Engineer. Creator. Builder.

I grew up in Tehran, Iran, where I fell in love with computers as a teenager — taking apart hardware, learning to code, and spending more time on forums than I probably should have.

I studied Computer Engineering and quickly found my passion in building distributed systems. After several years working in the Iranian tech ecosystem — which is more vibrant than most people realize — I made the decision to pursue my career internationally.

That journey eventually brought me to Berlin, a city that matched my energy perfectly: pragmatic, international, and serious about engineering.

Over the past decade, I've worked across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS — building everything from payment infrastructure to real-time collaboration tools to data pipelines that process billions of events.

As a Principal Engineer and Tech Lead, I spend my time at the intersection of technical strategy and execution. I write code, review systems, mentor engineers, and work closely with product and business to make sure technology decisions align with long-term goals.

I care deeply about clean architecture, pragmatic technical decisions, and building engineering cultures where people do their best work.

I started SiaExplains because I wanted to create the content I wished existed when I was earlier in my career. Content that respects your intelligence, gives you the “why” not just the “how”, and is honest about the messy realities of a tech career.

The channel covers system design, AI tools, productivity systems for engineers, and the immigration journey through tech — topics that are underserved by the typical tutorial-factory content.

When I'm not building software, I'm probably reading, doing strength training, or exploring Berlin's surprisingly great coffee scene. I'm also an avid reader — fiction and non-fiction alike.

I speak Persian (Farsi), English, and enough German to survive a Berliner bureaucracy encounter.