Engineering Leader · Solutions Engineering · Professional Services

I build engineering organizations that make revenue predictable.

Fourteen years leading customer-facing technical teams across enterprise SaaS. I connect engineering depth, delivery discipline, and commercial accountability to create faster time-to-value, stronger margins, and durable customer outcomes.

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15 → 50+

Engineers across three regions

$2.1M → $4.8M

Services revenue in 18 months

90 → 14 days

Customer onboarding cycle

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Cross-Company Results

Engineering leadership, measured in business outcomes.

The result is not operational theater. It is a technical organization that customers trust, teams can scale, and the business can forecast.

LogicMonitor

96%

Customer satisfaction, enterprise delivery

Firstup

+42%

Services gross-margin improvement

Firstup

95%

Customer retention, platform transition

SHI

$10M+

Current solution-practice pipeline across 130 commercial accounts

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Selected Transformations

Operating changes with measurable business outcomes.

Organization

LogicMonitor

Operating Change

Scaling a global technical organization without sacrificing delivery quality

Scaled Professional Services and Solutions Engineering from 15 to 50+ engineers across three regions. Built a Center of Excellence around packaged deliverables, reusable implementation code, modular statements of work, and margin discipline.

Measured Results

  • $2.1M→$4.8MServices revenue
  • 90→14 daysCustomer onboarding
  • 75%Fewer escalations
  • 96%Customer satisfaction
  • 70%+Services gross margin
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Organization

Firstup

Operating Change

Turning a loss-making services function into a stable global organization

Led post-acquisition delivery stabilization, platform migration, team expansion, and services operating discipline across North America, EMEA, and APAC.

Measured Results

  • 8→22Consultants
  • +42%Gross-margin improvement
  • $4M+ARR protected
  • 95%Customer retention
  • 20%→85%Migration adoption
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Organization

SHI

Operating Change

Building solution-engineering capacity around commercial growth

Currently leads two solution-engineering teams supporting 130 commercial accounts and a $10M+ solution-practice pipeline.

Measured Results

  • $10M+Solution-practice pipeline
  • 130Commercial accounts covered
  • 2Solution-engineering teams
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The Operating Approach

Diagnose before changing. Stabilize before scaling.

Sustainable transformation starts with context. Farjad's approach creates clarity around demand, capacity, margin, customer risk, and cross-functional ownership before introducing structural change.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Listen, map, and establish the operating baseline.

  2. 02

    Stabilize

    Clarify governance, handoffs, metrics, and immediate risks.

  3. 03

    Scale

    Codify playbooks, develop leaders, and create repeatable operating rhythms.

In Practice

Every engagement begins with listening: documenting what teams actually do today before proposing what should change.

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Trusted across the organization.

Farjad possesses the rare ability to go extremely deep into the details with his team and can also communicate those same details in a way where executives can understand.

Shazad Brohi

Engineering Leader

Farjad is an amazing asset to any company. He helped us build an incredible and world class organization at LogicMonitor.

Hass Johnson

Regional Vice President, Enterprise, LogicMonitor

His chief priority was his team’s development and customer health. He never said we couldn’t, he said how can we.

Ryan Reynolds

Operations Team Lead

Thought Leadership

Frameworks for technical organizations at scale.

Scaling

Scaling Customer-Facing Technical Teams from 15 to 50+ Without Quality Collapse

A delivery-first framework for growing a customer-facing technical organization without sacrificing quality, margin, or engineering standards.

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Publication

The Executive’s Guide to Large Language Models

Practical guidance for business leaders navigating large-language-model adoption.

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Operations

Why Services Margin Erodes at Scale—and How to Fix It

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Framework

The Revenue Org Maturity Model

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Strategy

Time-to-Value Compression: The Overlooked Growth Lever in Enterprise SaaS

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About

An engineer’s view of organizational leadership.

Farjad builds the operating infrastructure behind customer-facing technical organizations. Across fourteen years, he has led teams through periods of growth, post-acquisition change, platform transition, and delivery transformation—connecting technical standards and people development to customer and commercial outcomes.

He works at the intersection of engineering, delivery, and revenue: close enough to the technology to challenge assumptions, and broad enough to translate execution into decisions executives can act on.

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  • Education

    B.S. Computer Engineering, Michigan State University

  • Certification

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

  • Location

    Based in Austin, Texas

  • Author

    Author of The Executive’s Guide to Large Language Models

  1. LogicMonitor

    2015–2022

  2. Firstup

    2022–2023

  3. 4me

    2023–2024

  4. Augmentry.ai

    2024–2025

  5. SHI

    2024–Present

Complex growth becomes manageable when the engineering system is designed to scale.

If your customer-facing technical organization is approaching an inflection point, let’s discuss the leadership system required for its next stage.

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