Here is a little StoryTime:
Back in 2019, right after my SSC (10th grade), my parents graciously decided my future for me. Medicine, of course, because "it runs in the family" (as does blood pressure, apparently). I obediently spent two years cramming for NEET, and just to be thorough, also took MHT-CET PCB as a backup. Because apparently, one crushing career path wasn't enough.
Then comes the rebellious chapter. I brilliantly convinced my parents that I HAD to take MHT-CET PCM to be eligible for PCB. Total nonsense. You don't need PCM to take PCB. But hey, it worked. Two months of math, after two full years of biology, and I somehow scored 93% in PCM. PCB? A modest 87%. NEET? Let's just say I scraped enough to land a college in Bangalore. Yay, dreams achieved.
Seeing that 93% in PCM was a wake-up call. Maybe, just maybe, I was cut out for engineering. So I mustered the courage to push back. Don't worry, the plot gets thicker.
Still blissfully naive, I believed the gospel of the internet: "To be an engineer, thou must get a B.Tech." So naturally, I enrolled in Biotechnology. Because hey, "Bio" + "Technology" = B.Tech, right? Genius. Took me two months to realize I'd signed up for something completely different.
Fortunately, the universe gave me a second chance. I bailed just in time and secured admission at Thakur College of Engineering and Technology.
God help this clueless, overly optimistic kid. He's going to need it.
College turned out fine. I picked AI & Data Science because it sounded like the future , and because I was finally studying something I actually wanted to. Classes led to experiments, experiments led to projects, and projects led to hackathons where I'd stay up all weekend building things that probably shouldn't have worked (but sometimes did).
Smart India Hackathon, Mumbai Hacks, Hackanova , chaotic weekends that taught me more about shipping under pressure than most lectures did. Audionaut, Native Ad Gen, BudgetBuddy, and a dozen other side projects followed. Each one a little less clueless than the last.
In June 2025 I joined Propkee as an AI Engineer intern. Three months later, full-time. Suddenly I wasn't just building demos , I was building production: propkee.com, AI pipelines, infra migrations, internal tools, the whole stack. Cut infrastructure costs by 94%. Shipped Propkee Live in 24 hours. Built things I'd only read about in blog posts.
Today I'm an AI Engineer and Full-Stack Developer who builds end to end , from the React component to the Gemini pipeline to the DigitalOcean droplet it runs on. Still clueless about plenty of things. Just less clueless than before.
The overly optimistic kid grew up. He still builds weird things. He just ships them to production now.