About
The unfiltered version.
Welcome to my corner of the internet
Data engineer by day. Generalist by nature. I've shipped code across game dev, client engineering, backend systems, and data pipelines — because staying in one lane was never an option. But behind the terminal is someone who rewrites history in grand strategy games, gets emotionally wrecked by anime arcs, stares at black holes questioning existence, and once built a fire-shooting robot that almost got me expelled. This isn't a resume — it's the unfiltered version.
🎯Passions
Building software feels like a superpower. This portfolio itself is where I experiment with new tech, animations, and design patterns.
The universe genuinely makes me question everything — our place in something so incomprehensibly vast. Out of all of it, black holes fascinate me the most. Pure cosmic horror that bends time itself.
🔥Fun Fact
Picture this: final semester, 2015. I'd already built Android apps, web apps, desktop apps, server apps — basically anything with a screen and a compiler. I was dangerously bored. So naturally, I did what any sane person would do — took on 7 final year projects at once. Not mine. My classmates'. Delivered every single one. The payment? Pizza and food parties. Best exchange rate I've ever negotiated.
Now for my own project — I wanted to understand how hardware and software actually shake hands. Inspired by Wozniak, I built a warfare robot. Yes, a robot. That shot fire. On purpose. The demo was going great until I aimed it at my instructor. In my defense, I was demonstrating range. In everyone else's defense... yeah, fair enough.
💭Views & Philosophy
</>On Code
Simple scales, complicated pains. That's the whole philosophy.
Code is read far more than it's written — if your teammate can't understand it in 30 seconds, you've failed.
Overengineering isn't skill, it's insecurity. The best code is the code that doesn't make you feel clever — it makes you feel calm.
∿On Learning
The Feynman Technique is my north star — if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it. Teaching forces clarity, and clarity is understanding.
I'm a generalist by design. Game dev → client engineering → backend → data engineering. Being tech-agnostic and honest about what you don't know removes every guardrail on where you can operate.
Go wide first, then deep. Scan the landscape, find what sparks curiosity, then dive until you hit the bottom. Shallow knowledge across domains connects dots that specialists miss.
When I don't know something, I find people who do. Time with a specialist saves you from traps they already fell into — that's not a shortcut, that's leverage.
No one can teach a closed mind. The real prerequisites for growth aren't skills — they're curiosity, imagination, and the willingness to feel stupid for a while.
◉On Life
Live like it's your last day — but make it count. Steve Jobs said it, and the fragility of being human makes it hit harder every year.
Failure stings, but the retro after is where the gold is. I don't just move on — I trace back the pattern that led me off the cliff.
Relationships are a two-way street. Give and take — the moment it's one-sided, it's already over.
Success is overhyped. People ask successful people about their present, never the journey — and that's exactly why they're looking for shortcuts that don't exist.
🧭Influences
“Then I swear by the setting place of the stars,
and indeed, it is a mighty oath — if you could know.”
Surah Al-Waqi'ah · 56:75-76
Think about this. Over 1,400 years ago — no telescopes, no theory of relativity, no understanding of gravity, no concept of spacetime — a text describes the setting places of stars and the weight of invisible cosmic structures with a precision that should stop any scientific mind in its tracks. It took humanity until April 10, 2019 to capture the first image of a black hole — M87*, 6.5 billion solar masses, 55 million light-years away. We needed eight synchronized telescopes spanning the entire planet, decades of theoretical physics, and the combined effort of 200+ scientists just to photograph what a single verse already pointed to. Let that sink in. We built the most advanced observation network in human history to confirm something that was written when people navigated by the stars with their bare eyes. That gap — between what was known then and what we're still struggling to understand now — is what keeps me up at night.
Khalid Bin Waleed (R.A)
Leadership & WillThe undefeated commander — but what truly inspires me isn't the victories. When Umar (R.A) became Caliph and removed him from command, he didn't protest or walk away. He stepped down to the ranks and kept fighting as a common soldier for the same mission. That's resilience. Titles didn't define him — purpose did. The fact that I'm still inspired by him centuries later is proof enough of his success.
Sun Tzu & Machiavelli
Strategy & ForesightThe Art of War and The Prince shaped how I approach problems — think three moves ahead, understand the terrain before you step on it, and never be reactive when you can be proactive. Their frameworks for statecraft and battle translate surprisingly well to engineering and life decisions.
Steve Jobs
Product & DesignTaught me that simplicity isn't laziness — it's the ultimate sophistication. His obsession with minimalism and UX philosophy rewired how I think about products. Reading his biography made me understand that great design isn't about what you add, it's about what you have the courage to remove.
Steve Wozniak
Hardware Meets SoftwareThe engineer who didn't just write software — he built the hardware it ran on. Wozniak's complete mastery of both worlds is what made the early Apple machines revolutionary. That philosophy — understanding the full stack from circuits to code — is what pushed me to build a robot in university just to feel the bridge between electronics and software with my own hands.
Interstellar
Wonder & PerspectiveNot a person, but a film I could watch a hundred times and never get bored. It captures everything I love about the cosmos — the scale, the mystery, the emotional weight of time. It reminds me why I stare at black holes at 2 AM and question everything we think we know.