Siemens Gamesa, Nordex, GE and NEG Micon fleets, plus Mita-Teknik controllers, standardising on the rotorsoft platform as the common operational layer.
  • Resolved escalation-level faults across SCADA applications, industrial communications, databases, server and container infrastructure, and OT networks.
  • Built and operated internal platform tooling in Python and Rust, including Trader Portal Monitoring and the SCADA Telemetry Gateway, replacing manual engineering steps with repeatable, documented workflows.
  • Mentored 10 engineers and documented diagnostic playbooks that moved first-line resolution out of the architect's queue.
  • SCADA/OT architecture
  • 200+ wind farms
  • 2 GW
  • rotorsoft
  • Vestas
  • Enercon
  • Siemens Gamesa
  • Nordex
  • Mita-Teknik
  • Python
  • Rust
  • OT networks
  • Escalation support
  • Mentoring

Vestas Wind Systems

SCADA Specialist — Offshore Wind

Jan 2022 – Mar 2024 · Hamburg, Germany

  • Member of the NCE SCADA Subject Matter Expert team, setting technical strategy and solution patterns for He Dreiht and Borssele III & IV, totalling 1.7 GW.
  • Designed a transformer failover topology and the SCADA interface architecture for offshore assets, removing a single point of failure from the operational data path.
  • Led FAT and SAT validation, cybersecurity risk assessment, and technical review of contractual requirements.
  • Authored technical and as-built documentation for project delivery, validation, and handover.
  • Offshore wind
  • He Dreiht
  • Borssele III & IV
  • Interface architecture
  • Redundancy
  • FAT/SAT
  • Cybersecurity assessment
  • Documentation

Vestas Wind Systems

SCADA Lead — Onshore Wind

Jan 2019 – Dec 2022 · Hamburg, Germany

  • Led SCADA delivery, commissioning, and grid-code testing for 20+ wind parks across Germany, Sweden, Finland, Poland, and Northern Ireland, representing over 2 GW.
  • Developed SCADA software and Rockwell ControlLogix Add-On Instructions for park-specific control and integration requirements, reusable across subsequent projects.
  • Configured Cisco and Hirschmann switching and firewalls, VMware ESXi environments, and OT network connectivity.
  • Acted as SCADA stakeholder for bat-mitigation and shadow-control systems, while training and mentoring incoming engineers.
  • Onshore wind
  • Commissioning
  • Grid-code testing
  • ControlLogix
  • Cisco
  • Hirschmann
  • VMware ESXi
  • OT networks
  • Mentoring

ABB (now Hitachi Energy)

Project Engineer — HVDC SCADA & HMI

Jan 2013 – Dec 2019 · Ludvika, Sweden

  • Owned SCADA and HMI engineering for HVDC projects and acted as system integrator on upgrade programmes, including the first large-scale multi-terminal HVDC system, Quebec–Boston.
  • Designed and developed Wonderware ArchestrA/System Platform solutions, industrial communication interfaces, and project-specific engineering tools.
  • Executed FAT, SAT, and site commissioning across projects in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
  • Administered VMware ESXi, OT networks, and SQL data, and integrated RTU communications across the HVDC protocol stack.
  • Delivered 300+ hours of customer training in Canada and the United States, while working in a Scrum development team.
  • HVDC
  • Multi-terminal HVDC
  • Wonderware ArchestrA
  • System integration
  • FAT/SAT
  • Commissioning
  • RTU
  • VMware ESXi
  • SQL
  • Customer training

Vishaar Automation Co.

Co-Founder & Technical Manager

Jan 2007 – Dec 2013 · Babol, Iran

  • Co-founded an automation business delivering PLC programming, HMI design, and end-to-end industrial control solutions.
  • Designed a poultry-farm automation solution covering environmental control, automated weighing and feeding, visual monitoring, and data acquisition on Omron and LS controllers.
  • PLC programming
  • HMI design
  • Industrial control
  • Omron
  • LS
  • Data acquisition

Eimen Rahkar Co.

Automation Engineer

Jan 2004 – Dec 2007 · Babol, Iran

  • Installed and integrated CCTV, alarm, access-control, and home-automation systems.
  • CCTV
  • Alarm systems
  • Access control
  • Home automation

Highlights

Selected projects

He Dreiht, Germany

Vestas, 900 MW offshore, V236-15.0 MW.

Borssele III & IV, Netherlands

Vestas, 731.5 MW offshore, V164-9.5 MW.

Quebec–Boston multi-terminal HVDC

ABB. First large-scale multi-terminal HVDC system.

HVDC commissioning portfolio

ABB. Oklaunion, KontiSkan and Madawaska.

European onshore portfolio

Vestas. Five countries, 20+ parks, over 2 GW.

Engineering software developed

SCADA analytics and simulation

Python solutions with Streamlit, Plotly and AG Grid reproducing PLC logic against historian data to validate control behaviour before deployment, including a historian-driven power-meter simulator.

Protocol engineering

Configurable master and slave simulators for Modbus and IEC 60870-5-101/-104, generated from project signal lists in C# and Python.

Configuration and data tooling

Generators for Bachmann and ControlLogix, a MicroSCADA COM500 generator, and a large-dataset MongoDB extraction utility in Python and PyQt.

Specialist utilities

Meinberg LANTIME M500 PTP pulse-counter utility for transient-fault recorder logic, and Power Automate solutions.

Education and qualifications

Education

  • BSc Electronics Engineering

    Noshirvani University of Technology, Iran

    2000 - 2004

Courses and certifications

  • Vestas Regional Talent

    Six-month global development programme

    2021 - 2022

Languages

  • Farsi

    native

  • English

    professional

  • German

    conversational

  • Swedish

    conversational

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