Kian spent his entire teenage years dreaming of becoming a civil engineer, only to realize that his grades were not good enough to get into any of the top universities of his hometown Tehran (Iran) in civil engineering, so he settled for the next best thing at the time: Software Engineering. And in his words "oh boy, I am grateful for this twist of destiny".

In 2017, he left Iran for a brighter future and to do a Master's degree in Amsterdam on Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems. In the middle of this degree, he started to get interested in blockchains as a novel form of distributed systems. Soon after, he joined Parity Technologies to work on Substrate, and later on Polkadot. His interest in this field has only ever increased since then. He's currently an Engineering Lead at Parity Technologies, a member of the Polkadot fellowship and working on "GrayMatter", as a JAM implementation team member.