About Me

I was born in the 1960’s in Tehran, Iran. As a young adult who believed in the Baha’i Faith, meant that I was lucky to be alive and shouldn’t have bothered the Islamic government for permission to attend university. In 1986 I decided that I’ve had enough and wanted to leave my fatherland, however as a Baha’i I could not get a passport. I had to escape the country through the assistance of a smuggler. He helped me cross the border into Pakistan. I had no papers and my only hope was to be recognized as a refugee by the UNHCR, the United Nations’ agency for refugees.

The two years that I lived in Lahore, Pakistan, while financially difficult times, were some of the best years of my life (thanks to the Islamic Republic!). I was among 2000 other Iranian Baha’i youth all awaiting asylum from any of the number of countries who had opened their doors to us, including Australia, Canada and the United States. My brother and I landed at the San Francisco airport in June 1988 with only $70 between the two of us.

I had no time to waste, so I began studying at Modesto Junior College immediately and later transferred to California State University, Chico where I finally received a degree in Computer Science in 1994.

After a few years at Microsoft Corporation working on PowerPoint, I left to start Autoweb.com, an online car buying service, with my brother. Autoweb eventually went public and I left a few months later to start Caspio.

The idea behind Caspio was a simple one. Companies of all sizes are wasting enormous amount of energy and resources to build web forms, searchable databases and all sorts of internal and external facing apps, by coding them one-line-at-a-time. I personally made many of them at Pacific Bell, Microsoft, Autoweb, and few other companies.

We decided that we can replace this type of time consuming mundane programming with a highly efficient point-and-click system. Also, to simplify things further, we included the database as an integrated part of the platform, so when a user builds and app, her database is already connected and is ready to be deployed.

Our goal is to empower business users with the ability to create their own web forms, searchable databases and web apps quickly, without programming and independent from IT departments. We made sure the apps built on Caspio work with any web site, hosted anywhere. And we ensured that these apps can scale up to support as many users as necessary.

Caspio was born in 2000 and our flagship product, Caspio Bridge, was released in 2001. To my immense gratitude we received excellent support from business users and hard core developers alike, to the extent that today we serve a large number of customers in the United States and over 30 other countries.

As for me, I cannot ask for a better job. Caspio is my passion and serving our customers and seeing them succeed is my daily source of fulfillment and energy. Seeing our customers use Caspio Bridge to bring their vision to life is the best pay back I can ever ask for.

We have just scratched the surface in what we can bring to our customers. We’re now warmed up. The excitement is about to begin!