The journey

I grew up in Muzaffarnagar, in UP, the kid who was always up to something. Walking around at night, I'd keep glancing up, trying to work out why the moon kept following me. I think that's where the sky first got its hold on me.

I always said I wanted to be a scientist. And I was drawn to pictures early: the way a still photo freezes a moment, and how deep something mundane can look once it's frozen.

Our first computer arrived when I was in fourth grade. My brother and I mostly used it for Midtown Madness, Vice City and Prince of Persia.

Then I started poking around in its settings and system files. A "renew your Windows license" reminder kept popping up, so I dug through the registry until I found what was behind it and made it stop. It was my first real hack, and I've been tinkering with computers ever since.

As college got closer, the scientist plan met reality. Computer science felt like the more practical path, and it was the thing I was genuinely passionate about, so I went to AKTU to study engineering.

In 2019 I started working, and I haven't stopped building since: fintech at Credicxo and Credgenics, where I went from writing code to leading teams, a stretch working directly with founders, SignWith as CTO, and now AI for healthcare at RapidClaims. The work side of this site has the details.

The sky never let go. Looking up still reminds me how much bigger everything is than we imagine, and how caught up we get in the mess we've made for ourselves. I genuinely believe that if everyone looked at the night sky once a night, they'd live a little differently.

I still take photos of the night sky, the moon and ordinary things that catch my eye, all on my phone for now. A proper camera is next.

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse hit me harder than most books ever have, and I keep going down rabbit holes about the brain, especially neuroplasticity and the way it can rewire itself.

Mostly, though, I'm figuring out what I want from life, and the harder question after it. We're all defined by something, our jobs, our careers, how supportive or loving we are, or a trait someone pins on us. Those are exactly the things that bubble up when you ask yourself what kind of life you want. The question I keep coming back to is whether that life is actually worth wanting, or just the one everyone around me happened to want first. I'm somewhere in the middle of finding out.