I grew up in Iran and moved to Canada at age 14. I studied physics in university and contributed to a paper on the nanostructure of graphene while at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. I then moved to San Francisco where I led the development of machine learning infrastructure at Omada Health and worked on independent projects like using data to book a concert. Later, I led engineering at an Ethereum infrastructure project called Truebit (my explainer and demo), and worked on ecosystem development at the Ethereum Foundation (my talk at Devcon4).

I'm now working on Into the Bytecode and Zeitgeist.

I also meditate and have spent a number of months on silent retreat.

You can find me on Twitter.