I grew up in Ahmadpur East, a small town in southern Punjab. No career counseling, no tech scene, no one around who worked in tech. Where I come from, every kid grows up dreaming of becoming a doctor. That was my dream too. So I studied Biology all the way through intermediate. Dissecting frogs, memorizing organic reactions, the whole deal.
But I'd been obsessed with computers since I was a kid. I convinced my family to buy one during my school years. It started with gaming, then I taught myself everything about how computers and the internet actually work. After finishing FSc, I spent 5-6 months researching what to do next. Every path I explored pointed to one thing: Artificial Intelligence.
So I made the switch. Enrolled in BS Artificial Intelligence at Islamia University of Bahawalpur. Coming from a pre-medical background with no programming experience, starting from zero while my classmates had been coding for years.
A senior recommended I use Ubuntu as my daily OS. So I did. For two full years. It broke things, I fixed them, and somewhere in that process I stopped being afraid of the terminal.
It worked. I graduated with a 3.65 CGPA, outperforming classmates who had been writing code since high school. But grades were only part of it. I wanted to teach what I was learning.
I co-founded the Neurafinity Club, ran four Python bootcamps, and served as a teaching assistant for our AI course. Teaching forced me to really understand things. You can't explain what you don't know.
By my 7th semester, Automaxion hired me before I even graduated. Now I'm shipping production systems for real clients. Autonomous agents, data pipelines, AI tools that people actually use every day.
This is just the beginning.
