Reza Salmanian

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// About

Who I am

I'm a full-stack software engineer and systems architect who spends most of my time on systems that sit at the center of a business — the platforms finance, sales, and operations teams depend on every day. My work spans full-stack engineering, secure API design, and, increasingly, AI systems that reason across a whole business rather than a single feature.

I care most about the layer where technical decisions become business outcomes: how a data model shapes what a company can report on, how a permissions design determines what an AI assistant is allowed to see, how a deployment strategy affects how confidently a team can ship. That's the work I enjoy most — and the reason I founded CBSai, where I own the architecture and full-stack delivery of a multi-tenant SaaS platform end to end, rather than just one layer of it.

How I think as an engineer

I start from the business problem, not the technology. Before proposing an architecture, I want to understand what the system needs to be true in a year — how many tenants, what compliance requirements, what happens when a module needs to change independently of the others. Decisions that are cheap to reverse (a button placement, a component structure) I move fast on. Decisions that are expensive to reverse (a data model, a tenancy boundary, a permissions design) I slow down for.

What problems I enjoy solving

Systems where multiple domains have to work together without becoming tangled — a CRM that shares data with dispatch, a payroll system that has to be both flexible and audit-proof, an AI layer that has to reason across modules without bypassing the permissions each of them enforces. The common thread is designing boundaries: what belongs together, what needs to stay separate, and how information should flow between the two.

Engineering philosophy & core values

Product Ownership

I treat every system I build as a product I'm accountable for, not a ticket I'm closing. That means understanding who uses it and why, not just what the spec says.

Architecture-First Mindset

The decisions that are expensive to reverse — data models, module boundaries, tenancy — get resolved before implementation, not discovered during it.

Business-First Engineering

Technology choices follow the business problem, not the other way around. The best architecture is the one that fits the constraint in front of you.

Building Maintainable Software

Code is read far more often than it's written. I optimize for the engineer who inherits the system next — including future me.

Long-Term Thinking

I weigh decisions against where a system needs to be in two years, not just whether it works this sprint.