Hi, I'm Kia

Software Engineer, 1x Founder

Pharm.D. dropout turned engineer

I poured years into a Pharm.D. program, grinding through labs and lectures, but coding was always the side obsession I couldn't drop. Nights and weekends went into building little projects, just for fun, until one hackathon flipped everything. That detour turned into offers from U.S. startups, long-term collaborations, and a full-time career building software.

These days I take products from first commit to production: frontend, backend, and infra (which, let's be honest, mostly means AWS). Along the way I figured out that the best problems are the ones nobody wants. Slow pages, tangled form logic, feeds that need a ground-up rewrite. Pharmacy gave me discipline; software gave me freedom. I don't plan on slowing down.

If future me stumbles back here, I hope he smiles and thinks, “yeah, we kept going.”

Tools of the trade

Languages

  • TypeScriptTypeScript
  • PythonPython
  • SwiftSwift

Frontend

  • ReactReact
  • Next.jsNext.js
  • Tailwind CSSTailwind CSS
  • ShadcnShadcn

Backend

  • Node.jsNode.js
  • BunBun
  • HonoHono
  • DjangoDjango
  • ExpressExpress

Data

  • PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
  • MongoDBMongoDB
  • MySQLMySQL
  • DrizzleDrizzle

Infrastructure

  • AWSAWS
  • DockerDocker

Plus whatever the next project calls for.

Education

  • University of London

    B.S. in Computer Science (Ongoing)

  • Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

    Doctor of Pharmacy

    After three years of pharmacy school, I left to build software full time.

  • National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (SAMPAD)

    High School Diploma

What I speak

  • Azerbaijani

    Native

  • Persian

    Native

  • English

    Fluent

  • Turkish

    Not bad