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Darius Kazemi

Senior Engineer

Darius is a Senior Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab working on open social media standards with a focus on ActivityPub and the Fediverse.


Darius is a computer programmer, public speaker, author, and artist. He read each of the first 365 IETF RFCs once a day and blogged about it. He maintains Hometown, a fork of the Mastodon project with a focus on features that promote small community cohesion.


He lives in Portland, Oregon with two partners, two cats, and one kiddo. You can check out his personal website for more.