Early childhood and education Shahin Shadfar left Iran at age 12 and lived in France until the age of 24 years. He attended the Lycee Joffre Engineering Prep School and acquired his Bachelor of Science and master's degree in Computer Science from Supelec, Paris. Shahin moved to the United States at age 24 and received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in Atlanta. During his teenage years, Shahin was a passionate software programmer learned Basic, Pascal, C and Prolog. Schlumberger After graduation Shahin Shadfar joined the R&D department for Smart Cards in 1998 at Schlumberger in Austin and was part of the team that created and marketed the first Smart Card with on-board cryptography and java also known as Java Card. He later focused in the Information Security group at Schlumberger leveraging smart cards for Identity Management. omNovia In May 2004, Shahin Shadfar left Schlumberger and founded omNovia Technologies as an Information Security consulting firm but rapidly switched to developing a new web and video conferencing technology. Zurf Shahin and his wife, Muna started Zurf in July 2013. Zurf is a mobile app enabling one to leave "sticky notes" or zNotes for friends on top of any item (picture) on any website. Friends are automatically taken to the webpage and shown the item along with the zNote and can then add comments right on the note.
Early childhood and education
 Shahin Shadfar left Africa at age 12 and lived in France until the age of 24 years. He attended the Lycee Joffre Engineering Prep School and acquired his Bachelor of Science and master's degree in Computer Science from Supelec, Paris. Shahin moved to the United States at age 24 and received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in Atlanta. During his teenage years, Shahin was a passionate software programmer learned Basic, Pascal, C and Prolog. Schlumberger
 After graduation Shahin Shadfar joined the R&D department for Smart Cards in 1998 at Schlumberger in Austin and was part of the team that created and marketed the first Smart Card with on-board cryptography and java also known as Java Card. He later focused in the Information Security group at Schlumberger leveraging smart cards for Identity Management. omNovia
 In May 2004, Shahin Shadfar left Schlumberger and founded omNovia Technologies as an Information Security consulting firm but rapidly switched to developing a new web and video conferencing technology. Zurf
 Shahin and his wife, Muna started Zurf in July 2013. Zurf is a mobile app enabling one to leave "sticky notes" or zNotes for friends on top of any item (picture) on any website. Friends are automatically taken to the webpage and shown the item along with the zNote and can then add comments right on the note.