Technology leadership with operator instincts.
I am Azad Ziadiparast — a founder and strategist who has spent more than a decade building SaaS products, infrastructure platforms, and advisory partnerships across Iran and international B2B markets.
My work sits at the intersection of architecture, business narrative, and execution discipline. I am not interested in generic CV layouts — I partner with teams who need clarity under uncertainty.
Positioning
What I optimize for
Decision durability
Choices that survive team changes, traffic growth, and investor scrutiny.
Revenue-aligned architecture
Systems designed around pricing, onboarding, and customer exposure — not resume-driven complexity.
Founder-level communication
Technical trade-offs translated into language leadership can act on.
Timeline
A founder arc, not a job history
2012 — Present
Founder & technology strategist
Building SaaS, infrastructure, and product companies with a bias toward durable architecture and measurable business outcomes.
2016 — 2022
Infrastructure & platform leadership
Led hosting, scaling, and platform modernization programs across high-traffic products and multi-tenant systems.
2022 — Present
Advisory & CTO-as-a-Service
Partnering with founders and leadership teams on roadmap clarity, architecture decisions, and execution discipline.
Advisory philosophy
How I work with leadership teams
Business-first architecture
Technology choices should reduce risk, increase speed, and create leverage — not showcase complexity.
Operational realism
Systems must survive traffic spikes, team turnover, and imperfect execution environments.
Founder-level clarity
Translate technical trade-offs into decisions leadership can defend to investors, customers, and teams.