How I got here
Small-town kid
1996 — 2015
- 1996
Etawah
Born in a small town in Uttar Pradesh. Good at studies, but always hanging with the back-benchers.
- 2007
First computer
A computer landed at home in 6th grade. I spent every hour of it on games and Hollywood movies.
- 2009
The internet arrived
Got online around 2009. The whole world cracked open.
- 2012
Off to Kota
Left for Kota after class 10 to grind for the JEE.
- 2014
The itch
Started reading about code in Kota. Something clicked: computers weren't only for playing.
Falling for code
2015 — 2019
- 2015
First real laptop, first CLI
Bangalore for engineering. Taught myself C/C++ from YouTube a semester early and shipped a CLI calculator.
- 2016
A new language by building
Python, Java, JavaScript — learned each by making things: a Notepad that reads your text aloud, and Tamasha to scrape movie links.
- 2017
HURLS & tiny tools
Shipped HURLS, a URL shortener (~20k links), plus tools for myself like an attendance-manager that let me bunk class and still hit 75%.
- 2018
Backtick
Started my own thing: Backtick, a Slack-meets-groups for campuses. The dream was making college communication effortless.
- 2019
Dropped out
Made it through college but never cleared that last backlog. Left Bangalore without the degree and didn't look back.
Learning the trade
2019 — 2022
- 2019
Freelance & first taste of marketing
Built apptart (website-to-app) and sites for small businesses and picked up the marketing side of shipping, not just the code.
- 2020
First real job
Joined Zoop.one as SDE-1. Saw how products are actually built inside a company and how engineering bends under scale.
- 2021
Dyte: real-time at scale
Joined YC-backed Dyte building audio/video APIs. Went deep on WebRTC, SDK design, and the messy problems that only show up at scale.
- 2021
InstaTweet
Side-built InstaTweet: beautiful tweet screenshots for Instagram. Grew it to 20k users and 80k shots, until Elon switched off the free Twitter API.
Building for real
2022 — now
- 2022
DocsGenie, and a hard lesson
Built a RAG chatbot to integrate any API in plain English. Applied to YC, got rejected; my co-founder left; I shelved it. Learned to bet on myself.
- 2023
Came home, went remote
Moved back to Etawah and joined GoHighLevel remotely. Decided to build small, niche micro-SaaS to rebuild my own confidence.
- 2024
Throwing things at AI
A WhatsApp job-hunter bot, scraped-and-sold angel-investor lists, a string of small AI tools: experiments to find what actually sticks.
- 2025
WhatsBoard
Shipped WhatsBoard: connect WhatsApp to Monday.com with a QR code, via the Monday marketplace. Scaled it to ~$1.1k MRR and counting.
- 2026
Married my person
Married my college girlfriend in 2026. Ten years after we first met.