Learning what the work actually is.
As Assistant IT Manager, I handled internal support and built a Laravel leave module. My first look at how much of a company runs on someone remembering to do something.
Five roles.
One thread.
I learned how businesses run before I automated one. Each role taught me another layer of the work companies do by hand, and that is how I know where the person is hiding in a process, and what it takes to remove them safely.
Building the operational backbone.
Inventory and courier systems in .NET with SQL Server, barcode integration, and Google Maps tracking. The kind of system an automation later has to write into.
Growing into product engineering.
ABHI, Gov Finder, timeline visualization, and the Recourse Loop ATS with Outlook integration. My first hiring pipeline, built by hand.
Connecting bigger systems.
A dynamic website builder, NestJS microservices, and RabbitMQ messaging. Queues and retries stopped being theory.
Removing the person from the process.
WhatsApp assistants, VAPI voice agents, Simplex and Bitrix24 integrations, Azure OpenAI. Whole processes, running without a hand-off.
Recognition.
A few times other people decided
the work was good.
Top Champ Award
xLoop Digital, Cloud DivisionRanked first in the division for coding quality and delivery. Given by the company where I learned to think in products instead of screens.
Top 50 of 500+ at Teknofest Pakistan
AI / SaaS category, PKR 20,000 prizeMy startup idea: employee productivity measured from the work itself, with automated tracking and recommendations. That idea became Track Loop, the fourth system above.
100% scholarship, BSc Computer Science
University of the People, USAFull tuition covered on academic merit at an accredited American university.