AI Consultancy · Engineering Leadership

Make Your Company Smarter

I help startup founders and growing teams build the right product, automate the manual work slowing them down, and scale without breaking what works — using AI, automation, and 16+ years of engineering leadership.

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16+ years engineering leadership68% lead time reduction delivered1.3B events/month at scale

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A practical 30-minute conversation. No sales pitch, no obligation.

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Workflow automation map

42 hrs

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Live analysis

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1Operations signal received
2Document intake classified
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4Weekly reporting ready for roadmap
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AI readiness signal

Roadmap confidence: high

Is This For You?

Solo senior leadership, not an agency

This is a good fit if

  • You are a startup co-founder building or scaling a product
  • Your team feels slower than it should
  • You want a senior technical opinion without a full-time hire

This is not a fit if

  • You need a large delivery team or fixed-scope dev shop
  • You want work to start immediately with no discovery conversation first

You work directly with me — a senior engineering leader with 16+ years building and scaling teams — not a team of juniors.

Featured Case Study

How We Reduced Developer Lead Time by 68% Using an AI-Powered Engineering Agent

An AI engineering agent across the full SDLC: risk-based routing, automated context gathering, quality gates, and human review that scales with risk.

68%

Average lead time reduction

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Risk-based delivery paths

100%

Changes pass validation gates

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AI-powered software delivery lifecycle flowchart from Jira intake through deployment and continuous learning.

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Other Problems I Have Solved

Short examples from platform engineering, cloud optimization, and engineering leadership.

Platform Engineering

50M → 1.3B Events per Month

A Series B analytics platform outgrew its original architecture. I redesigned ingestion, processing, and ownership so the team could scale without rewriting everything.

26×Event volume scaled

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Cloud Optimization

Cutting AWS Waste Without Slowing Delivery

A 50-person SaaS team was overpaying for idle resources and unclear ownership. I identified quick wins and a sequenced plan that engineers could adopt without disruption.

18%Infrastructure waste found

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What I Do

Three Ways I Can Help

Most companies fall into one of three stages. Find yours.

Build

You have an idea, no product yet

Automate

You have a product, too much manual work

Scale

You have traction, growing pains

Build

You have an idea, no product yet

Turn Your Idea Into a Real Product

From concept to working software — without overbuilding or guessing.

Who this is for

Co-founders with an idea, a market hypothesis, or an early sketch — and no technical leader yet to make it real.

What is included

  • Product architecture and technical roadmap
  • MVP scoping — what to build first, what to defer
  • Build or guide the build (hands-on or technical direction)
  • Tech stack decisions suited to your stage

Proof point

I have made these decisions before — including the expensive mistakes — so you do not have to.

Automate

You have a product, too much manual work

Stop Doing By Hand What Software Should Do For You

Practical AI and workflow automation — applied where it actually saves time, not where it sounds impressive.

Who this is for

Teams with a working product or process who are losing hours to repetitive manual work — intake, reporting, routing, data entry, internal ops.

What is included

  • Workflow audit — find where time is actually being lost
  • Internal AI assistants and automations
  • CI/CD and engineering workflow automation
  • Process redesign around the automation

Proof point

68% lead time reduction with an AI engineering agent — automation tied to a measurable outcome, not a demo.

Scale

You have traction, growing pains

Grow Without Your Engineering Team or Cloud Bill Breaking

Cloud architecture, reliability, and engineering practices built for where you are headed — not just where you are.

Who this is for

Companies with traction — real users, real revenue, real growth — where delivery is slowing down, the AWS bill is climbing, or the architecture was not built for this much load.

What is included

  • Cloud architecture review and cost optimization (AWS)
  • Reliability, monitoring, and security hardening
  • Engineering team workflow improvements
  • Technical leadership support and second opinions

Proof point

Platforms processing 1.3B+ monthly events — cloud-native, distributed systems designed for real load.

Projects

AI Products That Show What Practical Automation Looks Like

A look at products and tools built around real business workflows, starting with AI-powered candidate analysis for recruitment teams.

AI Recruitment Platform

JobFlux

JobFlux is an AI-powered candidate analysis platform for recruitment agencies that need faster, more consistent shortlisting without losing human judgment.

Faster candidate reviewMore consistent shortlistingBetter use of recruiter expertise
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A Different Conversation

Sometimes You Don't Need Another Developer

You need someone who can help answer questions like:

Are we building the right thing?

Is our architecture heading in the right direction?

How should we use AI?

Why is delivery slowing down?

Are we wasting money in AWS?

What should we automate first?

That's a very different conversation.

Common Conversations I Have With Companies

You may not know exactly what solution you need yet. That is normal. Most useful projects start with a simple business problem.

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“We spend too much time on repetitive manual work.”

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“Our engineering team is moving slower than we want.”

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“We want to use AI, but we do not know where to start.”

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“Our tools and processes are disconnected.”

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“Our cloud setup became expensive and difficult to manage.”

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“We need someone technical to review our architecture and direction.”

Focus Areas

Where My Experience Concentrates

Depth across the areas that matter most when helping founders build, automate, and scale.

3 years

AI & Automation

AI-native products, agentic workflows, and intelligent automation in production.

Depth of experience3 / 15 yrs

10 years

Cloud & Architecture

AWS and GCP platforms, distributed systems, scalability, and cost optimization.

Depth of experience10 / 15 yrs

10 years

Management & Leadership

Engineering org design, delivery excellence, and technical strategy for growing teams.

Depth of experience10 / 15 yrs

4 startups

Startup Building

From zero to product — architecture, team building, and go-to-market execution.

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Core strength

15 years

Software Production Engineering

End-to-end delivery — CI/CD, reliability, developer experience, and shipping at scale.

Depth of experience15 / 15 yrs
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What Clients Say

Trusted by Founders and Engineering Leaders

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Behrouz helped us see where we were overbuilding before we had validated anything. That one conversation probably saved us six months of runway.

Co-founder, early-stage SaaS startup

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He did not sell us AI tools. He found the three workflows actually costing us time and built automations we could measure.

Head of Operations, 50-person SaaS team

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We needed a senior technical opinion without hiring a full-time VP. He gave us architecture clarity and a roadmap our team could execute.

CEO, Series A fintech

Start Small. Learn Fast. Improve What Matters.

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Discovery Conversation

I talk about your business, your team, your workflows, and where time or money is being wasted.

Identifies whether your next step is to build, automate, or scale.

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Opportunity Map

I identify where AI, automation, cloud improvement, or engineering changes could create real value.

Maps to one of three pillars — Build, Automate, or Scale — with a clear first move.

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Focused Implementation

I start with one clear problem, build or improve what is needed, and measure the result.

One measured outcome before expanding scope.

Current Thinking

Notes on AI adoption, automation, engineering productivity, cloud systems, and smarter ways of working.

Operations7 min read

The Hidden Cost of Waiting to Modernize Your Business

Delaying modernization carries its own cost. Lost productivity, frustrated employees, and slower innovation compound quietly over time, often outweighing the investment required to fix the problem.

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AI Strategy6 min read

AI Won't Replace Your Team. It Will Expose Your Bottlenecks.

AI is not replacing entire departments. It is exposing the inefficiencies companies have tolerated for years. The teams that win target bottlenecks, not jobs.

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AI Strategy6 min read

Why Most Companies Fail at AI Adoption

Most AI initiatives fail not because the technology is bad, but because companies buy tools before understanding problems. A look at why AI adoption stalls and what the companies that win do differently.

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Let's Find Where Your Company Can Work Smarter

No sales pitch. No complicated process. A practical 30-minute conversation about whether your next step is to build, automate, or scale — and what to do first.

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