Kia Fathi
Builder at Fifty Years
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKia Fathi is a Head of Product & Engineering with 11 years of experience building and scaling web and IoT platforms across startups and large enterprises from seed-stage to S&P10. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kia combines hands-on engineering—rewriting APIs in Go, real-time websockets, and front-end component libraries—with product leadership that drove Mira from zero to nearly $500k ARR and dramatically improved device uptime and customer support metrics. At Google they led cross-functional teams for internal developer and business process automation platforms, taught company-wide classes, and conducted 100+ interviews, demonstrating a talent for scaling teams and developer productivity. Kia’s background in biology and stem-cell research adds a research-driven, experimental approach to problem solving and spotting translational opportunities in scientific founders. Known for improving developer velocity and operational stability, they bridge product strategy with engineering execution to move founders and teams further, faster.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Duke UniversityHighschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Saint Francis High School
English, Persian
Github Skills (53)
crawler8
scrape8
scraper8
web-crawler8
resin7
nodejs7
npm7
pdf7
forward-proxy6
node-server6
react6
balena6
api6
sdk6
yocto6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KiaFathi/TesselHackathon
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 1 day
DSLibrary/dslib
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:105 commits in 1 month
data-structuresjavascripttypescriptjavascript-data-structures
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