A resident of California, Zia Shlaimoun has worked in the tech industry all of his professional life. In his first professional role, Zia Shlaimoun served as a research and development engineer with IBM Hursley in the UK back in the late eighties, where he worked as part of a collaborative team that created new technologies and products. Later, he joined Data Dynamics, a technology company in the UK, as a product engineer, where he supported the development, marketing, and sales of the company’s multi-user micro system platform.