Summary
Farhad Noorzay is an experienced mobile software engineer and founder with 11 years building high-quality iOS products and leading teams from startups to large companies. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he founded Hoopfit—a hardware-enabled basketball training platform—and currently contributes to OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff working on the ChatGPT iOS app. His background spans hands-on engineering and management at companies like Slack and Affirm, where he led iOS and cross-platform mobile efforts, and earlier roles at LinkedIn Pulse, Double Robotics, and Apple sharpened his systems and native app expertise. Farhad blends product intuition with hardware-software integration skills, and his career shows a pattern of shipping consumer-facing mobile experiences that scale from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego