Hamed
Ahmadi

The long route from Tehran to San Francisco to building Medsien

Ahmadi studied mathematics at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, then moved to the University of Tehran for his master's degree. From there he landed at the University of Central Florida, where his dissertation tackled quantum phase estimation - specifically, how to make quantum algorithms work with arbitrary constant-precision phase shift operators. The research earned 22 citations in Quantum Information & Computation.

Then Silicon Valley happened. As a founding engineer at MobileDevHQ in 2012, he worked on one of the earliest App Store Optimization tools for mobile app publishers. That company was acquired by TUNE, which was later acquired by Constellation Software. He moved to 500friends as a senior software engineer, helping 50+ top omnichannel retailers drive customer lifetime value - 500friends was subsequently acquired by Merkle, and then Dentsu. Swiftype followed, then ZeroCater in 2016 as lead software engineer.

The pattern across that decade: join early, build product at scale, watch the company get acquired, and repeat. By 2018, Ahmadi and Torabi had identified a market that had not yet had its Swiftype moment. Healthcare's remote care programs - Chronic Care Management, Remote Patient Monitoring, Transitional Care Management - were reimbursable by CMS but operationally complex enough that most practices didn't run them. Medsien would do the running for them.

What Medsien actually does - and why it matters

Medsien is not a telemedicine platform. It is an infrastructure layer for the care programs that CMS has been reimbursing for years but that most practices cannot operationalize. Chronic Care Management. Remote Patient Monitoring. Transitional Care Management. Principal Care Management. Remote Therapeutic Monitoring. Annual Wellness Visits. Advanced Primary Care Management. Each has billing codes, documentation requirements, care partner certifications, and EHR workflows. Medsien handles all of it.

The platform identifies which patients qualify for which programs using AI, integrates with the practice's EHR, coordinates outreach through a team of certified multilingual care partners, tracks patient data in real time, and automates billing and compliance reporting. A practice that could not previously run any remote care program can be live in five days.

Medsien operates as a 100% remote company, with staff distributed across the United States and Turkey. Its care partners speak multiple languages - a deliberate choice for serving underserved populations, rural communities, and patients whose first language is not English. Its Chief Scientific Officer, Sara Ahmadi-Abhari, rounds out the founding team alongside COO Sina Torabi.

The company's values - Trust, Harmony, Empathy - read less like corporate branding and more like a deliberate counter-statement to how healthtech has often been built: fast, frictionless, but not especially human. Medsien's people-first language is baked into its product philosophy as much as its culture deck.

From Tehran to quantum computing to Silicon Valley

Ahmadi's academic path ran from Tehran to Orlando, and from pure mathematics to the theoretical foundations of quantum computing. His UCF dissertation, "Quantum Algorithms For: Quantum Phase Estimation, Approximation Of The Tutte Polynomial And Black-box Structures," covered three distinct problems in quantum complexity theory. The first paper alone - on quantum phase estimation with constant-precision phase shift operators, co-authored with Chiang - earned 22 citations.

What the CV does not explain is the leap from quantum algorithms to app store rankings to remote care management. Each pivot followed the same logic: where is the operational bottleneck, and can software remove it? Mobile app discovery was opaque - MobileDevHQ built transparency. Enterprise search was slow - Swiftype built speed. Remote care was inaccessible to most practices - Medsien built the infrastructure.

The details that don't fit a standard bio

Ahmadi published papers on the quantum complexity of the Tutte polynomial before he ever wrote production code. The Tutte polynomial is a graph invariant - a way of counting the structural properties of networks. It is, in retrospect, a useful thing to understand before you spend a decade building interconnected software systems.

He was an early engineer at MobileDevHQ in 2012, when the App Store was three years old and nobody quite knew how discovery would work for mobile apps. The company built tools that helped developers understand how their apps ranked. It was acquired twice. Ahmadi moved on each time.

The Ferrum Network advisory role in 2018 - a blockchain company focused on DeFi and cross-chain services - coincided with the year he also founded Medsien. Blockchain's promise of decentralized infrastructure, healthcare's need for distributed care networks: the interest in connected systems runs through the whole arc.

Medsien's corporate values are Trust, Harmony, and Empathy. They are also the operating principles of a care partner who calls a patient with congestive heart failure every week for a year. The overlap is not accidental.