I do not wait
for the right time.
Technology found me early — not through a class or a parent who coded. In Grade 6 I was introduced to Scratch during an online summer camp, and loved the idea of turning an idea into something that worked. Robotics was a regular school activity from Grade 2. By Grade 7 I joined Helios Tech Club and started exploring coding seriously — not because it was required, but because making a computer do something new felt genuinely exciting. By Grade 8 I had built a Discord community for hardware enthusiasts (raided twice, rebuilt three times — now 300+ members). By Grade 10 I was running a battery recycling initiative and speaking about it to a full school auditorium. By Grade 11 I had four internships, a cybersecurity app, a design agency with seven paying clients, and a competition cybersecurity dossier. Nobody assigned any of it.
I sit at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and entrepreneurship — not because it sounds good on paper, but because these are the three things I cannot stop thinking about. Battery Bin is environmental. PhishSentinel is technical. BrandSnap is entrepreneurial. Hardware Decoded is community. My NAS is infrastructure. The thread connecting all of them: I saw something worth building and built it.
Outside the projects: I have played Indian classical flute since Grade 3 — over a decade, uninterrupted, with a school award in Grade 9. I have won gold medals in skating and chess. I taught myself chess seriously during COVID in Grade 7 — Lichess and Chess.com daily for five months, beat my father for the first time, became the chess person of the grade, won two gold medals representing school. I run a personal NAS and maintain a digital library at home because I want to understand infrastructure by actually running it. I have completed Harvard CS50 and The Complete JavaScript Course. I do not start things to have started them.
"The best time to build something that matters is before you are given permission to."— The principle behind every project