Summary
Parham Ossareh is a seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years of hands-on experience building scalable systems, now serving as Director of Engineering after leading teams at Range and pioneering hardware-software platforms for a single-molecule protein sequencer. He combines deep pragmatic engineering (Golang, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python) with product instincts from multiple founder roles, including consumer-scale growth at Heysan and Twitch where he helped scale to ~120M uniques/month and dramatically improved test coverage. Parham favors pragmatic, widely-adopted technologies and a culture of craft—shipping reliable, monitored systems while paying down technical debt. He has a proven track record across startups and established companies, from launching mobile apps and IM platforms to running cloud, control-plane, and infosec initiatives for life-science instruments. A natural teacher who learned through self-study and brilliant peers, he now focuses on turning hard-earned lessons into repeatable practices for teams. Based in Vienna, VA, he still enjoys hacking on experimental projects and prefers sensible engineering choices over clever complexity.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Kingsbury High School
YCombinator