Shahin (Shawn) Shadfar

Shahin (Shawn) Shadfar (Persian: شاهین‌ شادفر; born 1973 in Tehran[1] - died in 2018 in California[2]) was a Persian-American entrepreneur.

Shahin moved to the United States at age 24 and received a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

During his teenage years, Shahin was a passionate software programmer learned Basic, Pascal, C and Prolog.

He later focused in the Information Security group at Schlumberger leveraging smart cards for Identity Management.

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