I was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up there. My mother raised the three of us on her own. My brothers are four and nine years older than me, so I was the youngest by a long way.
the leap
Around fifth grade we moved to Karachi, one of the biggest cities in the world. Everything changed at once, American schooling for British, and for the first few years I struggled to adapt and to make friends. Then it turned. I found my footing and came to enjoy it. I did my O-levels in the British system, and outside school I was pulled hard toward computers and technology, and near-addicted to video games, Pokemon straight through to Skyrim. A-levels at Nixor College came next: maths, physics and computer science, pointed at data analysis on my brother's advice. I applied to Texas State, UT Dallas and the University of Houston, and I went with my hometown, Houston, in the end.
the return
I left Karachi for the University of Houston and started college. Two terms. In the first I taught myself to study with ChatGPT, experimenting to work out how to get the most out of it. In the second I fell hard for philosophy, metaphysics and the study of religions, and started collecting books. Entrepreneurship caught me too, and the idea of building something of my own. So did psychology, which I practised on campus by going deeper than small talk with students, in conversations that were really therapy. I dropped my computer science class. Outside all of it I went looking for like-minded people I couldn't find at UH alone, in meditation groups, breathwork and community events around the city. Then, on February 26, 2024, a medical emergency nearly took my life, and I left college and went back to Pakistan to recover in body and mind.
the reset
Two months in a hospital, then a long recovery. Healing turned into studying. I interned, and I learned the stock market and how to trade it. I took the digital textile design course at Indus Valley, started in Photoshop, and learned to make designs that ended up printed on my own clothing samples: screen printing, heat press, block printing. With a team I wrote research papers and presented a final project.
I got an apartment in Austin with my brother, and this is where I am now. I'm open to what opens up next.
I'm based in Austin. Born in Houston, raised between Texas and Karachi, and both places are still in how I work. I love building systems that let me use my creative mind, then testing whether what I built actually holds up. Right now that means AI: agents, automation, and tools that do real work. What pulls me forward is bigger: renewable energy, and apps, games, and systems that expand human consciousness and bring technology into harmony with nature. If you're building something new and exciting, reach out. Let's stay connected.