I’m a product guy that codes. I’ve founded three Ed‑tech startups - got customers each time, reached recurring revenue twice, and learned a lot from all three. These days I build full‑stack web apps with language models, mostly in TypeScript (React, Tailwind, tRPC, Prisma, Tanstack, Postgres, AISDK).
This is NOT a resume. It is a narrative of my life. If you prefer the conventional route - click the LinkedIn button.
I was born in Poonch, Jammu & Kashmir, where I completed my schooling up to the 10th grade.
I moved to Jammu in 2009 for my higher secondary education.
This is where I became myself. I earned my degree, got my first job, rented my first apartment, and started my first startup here. Mumbai is as much a home to me as my hometown.
Got my degree from Mumbai University.
College was a wild ride - different city, culture, and food. I was an above average student. But I learned more in my first job than in four years of coursework.
I received a job offer through campus placement but chose not to join after orientation. Instead, I took an unpaid internship at a startup. I realized a conventional corporate setup wasn't the best fit for me. The internship converted into a full-time position in three months and later into a founding team role.
You can read the whole story here.
Parallel Ed was a platform for students to learn skills that were not taught in schools through short weekend-only courses. I made INR 1 Lakh in revenue from 20 customers.
I did this as a solo-founder and did a lot of experimentation for a year. Scaling the small-batch classrooms made little business sense and eventually I stopped.
Medal was a teacher training and hiring platform for ed-tech companies. We trained 25 teachers through our MVP course, achieving a 100% success rate in getting them hired.
The platform was powered by a teacher evaluation and rating system that helps employers hire the best teachers.
First software startup. I hired people, worked with a co-founder, and wrote code. Tons of code.
Hiring engineers as a non-technical founder is a big pain. At this point in time, I no longer wanted to deal with this pain. So I decided that I would learn to code. The end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 was all about learning to code.
I enrolled in Scrimba, which in my opinion is the best place to learn code. I had tried to learn programming many times before, but this was the first time I felt supported and was successful.
FalconAI was an AI platform for schools. Teachers could create bots and assign students to them. The first 25 teachers paid for the platform, then we ran a six-month paid pilot with two schools - 6 teachers, 50 students used the product.
We had customers but did not break even. We were unable to raise funds and we ran out of money after making it work for 18 months.
My father passed away in mid-2024. I helped run the family business for 6 months. It was a reset, and it reminded me why I build software.
I wake up, read machine learning papers, code AI agents, and sometimes write my thoughts on this blog. I am optimistic about AI and I am looking to work at early-stage AI startups.
I am quite familiar with engineering context for LLMs, building RAG pipelines, long-running agents and chat interfaces.