Pouya Nafisi
Head Of Engineering at Stealth AI Startup
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPouya Nafisi is a hands-on Head of Engineering with 8 years in senior leadership and a 20+ year technical career building omnichannel commerce and enterprise platforms. He has led end-to-end transformations—owning P&L, architecture, and delivery—across retail, CPG and regulated industries, integrating ERP, OMS, CRM, POS and CDP-driven personalization at scale. Pouya founded a boutique consultancy that was acquired and then ran global omnichannel delivery for Huge, and later served as CTO during a PE-backed expansion to deliver SOX-compliant, multi-location retail platforms. Based in Irvine, he combines strategic partner management (Salesforce, Shopify, Adobe) with continued hands-on architecture and critical technical decision-making. He’s equally comfortable in startup stealth AI environments and stabilizing high-traffic media and commerce systems, bringing a rare blend of operational rigor and product-focused engineering.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Bielefeld University
Persian, German, English
Github Skills (14)
electron9
typescript9
visual-studio-code8
vscode8
editor8
microsoft8
vscode-extension8
visual-studio8
bitcoin7
cryptocurrency7
virtualbox6
vagrant5
magento4
developer-tools2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
boooya/sfcc_storelocator
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 13 pushes in 3 days
pxlhero/responsive-grid-light
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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