Summary
Syrus Mesdaghi is a technical leader and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building real-time simulation, geospatial, and web/mobile systems, and co-founded Prominent Edge to commercialize that expertise. He has led engineering teams from academia to industry—teaching AI in game development, architecting squad-based tactical training systems, and productizing advanced terrain-reasoning capabilities for the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit. His background spans C++, Java, C#, Python and DevOps practices, and he has driven transitions of research prototypes into production used by civilian and military customers worldwide. Notably, he has combined hands-on AI and simulation design with program-level technical leadership on major geospatial initiatives like ROGUE/GeoSHAPE. Based in Centreville, VA, he also contributes to standards and advisory boards, reflecting a mix of deep technical craft and strategic program stewardship.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Spanish, Persian