Team
Mehdi Arani
Farid Farahmand, PhD
Farid Farahmand, PhD
CEO & Co-Founder
Mr. Arani completed his graduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2005. He has 15 years of experience in medical device commercialization and product management, both in clinical and consumer healthcare markets. Mr. Aranihas launched technologies in Neuro-Rehab, Orthopedic, ENT surgery, and IoT patient monitoring.
Farid Farahmand, PhD
Farid Farahmand, PhD
Farid Farahmand, PhD
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Farid Farahmand leads the software and hardware teams at Tidal Medical. He began his career working at what is now Alcatel-Lucent. His last position at Alcatel was research scientist, working on future terabit optical networks. Farid has multiple patents and many technical and educational publications, as well as several book chapters. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently a professor at Sonoma State University, CA.
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Alex Farahmand, MD
Farid Farahmand, PhD
Alex Farahmand, MD
Co-Founder & President
Alex Farahmand, MD is Board Certified in Family Medicine with fellowship training in Emergency Medicine. He has over 5 years of experience as Director of Emergency Medicine for many ERs in Texas. Dr. Farahmand is himself a medical entrepreneur and owns an urgent care chain.
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Hasan Kakli, MD
Roberto Medina Bujalance
Alex Farahmand, MD
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Hasan Kakli, MD graduated from medical school in 2009 and has training in surgery, family medicine and hospice/palliative care. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Palliative Care. Dr. Kakli has experience as a regional medical director for a large physician staffing agency. He also serves as Director of Emergency Medicine for a number of ERs in the greater Houston area.
Roberto Medina Bujalance
Roberto Medina Bujalance
Roberto Medina Bujalance
Head of Engineering
Roberto is the Head of Engineering at Tidal Medical Technologies. He specializes in hardware design and embedded systems. With over 12 years of experience, Roberto has been involved in deploying various advanced
projects in the Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless sensor networks (WSN). In 2015 Roberto founded Sosteco, a consulting company helping cities and businesses make the best of new technological opportunities.
Chris Bornmann
Roberto Medina Bujalance
Roberto Medina Bujalance
Director of Cloud Architecture
Chris is the Director of Cloud Architecture at Tidal. He has worked with development teams and application owners for over 15 years helping them to move to cloud-based architectures. He also spent some years working for Amazon AWS. During his free time, Chris teaches graduate courses, including Cloud Computing.
Roel Hernandez Chaudary
Roel Hernandez Chaudary
Roel Hernandez Chaudary
Database Engineer
Roel Hernandez received his master's in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Sonoma State University in California.
He has several years as Database Administrator and IT architecture deployment.
His areas of interest are Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Robotic and Machine Learning. Roel is also an avid runner.