I was born in Rohtak, and in school, I was pretty average. I wasn't interested in chasing marks or rote discipline. My real obsession was figuring out how things actually worked. Whenever I visited my maternal grandmother (Nani) in Bhiwani, the first place I ran was my uncle’s (Mama’s) computer room.

One afternoon, my Nani handed 7-year-old me a CD of bhajans and asked me to run it. After 30 minutes of random button-clicking and stubborn exploration, the bhajans started playing. My mother and Nani were thrilled and joked: "Hamara ladka engineer banega!" It was a family joke then, but for me, that spark never faded. Soon after, my mama gave me a Lenovo tablet running Android Jelly Bean. I started with an SD card loaded with 800 offline games, but playing games soon lost its charm — I wanted to know how customizations, utility apps, and the internet actually worked.

At 13, after months of being stubborn, my mama gifted me a Redmi Note 4 — the budget powerhouse of that era ("thanks again, Mama"). We had no Wi-Fi at home, mobile data was strictly capped at 1GB per day, and network coverage inside the house was terrible.

I spent 3 to 4 hours every single day sitting on the roof just to catch enough signal to browse, buffer tutorials, and download YouTube videos to watch offline later. The moment the warranty expired, I dove in headfirst: unlocked the bootloader, flashed custom TWRP recoveries, backed up entire phone states with .tar archives, and started jumping between ROMs — flashing .zip files for clean AOSP builds and .iso/ported images like OxygenOS because stock MIUI felt too bloated. Later on, discovering Termux put a real Linux bash terminal right in my pocket.

After 10th grade, instead of following the crowd into standard school, my mother and I decided a 3-year Computer Science Diploma at CR Polytechnic Rohtak would give me real hands-on engineering skills (while completing 12th through NIOS alongside it).

That heirloom Pentium D from Bhiwani was still with me. During my second year, for a Computer Organization & Architecture presentation, I literally dismantled the desktop tower, packed the motherboard, processor, and parts into my college backpack, and carried them to class so my peers could touch actual silicon rather than staring at textbook diagrams. In 2022, I finally got my first personal laptop — having a dedicated machine gave me the workbench I needed to build an offline encrypted Password Manager for my final-year diploma project and score top marks.

Because of my diploma, I joined Chandigarh University through lateral entry directly into the 2nd year. Since I had already mastered the core CS syllabus in polytechnic, university became a playground for building real systems.

When ChatGPT and Cursor arrived, my building speed multiplied — I took complete technical ownership of major capstones, architecting the backend and mobile code while collaborating with teammates on reports and documentation. Choosing Cloud Computing as my specialization made Docker, cloud backends, and distributed systems feel like second nature. I graduated in May 2026 with a relentless drive to ship fast, resilient software.