Summary
Hesaam Farhang is an Erlang-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building fault-tolerant, telecom-grade systems and scalable web services from San Francisco. He has led backend teams and built real-time messaging and VoIP platforms using Erlang, RabbitMQ, CouchDB and C (FreeSWITCH/Kamailio), and has hands-on experience across JavaScript, PHP, Python, Go and Node.js. Comfortable across UNIX networking and TCP/IP, he combines practical systems administration with product-facing API and WebSocket design. Beyond core backend work he’s prototyped computer-vision tools, turbine simulation utilities, and a technical hiring platform, reflecting a strong mix of research-driven R&D and production engineering. Passionate about functional programming, fault tolerance and resilient systems, he’s exploring ML, genetic algorithms and low-level survival system designs for harsh environments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer