Hesam (Sam) Samimi is a computer scientist, programming languages expert, software engineer, and a full-stack web & mobile app developer. Though he recently returned to the software industry, he spent nearly a decade (2017-2025) primarily focusing on project-based curriculum development and teaching of computer science and software development at the secondary school and career prep levels, as well as on online platforms. Before discovering his passion at the crossroads of coding and teaching, he spent seven years during and after his Ph.D. studies at UCLA as a programming languages researcher, focusing on the application of artificial intelligence in programming and software development.