I build software.
My favorite part is the start, when the problem is still messy and nobody has written any code yet.
I’m open to remote roles and contracts with teams in the US and Europe.
Life is like a chart. It has ups and downs, peaks and valleys. I plan to keep updating this one as I go :)
Inspired by Eight Billion Lives (opens in a new tab), who ask people how they’d graph their life.
The internet found me through a game. As a kid I played Battle Dawn, an online strategy and diplomacy game. It was my first time online and the first time I dealt with people I’d never met. Most of my time since then has gone into computers.
I met code in 2016, when I was sixteen. My first thought was that it’s like English, except you have to make a computer understand what you mean.
A year later I started a CS degree at COMSATS, on a full scholarship. U.S. News ranks it first in Pakistan for computer science (opens in a new tab). I never got into cramming method names. I look those up. What I’m good at is understanding the problem properly and coming up with the idea that solves it.
When COVID hit, I started freelancing on Fiverr and Upwork, and it went well. My rule was simple: someone is trusting me with their money, so they get everything I’ve got.
Then financial markets pulled me in. Prices move on the messy psychology of a crowd, and I wanted to understand how. I traded with a prop firm and did well. I did well enough that once my payouts got big, they asked me to leave. That taught me how the prop firm model really works. It’s a casino, and the house doesn’t keep winners around.
So I started over. I worked with an agency in Mountain View on two of its clients, an early-stage VC firm and an AI guardrails startup in San Francisco and New York. I built their content system and learned a bit about writing along the way.
Now I’m looking for the next chapter: a team with a messy problem and room for one more builder.