An image of a desk with a laptop on it and 2025 written in background

2025 in Review

Looking back, this year was shaped by a series of changes in both my life and my work, from where I live, to where I work, and the biggest one of all, getting married. Work In July, I left CHECK24 to join Delivery Hero. I moved from a small team working on a young product, where we were building an MVP, getting the first orders, and owning many parts of the system, to a well-established organization with tier-1 services that handle thousands of requests per second across more than 70 countries. ...

December 23, 2025 · 3 min · Amin Rashidbeigi
An image of a desk with a laptop on it.

2024 in Review

The highlight of this year for me was moving to Germany (from Iran) and working for a new company. This simple sentence affected all aspects of my life: the language, relationships, workplace, and products I work on. It was an intense and chaotic year for me, and at the same time, it was full of new experiences. Language I was born and raised in a Kurdish family and environment. When I was 18, I moved to the capital of Iran, a Persian city, to start my bachelor’s at university. For 9 years, Persian was my main language in my daily life. This year, when I started my new job in Germany, I had a switch again. English became my main language for work and communication with colleagues, and German became my language for communicating with people in the city and a tool to integrate into the new society. ...

December 25, 2024 · 5 min · Amin Rashidbeigi