Shahyar Ghobadpour
Principal Cofounder at Trudesk, Inc.
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolShahyar Ghobadpour is a Principal Cofounder and seasoned software leader with 15 years building scalable web and cloud-native products from startups to high-traffic platforms. He founded Trudesk, a customer messaging and helpdesk automation platform, and previously drove engineering and architecture at SplitmediaLabs, Lightspeed, Wikimedia Foundation and other companies, scaling orgs to 50+ engineers and moving release cadence from twice monthly to daily. Hands-on across JavaScript, React, Node.js, Kubernetes/GKE, WebRTC and C++, he blends frontend UX craftsmanship (notably UI improvements to the popular open-source Slack desktop client fork yue/wey) with backend analytics and reliability work on GCP. Shahyar has a track record of operational cost savings, automation of CI/CD and creating self-sufficient engineering teams while mentoring and hiring across geographies. A recovering video-game hacker who still jokes about Windows 98 being a top skill, he pairs curiosity and unconventional background with pragmatic product and engineering leadership. Based in Stuttgart, he contributes to open-source and runs both cloud and on-prem versions of his products, showing comfort across deployment models and customer needs.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-Law Studies, Pre-Law Studies at Dawson College
English, French, Persian, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (7)
html10
javascript10
front-end-development10
handlebars9
css9
ui-design8
slack7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
yue/wey
May 2018 - May 2018
Fast open source Slack desktop app
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Shahyar primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Slack desktop app. Their contributions included adding a hover menu with thread functionality to messages, modifying the styling of messages, and implementing features like message glow. They also fixed various UI issues, such as invalid HTML IDs and word-breaking behavior in messages. Furthermore, they optimized the extra-menu component and improved the user experience by fixing thread activation issues.
electronslack-desktopslackdesktopdesktop-app
shahyar/session
Jul 2021 - Dec 2024
Simple session middleware for Express, now with proper touch management and improved performance
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 5 months
expressjsexpressnodejsmiddlewaresession-middleware
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