git log

The first commit. A Thursday in Jaipur. Pink sandstone, desert heat, and a kid who wasn't planning to stick around.

Nursery through tenth grade, all under one roof. Friends, exams, the grind of marks and ranks. Most of childhood happened in this building.

First real run-in with code. A long argument with a machine that didn't care what I meant, only what I'd actually typed.

Science stream, and the point it got serious. Harder problems, real pressure, and the first proper sign that physics and math were where I was heading.

Physics didn't show up as something I understood. It showed up as a couple of books that were gorgeous and completely over my head.

First real break in the line. Not just a new country. A new language, a new climate, and a bureaucracy that made no sense to me yet.

Less about the certificate, more about being able to actually live and study here. German was the one thing standing between me and everything next.

Berlin got me into the country. Munich is the one I actually fell for. Basically everything since has happened here.

Official on-ramp to the German university system. A year spent translating, not just the language but how school even works over here.

The main one. Chasing the parts of the universe that only show themselves once you write the math down.

Started a second degree on the business-and-systems side of tech. Gave it a year, then shut it down on purpose.

Where the academic stuff turned into a job. Real machine learning, shipped to real people, with real consequences when it's wrong.

If physics is about what the world is doing, math is about having a language exact enough to say it without lying.

Many-body physics is the good kind of hard. Each piece is already interesting; line up enough of them and the whole thing turns into something else.

First hackathon, first win. Messy real procurement data: scaling and normalizing product features across 7.3 million articles, plus a recommender for core demand.

Bigger event, tougher field. Didn't win this one, but 4th in the osapiens challenge against that crowd still counts.

Turning everything above into things people might actually use. I'm keeping the names off the public site for now. Not the direction, though.