A software engineer with 8 years of experience, life coach, and mentor.
I am 26 years old and married to a wonderful wife.
I'm super passionate about coaching, mentorship, and leadership!
My mission is to help and empower people to be self-actualised and live the life they truly want.
I believe soft skills are the most essential in today's world.
My core values are integrity, authenticity, resilience, belonging, and purpose.
Whether you need technical expertise, personal growth, or career guidance, I bring both technical skills and human understanding to help you succeed.
From a musical family in northern Iran to helping people build the life they truly want
Musical Family & Building Foundations
Born in 1999 in Sari, a city in northern Iran, into a musical family. My father was a guitar teacher and high school teacher, my mother played Daf, my sister Tara played guitar, and I played piano. We all knew how to sing. I was also passionate about sports - basketball, football, and ping pong. I was learning English individually outside of school. My family believed in maximizing my talents and were really hard on me, which made me very skillful as I grew up.
Big City Challenges & Finding My Path
We migrated to Tehran when I was 14, which was traumatic. Going from a 500k population city to 20 million was overwhelming. I struggled to find friends and lost myself. I thought people would respect me for my skills, but it wasn't happening. I was studying at Sampad (for gifted students) but my mind was focused on earning money. While others thought about universities, I was thinking about survival and starting to work.
From Android Games to Web Development Internships
I participated in Android programming to build mobile games. I tried various jobs before 18: got into Ponzi scams, worked as a sales person at PeykeBartar, social media manager at a migration institute, and real estate agent. I left Sampad in my final year (huge risk that scared my family) and promised to work while studying for university. I got accepted to university but felt different from others. I learned HTML and CSS, applied for internships, got accepted at 7030, quit university, and then risked lower salary to intern at IIG (Snapp) - the biggest growing startup in Iran.
Taking Leadership Role & Building a Team
After my Snapp internship, I got 3x the salary of my previous job. Then I got an offer as Frontend Chapter Lead at IdeKavan (now Behtarino). We grew from 6 people to 100, and I led more than 12 people. I got stocks, good salary, and offers from Armenia and Dubai. I was earning $5k+ monthly while spending only €100 in Iran. But I was working 16 hours a day, obsessed with money, working 2 full-time jobs. I broke trusts and relationships - not proud of that period. I bought my first apartment at 21 and my first car with cash, but Iran's political issues made me think about immigration.
Getting Engaged to Tara
I got engaged to the love of my life, Tara (we met at English classes when we were 16 and 17 - the only place we could meet girls due to Islamic school separation).
Personal Development & Coaching & Therapy
I got an offer from iO and suddenly migrated to Amsterdam. I focused only on iO, participated in intense leadership programs (Landmark Forum and Sarah Gruneisen course), did 3 years of ISTDP therapy and 2 years of coaching with Nima. I read extensively and listened to podcasts daily. Through this intense self-work, I found my mission: helping people like me who are hungry for a better life, guiding them to build the life they truly want and achieve self-actualization.
Coaching Training & Software Development
Now I'm building my coaching business, which is my true mission, while offering what I excel at - building MVPs and websites incredibly fast. I'm a very fast software engineer. I am completing 125 hours of coaching training at Impact Academy to become ICF certified. My core values - integrity, authenticity, resilience, belonging, and purpose - guide everything I do. My goal is to make the world a better place to live.
Have a question, want to collaborate, or just want to say hello? I'd love to hear from you! Drop me a message and I'll get back to you less than 24 hours.
