Shahram Shafie is the Founder and Executive Lead of ORTENGA, where he oversees complex technical engagements and ensures client project goals are clearly defined, aligned across disciplines, and executed with predictability.
Shahram works at the intersection of system engineering, business objectives, and execution risk. He partners closely with Antenna, ASIC, and Algorithm teams to translate high-level requirements into actionable technical scope—aligning sponsors, engineers, and external stakeholders around outcomes, timelines, and budget constraints.
At ORTENGA, Shahram is known for assembling the right technical talent at the right time—matching domain-specific expertise to project needs and eliminating misalignment that often leads to cost overruns, schedule slips, or first-silicon failures. His approach emphasizes scope clarity, system-level thinking, and disciplined execution from silicon to deployed system.
Shahram’s career bridges academia and industry, combining deep research foundations with hands-on engineering leadership across communications, radar, and SATCOM platforms.
Prior to founding ORTENGA, Shahram served as an instructor at the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, Irvine, where he developed and taught graduate-level courses in Antenna Theory and Design and Principles of Wireless Electronic Systems.
He holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a specialization in Microwave Engineering and Radio Communication Systems. His technical contributions include two patents in TV tuner architecture and systems, later acquired by NXP Semiconductors, as well as a beamforming and beam-splitting patent for LEO SATCOM applications.
Contact email: shafie@ortenga.net