About

I grew up in Hyderabad, Sindh. There aren't many software companies here, so none of this was an obvious path to take.

When I was 10, my interest moved from playing games on the computer to editing photos on it. I'd open my own pictures in Photoshop and try to make them look like something. My middle brother was a graphic designer and a freelancer, and I'd sit and watch him build logos and brand identities in Illustrator until I started to understand how he was doing it.

Eventually I asked if I could submit entries from his account too. Within a month one of my logos got picked and I earned 30 dollars. At that age, in that city, 30 dollars felt like a lot. That one win is why I kept going, and my brother is the reason I had anything to submit in the first place. He helped me more than anyone.

For the next few years I worked as a designer. Logos, branding, the kind of client work you get when you're young and willing to redo it until it's right. I got fast, and I got used to someone else deciding whether the work was good enough.

Then my eldest brother told me to move over to the coding side. He needed help there, and he thought I'd be better off for it. He was right, though it didn't feel like it at the time.

I started with HTML and CSS on YouTube. No bootcamp, no one to ask, just videos and a lot of repetition. Then I took an online React test, which showed me exactly how much I didn't know, and spent the next five months practising React the same way.

At the start of 2022 I got an offer for an unpaid internship. I was turning 18 that year, I didn't have a degree, and I knew exactly how that looked. I went anyway and cleared the interview test. By the middle of the year they had hired me as a software engineer.

My first real responsibility was the WebHR website. I ran the whole thing: design, frontend, and the SEO behind it. In a single month it pulled 9,000 clicks from Google Search.

I was 18 and had been writing code for about a year. That month is when I stopped feeling like an intern.

I wanted to be on the mobile side, so I moved into React Native and I've been there since. I've worked across several modules of the WebHR app, and in 2025 my lead manager and I revamped the entire application.

We took it from 3,000 users to over 12,000, on a platform now used in more than 190 countries. Most of that came from fixing what people touched every day rather than adding anything new.

Around the time Somezing was getting started, I began working on AI properly. I wanted to understand how LLMs actually work instead of just calling an API, so I picked up Python, read into machine learning, and built my own RAG and LLM setup.

I had AI's help doing it and I won't pretend otherwise, but I came out of it understanding the stack rather than just using it. That's been the point of the whole exercise.

These days I'm working across Somezing, WebHR and AskBooks. I spend real time keeping up with new AI tools, because they genuinely make the work faster and the field moves every week.

I use Claude Code every day. At this point you could fairly call me a loyal customer.

I'm usually out with a camera. Most of my sense of colour comes from photography rather than from any design course: framing, light, and knowing when to leave something out. It's the same instinct I started with at 10, just pointed somewhere else.