Kousha Talebian is a versatile software engineer and entrepreneur with 11+ years of experience building scalable systems, real-time services, and embedded hardware from research labs to production at Twilio and OpenAI. His background spans quantum and biomedical research, control systems, hardware design, and full-stack development—skills he’s applied to shipping high-throughput execution engines, low-latency voice channels for LLMs, and a sold employee-scheduling SaaS. At Twilio he drove major resilience and observability gains, holds a related patent, and led cross-functional R&D for next-generation AI tooling and agent architectures. Comfortable from PCB layout to distributed APIs, he combines deep mathematical modelling with pragmatic product instincts and an operator’s eye for reliability. Outside engineering he composes music, is pursuing a private pilot license, and has a track record of turning academic automation work into measurable operational savings.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at West Vancouver Secondary School
Master's of Applied Science Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Master's of Applied Science Biomedical/Medical Engineering at The University of British Columbia
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