Parsa Bahrami
Chief Technology Officer at Talking Computers
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolParsa Bahrami is a CTO and competitive programmer-driven engineer based in Waterloo, combining two years of industry experience with a strong academic foundation in Honours Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization from the University of Waterloo. He has moved quickly through technical roles—shipping Rust tools for scientific communities at prefix.dev, driving zero-cost data-driven decisions at TextQL, and now leading efforts to make computers talk at Talking Computers. Parsa blends deep algorithmic instincts with practical systems work, preferring elegant, provable solutions to messy hacks. His background in math-focused education and a CS & CO minor signals a penchant for formal thinking that informs product and architecture choices. Despite a relatively short professional timeline, he’s already focused on developer-facing tooling and scientific workflows, suggesting a long-term trajectory toward impactful open-source and research-adjacent systems.
2 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Some high school diploma, Mathematics, Some high school diploma, Mathematics at Allameh Helli schoolNational Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)Computer Science, Computer Science at Young Scholars ClubBachelor of Science - BS, Honours Computer Science, Combinatorical and Optimization Minor, Bachelor of Science - BS, Honours Computer Science, Combinatorical and Optimization Minor at University of Waterloo
English, French
Github Skills (43)
package-management10
conda10
forge10
package-manager-tool10
rust10
package-manager10
rewrite9
busybox9
rust-lang9
peg9
parsing9
gnu9
command-line-tool8
warp8
grammars8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prefix-dev/shell
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
The ultimate cross-platform, bash-like shell
Contributions:26 reviews, 41 PRs, 121 pushes in 6 months
prsabahrami/pixi-pack
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
📦 A tool to pack and unpack conda environments created with pixi
Contributions:2 PRs, 87 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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