Mehdi Shabestari
Twenty years in the layers most people never see — telecom switches, enterprise networks, datacenters, cloud platforms — and now the layer where those all become someone's product.
- Technical Product Manager
- Cloud & AI infrastructure
- Tehran · working internationally
- Persian, English
The short version
I'm Mehdi. Since 2022 I've been a technical product manager for cloud services at a global-scale cloud provider, working on products that serve hundreds of thousands of users. Before that: cloud engineering and NOC leadership, voice and NGN infrastructure, network engineering, technical support, and — starting in 2007 — VoIP administration. I climbed the whole stack, and now I decide what gets built on top of it.
Why that path matters
Product management borrowed from infrastructure tends to over-promise; engineering without product sense builds elegant systems nobody asked for. I sit on the bridge deliberately. The NOC taught me what a broken promise costs. Support taught me how failure actually feels from the outside. Telecom taught me that reliability is a feature, decades before cloud marketing said so. The product work is where all of that becomes decisions.
The longer version
My first computer ran Windows 95, and Norton Commander was the first interface that felt like mine. Before networking there were analog systems — the kind you fix with your hands. An Ubuntu CD that arrived by international post opened Linux to me; years later, the same class of problem I solve with terraform apply is the one that CD started.
The career in one line: 2007 VoIP administration at Tel4Tel; 2011 technical support at FCP; 2012 network engineer, then VoIP expert and manager at FCP through 2018, working on NGN and Cisco voice infrastructure; 2019 cloud engineer and system administrator; 2020 NOC team lead; 2022 to present, technical product management for cloud services. I studied Information Technology at the University of Applied Science and Technology.
Beyond work
I keep a three-thousand-year timeline of the technology that made this career possible — the Humanity section of this site, with 115 events from the alphabet to packet switching. The Ideas section holds the thinkers who sharpened the questions I enjoy most, and Mind is a small breathing space — uptime for humans. History of computing, Persian poetry, and whatever the footnotes lead to are usually on the nightstand.
How to reach me
The shortest path is the contact page — GitHub reaches me directly. I read everything and I answer.
Nothing on this site is tracked, profiled or sold. Read it the way it was built: slowly, and in one piece.