If you’re expecting a list of fancy credentials, I hate to disappoint.

I’m a high school dropout. I taught myself how to code at 15 and started working at 17. Everything I know, I learned by doing.

I started my career as a computer hacker— the kind you see in movies with dark hoodies, I wrote a research paper on bypassing every single antivirus in the world with just 12 lines of code. That got me a bit of street cred in the security world and some gigs teaching about computer security at universities. I tested security systems for organizations and poked around CCTV networks (ethically, of course).

But breaking things got destructive soon. So I decided to build instead. I shifted to software development, had a blast making systems that let me boss my computer around with voice commands, but after a while, I realized—I wanted something I could touch. So I dove into electronics, burned my fingers (a lot), and figured out how to make automation work in the real world.

After working on automation projects, I went to Jaipur to try my hand at a startup. We spent a year building a newspaper aggregation system for local newspaper publishers, which was eventually sold to a publisher. With that chapter closed, I moved to Bangalore.

There I worked as a technical architect designing smart factories, automated farms, and futuristic city systems. Sounds fancy, right? It was fun. But eventually, I quit my job to start teaching entrepreneurs how to rapid prototype their ideas. That’s when I met a few artists and an entire community of creatives who showed me that technology could be art. One thing led to another, I started building interactive experiences, doing art exhibitions, and—well, here we are.