What I do
Professional
Systems, and the People Inside Them
I’m the Director of Technology and Innovation at TinyEYE, a Canadian company that delivers therapy to students in schools across North America. As part of the executive team, I lead software engineering, product, design, IT, and process management — the full chain that turns a child needs help into a therapist is on the screen.
The mandate is broad on purpose. I set technology and product strategy, and I also own the plumbing underneath it — infrastructure, data, automation, security — because strategy that ignores plumbing is theater. The question I ask most is why: durable systems come from understood problems, and most broken ones come from unexamined answers. Lately, much of my work is AI — building tools and automations that take repetitive work off people’s plates, not to replace their judgment, but to give them back the hours for the work only humans can do.
And beneath all of it: people. I coach and mentor, build hiring and growth paths, and work to create conditions where a person’s ambitions and the company’s mission pull in the same direction — because the most durable thing you ever ship is a person who’s better at their craft than when they arrived.
The measure I trust is simple: somewhere, a kid who was waiting too long for help isn’t waiting anymore.
Community
People are All That Matters
As Executive Director of the Saskatoon Iranian Cultural Association (SICA), I serve an Iranian community that has grown into the largest this city has ever seen. Growth is an opportunity, not an achievement. The achievement is turning size into belonging — making sure no one has to figure out a new country alone.
In practice, the work is unglamorous, which is how you know it’s real: translating for community members at appointments and offices, walking newcomers through their first months, running career workshops and coaching webinars, organizing Norooz and the celebrations that keep the culture breathing here, fundraising, advocating, and — most often — simply showing up.
None of it is about titles. It’s about standing beside people, so that every member of this community feels seen, supported, and valued.
Community is just the name we give to not wanting anyone to be left alone.
Elsewhere
I provide coaching and digital services to businesses in Saskatoon — a community is as strong as the individual components that shape it. I write, in Farsi and English: essays that circle the same question from different directions — what systems do to people, and what gets lost when we put names on things. And I tinker — self-hosted everything, and a homelab that is definitely finished and will absolutely never be touched again.