# Behzad Aghaei

> Design at Meta

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/behzad

I’ve been doing what I love for over 15 years - building great products from scratch by working with brilliant people. I obsess over both pixels and strategy.

These products are cumulatively used by billions of humans to learn and connect.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2017 – Present | Menlo Park, CA
Product design lead for account management across  Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and more.
Design systems and analytics tools

### User Experience Designer @ Apple
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Cupertino, California
Swift Playgrounds app, concept-to-launch
iPadOS keyboard flick keys
Xcode

### User Experience Consultant @ Freelance
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
UX design for healthcare and enterprise clients

### Product Architect @ Communitech
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Waterloo, Ontario
UX design of both consumer and enterprise apps on native mobile & desktop

### Human Factors Researcher @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Advanced Interface Design Lab
R&D of adaptive user interface using mobile biosensors for Blackberry
Experimenter & supervisor of multi-modal interface study on psychophysiological vigilance

### Systems Design Engineer (Co-op) @ MDA Space Missions
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Architecture of concept surgical robot
Vibration-analysis algorithms to assist in force-torque data processing
Telecom and vibration detection research

### Conceptual Product Designer (Industrial Design) (Co-op) @ BlackBerry
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Waterloo, Canada
R&D of concept handheld and wearable devices - industrial design and interaction design

### Product Design Engineer  (Co-op) @ PV Labs
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Engineering analysis of airborne camera stabilization systems

### Engineering Courseware Developer (Co-op) @ Rand Worldwide
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006
Developed instructions for advanced 3D CAD (part, surfacing, and assembly)


## Education
### MASc in Systems Design Engineering - HCI/Human Factors
University of Waterloo
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### BASc in Honours Mechanical Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2005 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/behzadaghaei

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Last updated: 2026-03-30