Summary
Bijan Nejad is a software leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of engineering experience who blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in theoretical physics—with practical cloud-native and web product expertise. As Senior Staff Engineer at Jimdo and co-founder/managing director of Chili Immo, he architects and ships scalable solutions for website and e‑commerce platforms, focusing on AWS and distributed systems. His background in high-performance scientific computing (large Fortran codebases, MPI workflows and automated test suites) informs a data-driven, reproducible approach to engineering and infrastructure. Comfortable switching between hands-on development and strategic leadership, he has repeatedly moved from research-grade code to production services while mentoring junior engineers. Based in Hamburg, he combines curiosity-driven problem solving from physics with an entrepreneurial knack for turning complex systems into user-facing products.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Physics at University of Hamburg
Master of Science with Honors (M.Sc.hon.) Physics, Master of Science with Honors (M.Sc.hon.) Physics at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
Abitur Physics + Chemistry, Abitur Physics + Chemistry at Schiller-Gymnasium, Pforzheim
English, German, French