Sam Akhavan is a highly skilled software engineer with extensive experience in leading technical initiatives, particularly at Meta, where Sam served as a Staff Software Engineer and later as a Senior Software Engineer, both roles focused on overseeing the development of Iris, a real-time distributed pub/sub queueing service. Sam's experience includes project management at Penn Labs, internships at reputable companies such as JPMorgan Chase & Co., Activision, and Facebook, and co-founding The ANA Project Prep. Academic achievements include a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, complemented by multiple teaching assistant roles in computer science courses.