Engineering leader · SRE · MBA candidate
I’m Yashar Nesabian. I lead engineering teams responsible for critical systems, creating the clarity, operating discipline, and business alignment needed to scale with confidence.
Current focus
My focus is the management layer where engineering judgment becomes organizational capability: clear priorities, accountable teams, resilient operating models, and investment decisions tied to business outcomes.
About
My technical background gives me the depth to challenge assumptions and understand risk. My role as a manager is broader: set direction, develop people, create useful constraints, and make the quality of decision-making scale beyond any one person.
I value direct communication, explicit ownership, evidence over ceremony, and operating rhythms that help teams surface problems early. Reliability matters because trust matters—to customers, colleagues, and the business.
Leadership priorities
01 · Direction
Turning broad company priorities into a coherent engineering agenda with explicit tradeoffs and measurable outcomes.
02 · Organization
Creating the context, boundaries, and feedback loops that let engineers make strong decisions independently.
03 · Operations
Managing operational risk through standards, learning loops, and investment—not heroics.
04 · Business
Connecting technical choices to cost, customer trust, strategic options, and long-term business value.
05 · Transformation
Introducing AI where it improves judgment, throughput, and organizational learning—with clear human accountability.
Writing
I write to make my thinking more precise—about engineering leadership, resilient organizations, AI-enabled work, finance, strategy, and the systems that shape durable businesses.
Open blog.yasharne.meReading / library
Systems, physics, engineering leadership, finance, business strategy, political economy, and biographies of people who built durable things.
Infrastructure, company building, distributed systems, economics, finance, and long-form conversations with technical operators.
Operational postmortems, architecture notes, business essays, political/economic ideas, and writing with enough detail to be useful.
Resume / CV
Role: SRE Engineering Manager
Education direction: MBA student with active interests in finance, business strategy, and entrepreneurship.
Core domains: cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability engineering, Terraform, Kubernetes, observability, distributed systems, AI skills, finance, and business systems.
Direction: technical leadership, platform strategy, business-aware engineering, and opportunities beyond traditional IT job boundaries.