The lab

The people behind the work.

A small, senior team. The same people you read here are the ones you’ll meet on the call and the ones who’ll be on the engagement.

4: people, small by design
100%: named on every engagement
EU: based, contracting from NL

Erfan Besharat
Founder & Director
Erfan founded the lab and runs it day to day. His background is in distributed systems and infrastructure, and he leads enterprise engagements end-to-end: scoping, architecture, delivery.
- AWS
- GCP
- Linux
- Go
- TypeScript
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Mahdi Pourismaiel
Head of Engineering
Mahdi has been building software for more than a decade, across frontend, backend, and the boring middle. He leads engineering on the lab's longer-running engagements and maintains several of the open-source tools the team relies on.
- React
- Vue
- NestJS
- Go
- TypeScript
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Mahzyar Erfani
Frontend Engineering
Mahzyar leads the lab's frontend work. He is unusually careful about the details users feel but rarely articulate: motion timings, focus states, the way a page settles after it loads. Comfortable across React, Vue, Svelte, and Next.js.
- React
- Vue
- Svelte
- Next.js
- TypeScript
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Mojtaba NickiJack
Design
Mojtaba is the lab's designer, working across interfaces, motion, and brand. He has spent more than five years on product and identity work and brings the kind of taste that quietly decides whether software feels considered or careless.
- Figma
- After Effects
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Premier
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