Summary
Behzad Boostanchi is a software development manager and systems architect with two decades of hands-on experience building everything from legacy desktop apps to high-throughput cloud-native middleware. He has repeatedly led teams and startups to production, notably architecting a custom caching reverse-proxy in C++ that supported a Persian news platform serving 4M+ active users and sustained peaks of ~32K req/sec. Skilled in designing resilient, low-cost infrastructure, he combines capacity planning and cloud architecture with a developer-first mindset—“performance is a feature”—to optimize for concurrency and low downtime. He has held CTO and advisory roles across fintech, media, and AI companies, and founded a development consultancy to translate complex requirements into pragmatic systems. Based in Sydney, Behzad brings a rare blend of deep systems programming and product-focused leadership, routinely choosing bold technical questions over easy answers.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Shahid Beheshti University
Persian, English