Ashkan Bonakdar Shirazi

Chief Human Resources Officer of FANAP, and my boss from the beginning of 2025. Mohammad 🞶 made us familiar with each other so that he could help save me from the military service of Iran by working my time for them.

At first I was to create a simple learning system, but soon he trusted me with the full scale construction of 1285 🞶.

What I love about Ashkan is his vision for greatness. His way of naming the place 1285 instead of any techno name fascinated me from the start. Only a person with a great taste would name a new revolutionary place based on the year of Iran's intellectual revolution. He too has been fund of Xerox PARC and Bell Labs, so we naturally bounded. When Mohammad 🞶 and Mohammad Reza Vahedi left the project, our shared passion for a system without stress, tests, gamifications and such poured in and 1285 🞶 turned into a place for civilization experiment.

What I'm so grateful for serving under Ashkan is that he supported me to do "any" form of experiment and research I wished. He supported me before @shahab and made me shine there, he supported me and guarded me against anxieties that usually an employee has to provide for the employer but not showing me any sign of distress and allowing me to experiment and digging deeper. That has been such an amazing thing to have with someone.

The other notable thing about Ashkan is that he reminds me of my Dad 🞶. His office, his taste, there is something shared between the too. Perhaps that can be their systematic thinking, or aesthetical taste. What turned out early was that his father is a building regulation author, just like my father. Perhaps that explains a lot about this shared traits.