Twenty years of figuring it out.
2004
Started at 13 — already charging for tech work
First computer course, first certification, first income. Windows installations. Doorstep service. Head Boy of school on the side. Turns out public speaking and tech aren't that different.
2005 – 2011
Self-taught everything
HTML, CSS, WordPress, SEO, Adsense. Got scammed by MLM and PPC fraud — each one taught me something. My father's trading shop taught me everything else: selling, buying, accounting, the ground level.
2012
Lost my father. Started a company.
May: father passed away. October: I registered MITS. I don't recommend the sequence, but it taught me something about what you're capable of when you have no other option.
2014
Built Pakistan's first on-demand services marketplace
Technician.pk — book an electrician, AC technician, or CCTV installer online. Before Uber launched in Pakistan. Before Foodpanda. We were first.
2015
LUMS incubation. Pakistan's first Investment Summit.
Walked into a startup competition uninvited. Pitched as the last contestant. Won 2nd place. Got incubated at LUMS Centre for Entrepreneurship. Selected for Pakistan's first investment summit as one of 40 ideas from the country.
2015 – 2018
Speaker, mentor, WordCamp organizer
Mentored 200+ startups. Organized the World's Largest WordPress Meetup in Lahore. Co-organized Pakistan's First WordCamp. Then a large company acquired my venture — and I discovered I really don't do well with mandatory 9am card swipes.
2017 – 2019
Helped government bodies build a national digital skills system
Collaborated with government bodies at multiple levels to design digital training frameworks from scratch. Trained the trainers. The system touched 80,000+ students — helping them find real digital work, not just certificates.
2020 — 2022
AI-operated e-commerce. One assistant. Real scale.
Running Pakistan's fastest-growing e-commerce brand — strategy, marketing, CS, and ops — through AI agents. One human monitors the AI. That's the operating model I now build for others.
32+ — Now
Retired. Sort of.
Hit the passive income goal. Could have stopped. But I'm wired to build — so instead I got selective. No more chasing. No more proving. Now I only say yes to problems that genuinely interest me — the creative ones, the weird ones, the ones where AI opens a door nobody's walked through yet. Peace of mind isn't something I trade anymore.