I studied computer science in college, but most of what I actually use came from teaching myself — building since 2020, well before I finished my degree in 2024. The formal education gave me the fundamentals; everything that actually stuck came from building things, breaking them, and figuring out why.
Before any of this, I failed the IIT JEE exams twice. That's not a detail I lead with, but it's part of the shape of things — it taught me how to sit with hard problems long enough to actually solve them, instead of giving up when the first attempt doesn't work. My first real project was an e-commerce store that made zero sales. That failure taught me more about how businesses actually work than any course could have.
From there, the work compounded. I was tech lead on StartupNews.fyi, taking it from WordPress to AWS and scaling it to 21-26 million monthly impressions — a platform that reached that many people because the infrastructure could actually hold it. I built automation for an energy-sector client — CRM, chat, calls, follow-ups, all connected. I built donation infrastructure for nonprofit organizations that now moves ₹2-3 crore a month, including one campaign that raised ₹26 lakh in a single day. Real money, moving because a system worked the way it was supposed to.
Today I'm building StartupUnplugged.com's internal infrastructure, and I founded Valeff Labs — an AI automation and growth agency helping businesses replace manual work with systems that run themselves.
What connects all of it: I build the parts of a business nobody sees. The CRM that quietly routes a lead. The automation that follows up so a founder doesn't have to. The infrastructure that lets a platform handle millions without falling over. Nobody claps for infrastructure. But nothing works without it.
What's next: I've decided to go into AI localization. It's the direction closest to what I already know how to build, and I'd rather move on it now and build it in public — honestly, including the parts that don't work yet — than wait until it's polished to start talking about it.
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