About Me.

An Inch From Catastrophe 

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Have you ever had a moment where your life flashed before your eyes? A moment so raw, so terrifying, that it reshaped your entire existence? If you had been sitting next to me in the car in August ‘22, you’d be crying, calling your loved ones, and perhaps, for the first time, believing in God.

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It was just another hangout with friends, but everything changed in an instant. My friend, riding high on adrenaline, stood through the sunroof while driving. The car swerved uncontrollably across the highway, dangerously close to the barrier, barely an inch from catastrophe. In that split second, my heart raced, and I thought everything was over.

But it wasn’t.

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From Magic to Power

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I come from a middle-class family in India—our story wasn’t one of rags-to-riches, but of frugality to freedom. My childhood was filled with tech wonders—watching Steve Jobs unveil a new iPhone, the thrill of Sony releasing a new PlayStation. For me and my brother technology wasn’t just entertainment; it was magic.

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I moved to Canada because my bhaiya said, "Billy, you should pursue Software Engineering." I didn’t fully understand it at the time, but the crash in a Tesla changed everything. This time, it wasn’t chaos—it was control. The car’s safety measures predicted the impact, adjusted itself, and saved us. I walked away unscathed. In that moment, I realized: technology wasn’t just magic. It was power.​

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The Turning Point

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Despite surviving two near-death experiences, my real struggle wasn’t physical—it was internal. In my second year, loneliness gnawed at me. I had friends, but I felt isolated. My ambitions blurred. Life was just a repetitive cycle of assignments and deadlines. I was drifting—until the university strike.

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And that's when my life changed for the nth time. At the precipice of everything going bust, I read a quote by Swami Vivekananda "Make your goals so big, so powerful and so compelling that all your problems seem insignificant by comparison".

I remember vividly, I could not sleep that night. 

I started watching podcasts of people whom I thought have made it big in life. I noticed 4 key things common in every single one of my idols. They READ, have immense PASSION, make IMPACT on the masses and make MONEY.

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Principles I Live By

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I was fixated, I decided by the next year April, I would be finishing 36 books at least, reading 3 books a month. While my peers were joshing around, my books were my playground. Since then, I’ve lived by a few principles that most people find… uncomfortable​: 

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• I never settle. The moment I feel comfortable, I know I’m stagnating. Growth only happens when you throw yourself into chaos and learn to swim.

• I chase autonomy, if a task can be automated, I’ll automate it. If a system can learn, I’ll make it smarter. Wasting time on repetition kills creativity.

• I deeply believe that if what you’re building doesn’t create impact, you might as well not build it at all. The probability of being alive, being me, is basically zero, so why waste it just existing for myself?

• Data is infinite. It’s the one thing that can help us predict, optimize, and elevate every part of human life. I’ve seen this in my work. Every project has reinforced one belief: use data to make life better.

• Finally, I try not to stress over things that don’t matter. You only really need to care about three things, what you do, who you’re with, and where you are. Everything else can be changed, improved, or automated.

What Drives Me

So, when people ask me what drives me, it’s simple.
I want to build systems that free people from meaningless work, that give them back their time, their joy, their safety.