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Short, opinionated writing on product, AI and engineering, alongside peer-reviewed publications and academic work.

Articles

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What Five Years of Writing Code Taught Me About Product

I wrote code for five years before I moved into product. The code mattered less than the habits it left me, and one of them I had to unlearn fast.

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Shadow AI Isn't a Security Problem. It's a Roadmap Failure.

17% of healthcare staff admit using unapproved AI and 41% have watched a colleague do it. That isn't a discipline problem. Your sanctioned tool lost on speed.

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The Model Isn't the Product. The Verification Layer Is.

A pose model logs 15 clean squats on a knee that's caving. The FDA has authorized well over 1,400 AI-enabled devices. The scarce part was never the model.

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Why Operating Across Regulatory Regimes Is a Product Design Problem

Most teams treat multi-jurisdiction compliance as a legal layer bolted on at the end. The ones that get it right build it into the architecture from day one.

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Why Most Product Metrics Dashboards Tell You What Already Happened

Most dashboards are autopsies dressed up as strategy. By the time the number moves, the decision that caused it is weeks old. What to measure instead.

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The Gap Between Health Tech Demos and What Clinics Actually Deploy

Investors see dashboards. Patients see waiting rooms. What I've seen building AI across 15+ clinics in three countries, and why the gap keeps widening.

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Why Most Sprint Reviews Are a Ceremony Without a Consequence

Sprint reviews are supposed to close the feedback loop between what the team built and what the product needs. Most close nothing. The pattern and the fix.

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When Your AI Agent Gets It Wrong

Everyone is deploying AI agents. Almost nobody has decided who owns the call when one gets it wrong. The accountability gap and how to close it.

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Why Most Product Roadmaps Are Theater

Most roadmaps aren't operating documents. They're performance artifacts that satisfy stakeholders and freeze the team's thinking. The cost and the fix.

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Research

research2024

The Role of Fintech in Shaping Risk-Taking Behaviors in EU Banks

GISMA University, Master’s Thesis

Award-winning Master’s thesis (97/100). Empirical investigation of 34 major EU banks analyzing how FinTech innovations impact bank stability through AI-powered risk management and blockchain.

Best Thesis 2024
research2018

Heart Disease Diagnosis using Machine Learning

Sharif University of Technology, BSc Project

Applied ML and Data Mining methods to predict human heart attacks using health data. Under supervision of Prof. A. M. A. Hemmatyar.

Publications

publication2026

Strategic Crowdsourcing: Frameworks, Challenges, and Impact in the Digital Economy

IntechOpen

Book chapter in "Crowdsourcing: Innovations in Digital Collaboration" (IntechOpen). Co-authored research on crowdsourcing typologies, AI-driven innovation and platform governance.

publication2024

Blockchain in Environmental Conservation

Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

Book chapter in "Applications of Blockchain and Computational Intelligence in Environmental Sustainability". Co-authored research on supply chain transparency, recycling incentives and P2P energy trading.

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Open to research collaborations, speaking invitations, and co-authoring opportunities in AI, product, and FinTech.