core profile

Ramin Tahbaz (rah-MEEN) is a Washington, DC–based design engineer whose work spans software, physical products, brand, film, and communications. He brings together the judgment to set a company’s design direction and the technical ability to build it himself.

At Atalanta, Ramin owns design across the company. His scope includes product design, design engineering, brand identity, industrial design, print, film, and communications. He connects how the company builds, looks, sounds, and explains its work, carrying a coherent vision from strategy through the details of execution.

company-wide design ownership

Ramin operates across disciplines and levels of detail. He defines direction, establishes the design language, shapes product experiences, and builds interfaces. His work extends into physical objects, printed materials, film, and company communications.

He takes responsibility for how these pieces work together. Product behavior, visual identity, language, and storytelling all contribute to how people understand a company and trust its technology. His role brings these decisions into a shared design direction.

His breadth allows him to take an ambiguous problem, determine what it needs, and work in the medium best suited to solving it.

Argo and mathematical AI

Ramin works on Argo, Atalanta’s software understanding platform. Argo combines AI, formal methods, and digital engineering to help teams reason about complex systems and verify that specified requirements hold. Its applications include safety, resilience, and security across energy, space, and defense.

His work addresses the design challenge of making mathematical AI understandable and usable: organizing complex workflows, shaping interactions, and helping people interpret technical information in the context of consequential decisions.

Alongside Argo, Ramin leads the broader design work that communicates Atalanta’s technology, purpose, and identity.

hands-on design engineering

Code is a core part of Ramin’s design practice. He works in Svelte, React, and TypeScript, using working software to explore ideas and carry design decisions into implementation.

He moves between product architecture, interaction design, visual systems, and frontend development. His experience includes design systems, reusable components, accessibility, Figma, and rapid prototyping.

He uses prototypes to make abstract questions concrete, understand constraints, and refine how a product behaves. He stays close to the details that determine quality: hierarchy, language, motion, feedback, and the relationship between an interface and its underlying system.

range across digital and physical work

Ramin’s practice spans product design, engineering, industrial design, brand, print, film, and writing. He applies that range to the full experience surrounding a product, from the software someone operates to the materials and stories that explain it.

His hardware background gives him experience with physical constraints, manufacturing, distribution, and customer use. His film and media experience informs pacing, composition, narrative, and attention. His engineering practice allows him to turn design intent into working behavior.

Together, these disciplines support his ability to direct complex work while remaining deeply involved in its execution.

previous experience

Before Atalanta, Ramin was Head of Design at Promise, working across customer experiences and internal tools for payment plans, relief programs, and verification workflows. That work sharpened his focus on clarity and trust in situations where people may be under pressure.

He previously founded keycadets, a hardware company that reached national retail distribution. Building the company gave him experience across product development, manufacturing, logistics, retail, and customer support.

He is largely self-taught, with more than a decade of product design experience and additional work across hardware, film, and writing.

current focus

Ramin’s current focus connects mathematical AI with the future of robotics, autonomous systems, and mission-critical infrastructure. He is interested in how people express intent, understand system behavior, interpret evidence, and maintain meaningful oversight as technology takes on greater responsibility in the physical world.

He approaches these challenges through the combined perspective of a design leader, engineer, and founder: setting direction, understanding constraints, and making the work tangible.

working style

Ramin combines strategic ownership with direct execution. He works comfortably in ambiguity, explores through making, communicates directly, and collaborates closely with engineers and stakeholders.

He holds the overall vision and the implementation details together. His standard is work that is coherent, carefully built, and useful under real conditions.

Last updated: October 2026.