Arash Milani

Hey, I'm Arash. I am passionate about designing and building products, and I love building teams that actually work. The pull is old: as a kid I tore toys apart to see how they worked, then built my own.

I'm currently an Engineering Manager at Ayvens in Amsterdam, leading the Digital Showroom team. A team of 10 software engineers across Europe and Asia that, together with design and product teams, is responsible for improving the experience of finding the right car for individuals and businesses.

I've made software products, podcasts, teams and companies. I've spoken at events, and organized a good number of them too, along with communities around engineers and startups. Back in the pre-LLM days I crowd-translated a couple of books into Persian, one of them with 85 people each taking a couple of pages to translate and review.

I can sit at my desk for hours and look, from the outside, like I'm working. I'm really just enjoying the game of creating, improving and learning.