Welcome to my readme, I am glad you are here. I hope this information helps us to work more effectively together.
I am an athlete, adventure-seeker and I love traveling. I grew up in Iran, lived in the Uk for six years and then moved to the US. I am proud to call these three countries my home.
Weekends or after work you can find me:
- In nature running, cycling, swimming or skiing.
- Traveling.
- Attending a conference/meet-up.
- Spending time with friends, colleagues or family.
- Sitting in a coffee shop and reading/learning & trying to be better at what I do.
- Checking things off my bucket list.
I love good food, but good company is more important to me. I only cook Persian food if I have more than six friends over especially if it is Ghormeh Sabzi.
I am a big believer of work-life balance, it is hard to respond to emails or slack messages when I am skiing, cycling or traveling outside of work hours(~0800 to ~1800).
If it is urgent, feel free to call me anytime.
I do not expect my team to work during the weekend or respond to my messages.
All of this is just for me contacting you, not being on-call or being paged for production outages.
- Respect and value diversity.
- Be approachable.
- Be an internal consultant and challenge existing decisions & process.
- Believe that everyone in the team does their best with the knowledge, abilities, and resources.
- Everyone has equal voice and vote regardless of their seniority.
- Follow team agreements:
- Guidelines used by the team to describe how they want to work together.
- We try to review our agreements quarterly or when we have a new team member join.
- Our current team agreements.
- Create a positive working environment.
- Help my team to achieve their personal & professional goals.
- Make sure we give and receive productive feedback.
- Be an umbrella
- Promote my team members and celebrate their success.
- Represent our team to the organization.
- Work with other managers/leaders to come up with a long-term vision.
- Manage cross-project priorities.
- Initiate organizational transformation.
- Help to improve company culture.
- Attract & retain positive, motivated & diverse talents.
- Be a good representative of our values.
Working on the same project? Or not? If you need help, want to validate an idea or if you feel I can do my job better come and talk to me. I am a big believer in mentorship. Mentorship is a two-way street, we all need to have a mentor regardless of our experience.
Seeking out a mentor/mentee? Let's grab a coffee.
- It is for you.
- It is not status update unless you want it to be.
We will have regularly scheduled 1:1s.
My calendar is publicly visible, feel free to schedule one.
Blocked & cannot find a slot? Come and talk to me or send me a message I will try to schedule a time.
Please be on time and provide the following in the meeting invite:
- Meeting agenda.
- Location (meeting room or a link for remote meetings).
- Any related documents.
- Be the best at what you do.
- Bring your whole self to work.
- Ask for help if you need it.
- Help your teammates.
- Give a precise status update about tasks in progress.
- Be better than me.
- Challenge me and let me know if I can make your life easier.
I will try and:
- Remove blockers.
- Give or find context.
- Find the right person to help you.
I can not help you without getting to know you or you talking to me.
Some team building sessions helped me in the past to know my team, their day to day challenges and motivations, sessions like: