about ๐๐ผ
A Software Engineer who does everything else. I have been building in the edtech space for 7+ years. Recently, moved to Santa Cruz from Karachi where I built an impact startup for upskilling and entrepreneurship education.ย
I started freelancing when I was 19 – developed websites for small businesses, did UI/UX for studios, and wrote about the local startup space. It helped me transition through full-time roles, a startup, and the move across oceans.ย ย
I have always been overwhelmed by the things I could do with a career in tech. It was not long when I found my calling – now I just know my energy is eclectic when I grow communities and my work helps people learn and make life altering decisions.
building spacesโ๏ธ
for the dreamers, fighters, and disruptors
First workplace – got hired by the VC straight outta senior year to run the first maker space of the public campus. It was an old finance office with gray walls – and we don’t work in gray areas. People built robots, prosthetic arms, cycles, and just had fun. As heard on the campus – “our only happy space”
Designed and lead a series of hackathons and community workshops for Karachi Civic Innovation Lab – a project based out of Playground @ Habib University. Supported 200+ social entrepreneurs, civic activists, and community leaders with tech + digital curriculum
Activated the biggest tech conference in Pakistan – helped the WIRED edition hitย 7300+ audience in 3 weeks by activating 60+ startups, VCs, and developer communities across the countryย
helping you from concept to ๐
building systems for community engagement, retention, and learning
I build learning experience design for community-based businesses and creators – helping from user research to product dev, that focus on high engagement and retention.
I develop user flows and curate resources for micro-learning geared towards co-working, collaborative learning, and community engagement.
I improve community engagement and retention throughย gamification to put the fun in communities, using badging, personas, leaderboards, and progress maps.
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my clients across the globe ๐
helping startups + businesses put the experience in learning
community impact ๐ฑ
speaking + coaching + mentoring
Started co-working hours for learning and getting shit done with a small community
Speaker for Google Dev Fest, Women Techmakers, Google I/O circa 2016
Mentor for Techstars Startup Weekend Youth & Women at The Nest I/O
Collaborated for community trainings focusing on youth entrepreneurship
building for good๐ชด
Transformed a student community that I started at my engineering campus into an impact startup. Scaled and sustained it for 6 years, impacting 6300+ early career professionals across ๐ต๐ฐ – 64% women, 78% public campus students. Our programs focused on tech and entrepreneurial education. We partnered with 60+ startups, campuses, and developer communities to build their community learning events. We grew from a team of 5 to 16 engineers, designers, and community builders. I mostly stayed behind the screen, fundraising, developing programs, and tracking dashboards for monitoring and evaluation.
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Founder
Founder
Chief Operating Officer
awards + features ๐
for being a rebel youth leader
Scholarship recipient in the Tech & Innovation Track
Grant awardee for scaling up my impact statup
Selected as the Global Shaper Karachi Hub
One of the 36 world champions for CIVICUS