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A timeline of moments that shaped my life. Hover for details.A timeline of moments that shaped my life. Tap to expand.
Replit announced Series D in Mar 2026: $400M raised at a $9B valuation. Nice marker if you were in the early Wefunder community rounds at a $979M cap.
I spent five straight days in January 2026 making my first film in a long time, documenting the story of the missing relic at our church. The footage looks saucey and got over 50K views on Instagram.
Dec 2025 I decided to take programming seriously and started shipping code to GitHub every day. I felt like a fraud of a developer.
In November 2025 finished reading my first full book cover to cover. Atomic Habits by James Clear. I've carried it across almost 20 flights for the past 2 years.
Travelled to Kerala, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Wayanad and did an AI film festival and visited family.
Learned to drive manuel on a Toyota Innova and a KIA while in India and 100 cc motorcycle Yamaha Rx 100. Nothing more fun! Got my actual Indian 4-wheeler motor license too, in a pretty sus way tho.
Immersive global fellowship on Systems Thinking and Ecopreneurship in the Swiss Alps to develop scalable impact ventures. Met some of my best friends and learned systems thinking. Swiszzerland is expensive but probly the most beautiful place I've ever been alongside San Francisco.
It was a traveling circus across Krakow and Warsaw. Led daily conversations, group sessions and activities for 80+ students. I mainly taught frameworks and pitching while helping teenagers build English confidence.
Some of the smartest catholics I've met. Engaged with scholars and explored foundational questions and philosophical thought though aquinas lens. Inspired me to take my faith more seriously. First time in washington DC.
Two-day intensive workshop in San Francisco on building and shipping with AI, alongside ~2,000 top CS undergrads and grad students. Absorbed founder lessons: talk to users, ship fast, and iterate. Huge stamp of validation for me in the startup space.
Me and my friend did a half Murph in Toronto. 1.34 hours for 2.53 km, 150 squats, 100 pushups and 50 pullups. I was sore for a week.
Hackathon for Rejects on easyhacks.org. Started from an accidental rejection email thread from UBC nwhacks. Turned into a 10 person team with 170+ beginners from 7+ countries and about $8K in prizes.
Got to come back and emcee the Youth for Entrepreneurship awards night. Full circle after winning the media contest a few years earlier. Shared a bit of my journey with the room. YMCA of Greater Toronto wrote it up on their blog.
Jan 1st, 2025 — did a cold plunge with Jack.org at Woodbine Beach in Toronto.
Did a 50km bike ride from Scarborough to downtown Toronto for fun. All on the Toronto bike share system. Probably the first person to do it. Switched bikes 13 times in the span of 6 hours.
Oct 2024 did my first 10K after 2 weeks of running with uoft running club
Survived an insane 24 hours in Italy without internet, relying on the kindness of strangers to get around.
Worked with Professor Yakov on info-gap decision theory. Optimizing for windfall while increasing robustness under severe uncertainty. One of the most intense and challenging experiences of my life. Transformed my thinking, traveled across Israel and met some of my best friends. All during a war.
Carried free monitors from benchsci's old office across Toronto to resell and fund my voice agents project
Canadian Gap Year Association helped fund my trip on my gap year across Bangalore, Kerala, and Colombo. Thank you CanGap ❤️
I shared my experience with the YMCA and how it gave me the confidence and opportunity to help make a change the world. Big thank you to the donors and staff who make programs like this possible.
A year to do cool shit, explore, travel, and learn outside school. I said yes to everything. I travel to new cities and visited family in India.
I joined the Computer Engineering program at York University. I had fun at engineering frosh and went to 2 weeks of classes before dropping out. Still have many friends there.
Massive Validation of my path so far. Invited to Forbidden Courses prior to it become a university. Completed the pre-course work, but couldn’t join the in-person seminar due to visa constraints. With Harvard and MIT kids
A community that opened my eyes to what’s really possible. Pitched and built tech with 200+ innovators, shipped and explored 30+ conferences around the world. Presented projects at Microsoft HQ, Interac, and Sensei Labs. This is where I met some of my best friends and learned to pitch and ship.
Invested in a private round into Replit on Apr 2, 2022. A product I actually used and believed in. At a $979M valuation, on paper it has 6.6x in Mar 2026 they closed Series D at $9B. I later got blocked on X by Amjad for no apparent reason. So a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.
Launched a Shopify storefront for bath bomb fundraising for the Vanauley homeless shelter, promoted via Instagram theme pages. Had around 600 followers. Learned e-commerce + order fulfillment and marketing.
I was a child who built my first game with unity but few weeks after release and 30 users. Project got taken down by Google for violating user privacy and got a legal email from them.
Led a 4 person team for the Circus Clownz NFT project and learned Solidity. Started building a whole ecosystem around it with token (circus penutz) and linktree tool (bio blox). At the end of the day no product market fit and launch failed.
Learned millions of dollars are left on the table. I experimented with early GPT-2 fine-tuning to speed up applications. Learned how incentives really work in education and nonprofits.
Took some of the crypto money and cashed out to buy a Sony A7 III for around $2k. I wanted to take film seriously and this was my first camera. I love it!
Got super into NFTs cuz of Gary Vee. Took my YMCA internship money, about $3K, and went all in. Flipped Veefriends and World of Women, did some DeFi farming, lived in Discord. Ran the portfolio up to around $100K then the market crashed and I lost it all. I did once so I can do it again! :)
I was very into filmmaking and received the #SAVETHENIGHT scholarship from The Garage Learning through their partnership with Jägermeister. Each scholarship winner got a Pro Subscription and a Hard LED Light or Soft Panel Light Learning Kit. I became a big fan of Steve Giralt and his commercials — and saw up close what chapter 7 bankruptcy looks like.
I used to 3D print a lot of things from the Toronto Public library. I would go to every workshop and learn modelling and Maya. I even got an embroidery certification.
Started winning photography competitions. I would sign up for everything. One of my photographs was even featured in a local gallery showcase. Won around one thousand dollars in total.
I got a DJI Mavic. Since it was the early days for drone stuff, I got the Transport Canada basic Flight license.
I made my first dollar online, selling keto books to women in Nebraska. I've built mutiple theme pages for gaming, health keto and other stuff and sold a clickbank product.
Deeply influenced by creators like Peter McKinnon, potato and got into filmmaking. Did over 10+ videos, short films entered into short film competions. Won a few thousand dollars for corporate vids. It's now a passion of mine.
Built and shipped real time Raspberry Pi glasses to help visually impaired folks read what is in front of them. Used OCR and wired it up to Google Assistant and Alexa. First shipped hardware project at 15. I was the youngest presentor at the easter seals canada innovation night. Thanks Ms. Chan for the opportunity.
Received 10K in cloud credits to work on Actions on Google, plus free merch. Created Bible Companion. A google assistant bible study skill that allows users to ask questions about scripture, receive daily verses on google assistant. It was a pivotal moment of validation. Realizing that emerging tech could be this cool and that the scale of (even fake) cloud-credit money could be so large. This is when i started to take software seriously.
I made the first logo for the St. Thomas Syro Malabar Forane Church. I won the competition and got $100 from the bishop in front of everyone. This started my pursuit of money.
Begged my parents for random Arduino tech. And started building random things bluetooth controlled RC cars and open source OTTO project. Even prior to this I luv breaking apart RC cars from value village
A simple calculator app written in Kotlin. Made a clean UI, basic operations (add/subtract/multiply/divide), and a straightforward keypad layout. It was written in Kotlin and launched on the Google Play Store.
Started my first YouTube channel and made my first videos. Even though I only had 50 subscribers, I was still able to everything from 3d printers, driving wheels, parts and lot's of microphones from Fifine. Over time I received ~$400 in free products/cash across channels through sponsorships. There was a whole shady side, along the lines of me -> parkistan -> china -> amazon. Ask me in person :)
Inspired by linus tech tips and dave2d. I built my first PC. This started my whole journey of building things and tech. Then this became my thing. I'd build PCs for everyone from random parts and CPU's from Value Village. I loved it.
Big shift. Joined ESL at school.
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