pooya@portfolio:~$ Pooya Eimandar — ./timeline --realtime

Born

Born on January 7.

First strokes

Started learning to swim.

Lifeguard certificate

Earned his lifeguard certificate.

Water polo

Joined the Shahid Shiroudi Stadium water polo club as a goalkeeper.

• Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

First hobby game

Programmed Snake, his first hobby game, in C.

A card game in C#

Programmed the card game Whist in C#.

Computer science and hardware engineering

Graduated from Shomal University. His thesis work simulated a CPU and mainboard with an FPGA and a lift-truck robot with an Atmel microcontroller.

• Shomal University

DirectX 11.1 Game Programming

Authored DirectX 11.1 Game Programming, a step-by-step guide to creating 3D applications and games with a multithreaded C++/CX and DirectX 11.1 framework for Windows Store apps.

• DirectX 11.1 Game Programming

DirectX Graphics Diagnostics

Published an article about DirectX Graphics Diagnostics on GameDev.net and Packt Hub.

• GameDev.net article
• Packt Hub article

A dedicated DirectX blog

Launched a companion blog for DirectX 11.1 Game Programming, helping experienced DirectX developers explore newer DirectX 11.x features.

University lecturer

Became a lecturer at the Iran University of Applied Science and Technology's National Foundation of Computer Games.

Iran Game Development Institute

Became a lecturer at the Iran Game Development Institute.

Learning Modern C++

Launched Learning Modern C++ for Game Programmers, a free, open-source self-study project for developers learning modern C++ through game programming.

Gaming in healthcare

Published Gaming in Healthcare at Iran's first Game and Medical Health conference.

• Gaming in Healthcare

IGDF jury panel

Joined the IGDF 2014 jury panel for Best Computer Games Technology.

Technical book reviewer

Reviewed Game Programming Using Qt: Beginner's Guide by Witold Wysota and Lorenz Haas, his second Packt book project after DirectX 11.1 Game Programming.

• Game Programming Using Qt

Technical reviewer — Rust for C++ Programmers

Served as technical reviewer for Rust for C++ Programmers by Mustafif Khan, published by BPB.

• Rust for C++ Programmers

Co-author of Integrating Rust

Co-authored Integrating Rust with Abhishek Kumar, a practical guide to adopting Rust for secure, scalable, and high-performance systems.

• Integrating Rust

Technical reviewer — Web Development in Rust

Served as technical reviewer for Web Development in Rust by Viktor Daróczi, published by BPB.

• Web Development in Rust

Persian Engine

Started developing his first in-house game engine, Persian Engine.

• Persian Engine archive

Safa

Joined Safa's development team as a Senior Silverlight Developer on Project Sara 8.

Founded BaziPardaz

Founded the independent BaziPardaz game studio to develop software, simulations, interactive games, and game-engine technology.

• BaziPardaz on Vimeo
• BaziPardaz on Facebook

The Land

Started a prototype of The Land, a third-person shooter built with Persian Engine.

Best technology award

Persian Engine was nominated for Best Computer Games Technology at Tehran's International Digital Media Festival and Fair and won the award.

Persian Engine on the web

Started porting Persian Engine to the Silverlight 5 platform.

The Master Chef

Started The Master Chef at BaziPardaz, an interactive game based on Kinect and Persian Engine.

• Watch The Master Chef

City2

Started City2, an online social-city simulation built with Persian Engine; its browser version used Silverlight 5.

• Watch City2

Persian Engine released

Published the final version of Persian Engine, including its editor, animation mixer, and Softimage FaceRobot integration.

• Persian Engine editor
• Persian Engine animation mixer
• Persian Engine and Softimage FaceRobot

Real-time playout and CG

Started developing real-time playout and CG-editor tools based on the MOS protocol, using C++, FFmpeg, and DirectX 11.1 with Blackmagic DeckLink capture, editing, and HD/SD playback.

• Watch the first playout version

Wolf Engine

Started the next generation of his in-house game engine, Wolf Engine.

• Wolf Engine

CEO of Wolf Source

Became CEO of Wolf Source, working across games, game engines, 3D tools, and television-broadcast technology.

• Wolf Source

Project Falcon

Joined Fanap as Project Manager of Project Falcon.

• Watch Project Falcon

PlayPod

He co-founded and led PlayPod, the first cloud-gaming console in Iran and the MENA. He began working on the idea in 2015, inspired by NVIDIA SHIELD and GeForce NOW: enabling gamers to play on any device, anytime and anywhere, through an internet connection and real-time streaming. He built the core technology in C++ based on his in-house game engine called Wolf Engine and brought PlayPod to Android, the web, iOS, and PC. The work began before Microsoft announced Project xCloud or Google announced Stadia, and PlayPod went on to reach gamers across Iran and the Middle East. He also developed a gpu partitioning system based on Wolf Engine, without requiring third-party GPU partitioning licenses, and his team scaled the platform across two data centers with at least 20+ servers and 90+ GPUs. Guided by a ‘less is more’ philosophy, he kept the architecture focused: backend services used Facebook's Proxygen for HTTP/2/3; streaming evolved from RTSP and TCP to SRT and WebRTC; and the cross-platform streaming core was written in C using the Apache Portable Runtime (APR). The applications shared a single Qt codebase, allowing a team of just two C++ developers, including him, to build the entire technology stack. The team later began migrating the stack from C++ to Rust—a transition that gave rise to an open source project called Sib.

• PlayPod
• Wolf Engine
• Sib

Co-Founder & CEO at Alpha

Co-founded Alpha as CEO to build cloud, GPU, AI, cloud-gaming, enterprise-software, and metaverse infrastructure and products.

• Alpha

Co-Founder of Arium

Co-founded Arium, a cloud-gaming platform for peer-to-peer duels.

• Arium

Exited Arium

Exited Arium in 2025.

• Arium

Alpha technology milestones

Stepped down as CEO of Alpha after steering the company to its first profit. During Pooya's leadership, Alpha was recognized by Iran's Vice Presidency as a knowledge-based company, delivered a digital twin for Bank Pasargad's central branch named PodVerse, and built and scaled GPU-partitioning infrastructure to allocate GPUs to PlayPod and other GPU-based projects.

• Alpha

Fellow at PlayPod

He then became a Fellow at PlayPod. Since 2018, PlayPod has served more than one million Iranian gamers, was selected among the top candidates for Fit 4 Start Luxembourg in 2020, and was named the top product at the fifth Iranian Product Innovation Leaders Festival at Sharif University of Technology (Aryamehr).

• PlayPod

Sib

Developed Sib, an open-source Rust library of cross-platform modules for real-time streaming, low-latency networking, scalable HTTP services, and WebGPU rendering.

• Sib on GitHub

WebGPU examples

Built a collection of Rust/WebGPU examples based on Sib's render module, adapting Sascha Willems' Vulkan samples for native applications and WebAssembly.

• WebGPU

AINU

Joined AINU Tech Source and established the company's vision as well as its technical foundations from scratch to launch AINU Capital and other upcoming projects.

• AINU Capital