Mazdak Hashemi's career has focused on building and scaling platforms and infrastructures for both consumer and enterprise companies. He was formerly vice president of engineering at Twitter, where during his tenure [2012-2018] he championed a number of efforts which improved Twitter’s reliability, scalability and efficiency. Prior to Twitter, he led infrastructure and security for Support.com, a remote technology company, and he was part of the core team to architect and launch the company's Cloud platform. Mazdak was the CTO/founder for a software start-up company, and he has held different engineering roles for small-to-medium sized global software companies, from early stage to mature public companies. Mazdak has served as faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder, his alma mater, where he received a doctorate in computer science. His areas of technical expertise include software engineering, data mining, databases and distributed systems. Mazdak is an advocate of promoting equality in technology and was a male ally executive sponsor for @TwitterWomen.