i build things before i'm ready to build them.

i wasn't the kid who lived in hackathon halls in high school — that wasn't my story. the version of building that comes with a real deadline and a team you can't fully choose hit me later, mostly after i was already in college: competitions, student orgs, and events where you can't hide behind a solo side project.

what stuck wasn't the line on a certificate — it was learning to work with people who don't owe you patience, and caring whether the thing still runs when the demo ends. i didn't only want to build things — i wanted to be in rooms where other people could build too. the next sections are the concrete versions of that — names, roles, and what actually shipped.

at aligarh muslim university, i stopped treating college as coursework and started treating it as infrastructure — for myself and for hundreds of others. every line below is a room i actually showed up in: code reviewed, slides rewritten at 2am, schedules held together with shared docs and patience.

as web developer at ieee women in engineering (wie), amu, i'm building the official react site for the chapter and co-organising stem outreach and mentorship events.

with ieee robotics & automation society (ras), i anchored stem idea-thon 2026 and hosted the 'from amu to vlsi industry' webinar for 40+ undergrads.

as public relations lead at amu ss sat (student satellite team), i led end-to-end pr and communications for a space tech research and satellite development initiative.

ieee computer society — coordinated code-o-fiesta 2025, 55+ participants across five competition problems.

ieee student branch — organised game jam at vercera 5.0 (amu annual tech fest): problem design, coordination, judging panel.

iceci conference 2026 — reporting team, hospitality, tracks anchor, reporter across two days.

folio — ai-native study workspace for ipad: swiftui, coredata, openai api, apple pencil workflows. [github ↗]

devmind — ai mac overlay: screencapturekit, assemblyai, elevenlabs tts, annotation pins. [github ↗]

amu studysphere — react + mongodb academic platform. 3rd place ieee innovation challenge. [github ↗]

f1 race predictor — ml model: scikit-learn, fastf1, streamlit dashboard for scenario simulation. [github ↗]

unifyos — esp32 + freertos environmental safety system. google solution challenge 2025. [github ↗]

lifepal — ai healthcare app for cancer patients. google winter of code 3rd place. [github ↗]

i genuinely can't tell you what kind of programming i do because the honest answer is "whatever the project demands and then some." frontend? yes. backend? also yes. custom pcb? did that. writing a bootloader in assembly for absolutely no commercial reason? currently doing that. the only way i know how to understand something is to build it badly a few times first.

my main stack is react, node.js, and python, but i've touched enough embedded c and swift to have opinions about them. i design in figma when i'm feeling disciplined and on vibes when i'm not.

i fly rc planes. this started as a "let me try this once" thing and has since become a whole situation. there's something deeply satisfying about building something that actually leaves the ground and doesn't immediately die. (it doesn't always not immediately die. but when it works — incredible.)

i'm also obsessed with cars in a way that goes slightly beyond normal. not just driving them — understanding them. why does that engine sound like that. what does that rattle mean. i tinker. my family has accepted this.

there's something that appeals to me about the engineering of a car — it's one of those things where you can see the entire system if you look hard enough. mechanical, electrical, software, all talking to each other. it's basically an embedded systems project that also does 200kmph.

nusrat fateh ali khan isn't music to me, he's more of a spiritual experience. same with fareed ayaz, mehdi hassan, ghulam ali — qawwali and ghazal i was basically raised on. kishore kumar, rd burman, lata, asha, md rafi — non-negotiable. coke studio pakistan is one of the greatest things to exist and i will die on this hill. kaavish for when i need something that feels like 2am in the best possible way.

in english: the beatles, the smiths, radiohead, tame impala, the jesus and mary chain. very much a "slightly melancholic guitar music" person. fred again.. is the exception — i don't know what he's doing exactly but it works every single time.