Amir Tahvildaran is a seasoned technology executive and founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling product and engineering organizations, currently serving as CEO of The Software Smith in Philadelphia. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at BizEquity—VP of Engineering to CTO to COO—while simultaneously serving as CTO for BizLeads, demonstrating a rare blend of hands-on engineering and operational leadership. A full-stack developer by training, Amir contributes to notable open-source projects like JHipster, improving authentication, CI/CD, and Kubernetes-ready database configurations. He also taught server- and client-side programming at Drexel University, reflecting a commitment to mentoring and curriculum development alongside production work. Known for moving between code and strategy, he combines practical systems knowledge (from system administration to modern microservices) with a founder’s mindset for product-market fit.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Drexel University
JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, & deploy modern web applications & microservice architectures.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 15 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Amir primarily focused on enhancing the JHipster project's capabilities across multiple areas. They addressed issues related to authentication and API interactions by modifying Swagger client configurations for both Angular and React applications. They also worked on infrastructure, setting Maven's user home variable within the Travis CI configuration. Further contributions included improvements to the CI/CD setup and database configuration, with the addition of R2DBC URLs for Kubernetes deployments.
Starter Architecture Demo for Flutter & Firebase Realtime Apps
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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