Zahan was trained as a physicist, but fell into making software almost by accident. In his 11 years as a software engineer at Meta, he’s worked on a range of things including the Facebook product, internet.org, dev tools, a hardware product, to Instagram and two generations of Threads apps. He loves the freedom of building something from the ground up, and good (software) design is his passion.

He’s contributed to one of the largest continuous deployment systems in the world (CD for Meta’s backend monolith), the largest Django deployment (Instagram), a widely used Mobile UI framework (React Native), the fastest scaling new app release (Threads), and just to stay grounded: many other projects that went nowhere.

He has a two-year old (whom he adores), so he doesn’t have any free time; but if he did, you’d probably find him on a road bike on one of the beautiful hills in the Bay Area; or curled up with an interesting book: non-fiction, or high fantasy.