Founder. Builder. Claude Mentor.
CEO at Engaze. B.E. from the University of Mumbai. Claude Community Mentor for Anthropic's Built with Opus 4.7 hackathon. That's where the story stands — this page is how it got here.
None of it started in a computer lab
It started with a 10-year-old selling handmade jewelry.
Rewinding to 2012…
The Maker Kid
2012 — 2018
Making things people pay for — years before writing a line of code.
- Age 10~2012
First Business
DP Creation, with my sister Duvani — handmade jewelry and art. My first taste of making things people actually pay for.
- Age 13~2015
Started Coding
First lines of code in 8th grade. Built scrappy websites, got hooked, never stopped.
- Age 15~2017
Cubing Competitions & State Skating
Swept every category at the CFI Under-16 cubing meet; selected for state-level skating. WCA-official since 2015 — 12 competitions, best 3×3 single: 14.82s.
Unlocked this era
- Selling — before knowing the word 'entrepreneurship'
- First scrappy websites
- Speedcubing (WCA, 14.82s PB)
- State-level skating
The Student Builder
2019 — 2021
Diploma years — foundations, hardware, and the first callbacks.
- Age 162019
Diploma Begins
Computer Science diploma at SBMP — first hackathons, first leadership roles. Opened my GitHub that December; within months its code was in the Arctic Code Vault.
- Age 172020
Research Paper & IoT
Published a research paper on IoT fundamentals. Joined ExperientialEtc as an IoT systems developer — hardware and sensors, not just screens.
Published at 17 — IoT fundamentals - Age 182021
The CitJo Loop
Interned at CitJo, quit, got invited back as Flutter dev lead. Three separate call-backs in total — some exits are just intermissions.
Unlocked this era
- Python & IoT — Raspberry Pi, sensors
- Research writing, published at 17
- Flutter
- First hackathons
- Class rep · SIH coordinator
The Arena
2022 — 2023
Hackathons, real clients, and a company of my own.
- Age 192022
Hackathon Streak & First Freelance Clients
The hackathon streak began — it ran to 10 wins across 15+ entries. Freelancing too: Boult Audio's unified smartwatch companion app, the Netaji app.
Unscript Rookies — Winner, 2022 - Age 202023
Engaze Is Born
Founded Engaze and started building CampusOS. Also that year: GDSC App Lead, IEEE Technical Head, and the first of my 20+ workshops — CS essentials, 53 students in the room.
KJSCE Hacks 7.0 — Winner, 2023
Unlocked this era
- BLE & health APIs — Boult smartwatch app
- Client work — scoping, shipping, invoicing
- Django · PostgreSQL · AWS
- Teaching — first workshop, 53 students
- GDSC App Lead · IEEE Technical Head
All In
2024
The bet: drop the degree, back the company.
- Age 212024
Dropped Out for the Startup
Announced it publicly: dropped out of engineering to go all-in on Engaze. Swapped lectures for a self-studied MBA — books and real deals as the coursework.
Unlocked this era
- Self-studied MBA
- Fundraising & operations
- Knowing when to step away
The Comeback
2025 — 2026
Finish the degree. Run the company. Do both.
- Age 222025
The Comeback Semester
Came back to finish the degree while running the company — writing features, pitching investors, debugging at 3AM. First paying clients turned into a real team: by March I was the one hiring engineers.
- Age 23Apr 2026
Claude Community Mentor for Anthropic's Hackathon
Selected as a Claude Community Mentor for Anthropic's Built with Opus 4.7 hackathon — a field of 497 builders across 36 countries. Built the participant directory, 47builders.fyi, while I was at it.
- Age 23Jun 2026
The Degree, Finally
B.E. in Electronics & Computer Science, University of Mumbai — diploma, dropout, comeback, done. Formal education ends; 5,253 GitHub contributions in the past year say the real one never paused.
Unlocked this era
- Hiring & leading engineers
- AI-agentic development
- Mentorship at scale — 497 builders, 36 countries
- Finishing what you start
The story continues…
Formal education ended in June 2026. The real one never paused — 5,253 GitHub contributions in the past year and counting.