LINE OPEN / SAN DIEGO, CA /

You've reached Sohrab Sheikhani.
I lead the engineering behind the modern contact center.

Co-founder and CTO of Aloware, an AI-driven phone system embedded in the CRM. I built the team, the architecture, and most of the early code. I still write the code.

YOU PRESSED1/ WHAT I LEAD

A cloud contact center for revenue teams, native inside the CRM.

Calling, texting, and AI voice agents inside HubSpot and other CRMs. I own the technical direction end to end: telephony, media, AI, and the platform underneath.

  • FOUNDED2017, bootstrapped to profitability. Pre-Series A and cash-flow positive
  • SCALE1,000+ companies running their daily call and SMS volume on the platform
  • AIAI-first since 2023: SMS bots, autonomous voice agents, and AI receptionists in production
  • TEAMDistributed engineering org across the US, LATAM, and Europe. Remote since day one

How I work: hands-on. I set architecture, review code, and take on-call. Small senior teams over large ones, buy the boring and build the edge, and bet early on new primitives. Real-time voice AI, LLM agents, and MCP were side projects here before they were roadmap items.

YOU PRESSED2/ OPEN SOURCE

Noise cancellation that never leaves your server.

livekit-plugins-dtln is self-hosted noise cancellation for LiveKit, released by Aloware. In-process ONNX inference at ~8ms latency, no cloud calls, MIT licensed. A free alternative to LiveKit Cloud + Krisp.

$ pip install livekit-plugins-dtln

YOU PRESSED3/ STILL SHIPPING

Small things, built end to end.

Nights and weekends I ship complete little tools. It keeps my judgment calibrated when I'm reviewing someone else's design doc.

YOU PRESSED4/ CONNECT

The line is open.

Always happy to talk to engineers who want to work on real-time voice AI. We're hiring.