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About

I live in Islamabad, having grown up in Gilgit in the northern mountains of Pakistan. I am completing my bachelor's degree in Software Engineering at SZABIST Islamabad, graduating in early 2027. I started out as a frontend intern, spent a few years working on client projects, and moved into full stack and product engineering. I now work as a Product Engineer at 100xBetter.ai, building AI product features. I mostly work in Node.js, Python, and PostgreSQL, usually on backend systems and AI engineering. I like programming, hiking in the Karakoram in summers, and building and breaking things.

Books and papers I keep returning to: Attention Is All You Need, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Hands-On Large Language Models, AI Engineering, and various technical blogs.