Hesam (Sam) Samimi is a teacher of computer science and programming, as well as an independent curriculum developer, teaching and developing project-based learning curriculums for secondary K-12 schools and online educational platforms since 2017. He's also an ESL English teacher, a web and mobile app developer, and a yoga and meditation instructor.

Recently he has launched Termeric---an online K-12 school curriculum buy-and-sell marketplace. 

Before discovering his passion at the crossroads of computers and teaching, Sam spent seven years during and after his Ph.D. studies at UCLA as a programming languages researcher, focusing on the application of artificial intelligence in programming and software development.