Syrus Mesdaghi
Chief Executive Officer at Prominent Edge
Centreville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSyrus 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.
13 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
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Github Skills (54)
wps10
geoserver10
java9
wcs9
django9
wfs9
openlayers9
wms9
maps9
boilerplate8
react8
eslint8
gis8
mobile-application8
postgis8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ROGUE-JCTD/vida
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
ROGUE-JCTD/django-tilebundler
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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