Self-taught engineer turned Builder, Technical Co-Founder & Indie Hacker.

I'm a self-taught software engineer who came up in the pre-YouTube era of solo learning — articles, forums, hard-copy books, and eBooks across networking, cryptography, cybersecurity, ethical hacking, and programming in Perl, C, C++, Python, PHP, and JavaScript.

I started shipping things to friends in Python with rough GUIs, with no real awareness of the software development lifecycle. From there I freelanced through word-of-mouth, taught web development as a crash-course instructor for a couple of years, and was hired by agencies to build alongside other developers for clients across sales, real estate, the Gulf, and startup founders outsourcing their launches.

Reputation along the way: the developer who ships good-looking, design-aware web apps. I used to do the design work myself before working alongside graphic designers, and that eye for the user-facing surface stuck.

Then I shifted into entrepreneurship. I'm now a technical co-founder / CTO across multiple ventures — Platform One (acquired by Aumet, 2021), Career 180 (still CTO, Pre-Series A), and a couple more in the works.

What I learned along the way is that building software isn't writing code and shipping it. It's thinking, designing the solution to fit the customer's problem, persona, and nature, and shaping the product around that. The code is the easy part.