Welcome to my humble abode on the internet. Here's everything you need to know about me, all within 3 minutes:
I did my bachelor's in computer applications from a tier-3 college in Rajasthan. The college wasn't good enough, so I taught myself to code from YouTube, online courses, and whatever I could find. Got really interested in startups. Started freelancing while still in college. Learnt to figure out what clients actually needed even when they couldn't articulate it. That's where I learned that shipping is a skill.
Around that time, I read Naval's quote about getting what you want if you're smart enough. I was fascinated by tech Twitter, so I gave myself a challenge: could I get 1,000 quality tech people to follow me without gimmicks? and I did. Made friends who are still around. Learned about building in public. That experience ended up shaping a lot of what came next.
But first, I wanted to build something of my own. I'd only made small projects and only knew frontend. Picked an idea anyway. This was mid-2024, just before AI coding assistants really took off.
Four weeks later, I launched Slik. A complete e-commerce discovery platform. Did everything from research and design, to dev, marketing, and support. Got thousands of visitors, hundreds of users. Multiple buy offers came in. Job offers too. I almost sold it.
Started working on my next idea when a friend introduced me to someone building something similar. Our visions aligned. I joined as tech co-founder at a hyperlocal social experiences startup, which we later named Be Offline, and that's when things got interesting.
I wore many hats. Hired interns, talked to early customers, worked in Figma with our designer, coded dashboards and prototypes, dug through PostHog analytics. When our app developer left, I learned React Native on the fly and optimized the app. To everyone's (and my) surprise, I not only improved the performance, but also reduced the size by almost half. That's when I realized: I can learn and build anything.
This was also when AI coding tools started getting good. I became obsessed. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf... I started integrating them into my workflows. The thing about AI tools is they let me do all the other stuff fast and good enough, so I can spend most of my time on what actually matters. It allows me to spend more time on architecture, system design, and shipping faster.
We launched, got hundreds of users, generated real revenue, ran our own offline experiences. When we couldn't scale our hyperlocal bets as planned without external monies, we pivoted to board games. Built one from scratch, launched at India's biggest tabletop gaming event, iterated based on feedback, and started selling it through a shopify store. While I loved what we had built in this year-long journey, I felt it was time to move on. I wanted to put my skills to better use at a high talent density startup having some scale.
After Be Offline, I joined Binary as a product engineer. It's an AI-powered ATS for startups. As someone who's been on both sides of hiring, I loved the problem and the team's approach. This was also my first time working on B2B SaaS after years of consumer products, and it changed how I think about building software. I learnt what it actually means to build things that scale, and to be part of a small team that punches way above its weight.
For years I couldn't put what I do into a job title. Developer first, then solo-founder, then technical co-founder, and now an engineer at a startup. Lately I've made peace with the title product engineer. Roles are becoming more fluid after AI anyway. I figure out what to build, ask why, work out how, and then actually build it. That's what I've always done, I just didn't have the words for it.
I want to keep doing this, surrounded by people more talented than me, preferably in small teams where I get more ownership. If you're building something that matters, I want to talk. I bring engineering experience, product intuition, and an obsessive drive to ship.
Let's build something great together.