Who I Am (And How I Got Here)
I don’t remember the moment I fell in love with technology. It wasn’t some grand epiphany, no lightning-strike realisation. It was just there, like breathing—woven into the way I saw the world.
Maybe it started when my father bought me my first computer as a birthday gift—a machine that felt like a portal to another universe. Or maybe it was that night in 2002, when I fell asleep and missed Argentina’s opening match against Nigeria in the World Cup. I woke up too late, grabbed the newspaper, and realised I had no way of knowing the score when it actually happened. What if there was a way to see football results instantly?
So, I built one.
I didn’t know anything about making websites, but I learned. I threw together a simple page in HTML and started updating it with match scores as I watched them. It wasn’t fancy, and it wasn’t a hit, but it served its purpose. More importantly, it showed me something I’d never forget: I could teach myself anything if I needed to.
That’s the pattern my life has followed ever since. An idea gets stuck in my head, and suddenly, I have to chase it. I have to tinker, to push, to break things apart and rebuild them better.
Breaking Things to Make Them Better
When I stepped into the world of software development, I wasn’t just looking for a career—I wanted to make a change. I’ve always believed that no matter how rigid, how deeply entrenched a system is, it can be torn down and rebuilt into something better.
The insurance industry? It’s just one example. I’ve worked in places where change was something that happened slowly—painfully slowly. Where innovation was a buzzword, not a reality. Where ideas sat in meetings instead of making it into the world.
I hated that.
So I decided to do what I’ve always done: take something monolithic, break it apart, and build something new from its ashes.
Today, I’m not just working in insurance tech—I’m reshaping it. I’m building the insurance platform of the future, one that doesn’t just improve what exists but redefines how the entire industry operates. And I’m not stopping there. I don’t just want to be part of change—I want to be the disruption.
One day, I want to look back and say, with absolute certainty, I changed this industry for the better.
Why I Never Stop Learning
Even outside of work, I’m drawn to new ideas, complex problems, and impossible questions. I don’t just love technology—I love understanding it at its core. Not just how things work, but why they work.
I thrive on the intersection of theory and reality. I dive into research papers, tearing through ideas to understand them at a fundamental level—then I think, How do I take this and make it real?
This website reflects that. It’s not just about what I do, but what I think about. The concepts that fascinate me. The problems that keep me up at night. The endless pursuit of learning, questioning, and creating.
What This Place Is (And What It Isn’t)
This isn’t some neatly packaged, marketable personal brand. It’s not a blog that exists for clicks. It’s just me, documenting what I build, what I think about, and the ideas that won’t leave my head.
- Sometimes it’s about the systems I’m designing.
- Sometimes it’s about a concept I just learned.
- Sometimes it’s just a thought, a question, a spark that might turn into something bigger.
If you’re here, maybe you’re like me. Maybe you see something old and think, this could be so much better. Maybe you’ve never been satisfied with “just the way things are.” Maybe, like me, you don’t just want to exist in an industry—you want to change it.
If that’s the case, welcome. We might have a lot to talk about.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."