About Me & My Story

I was born in 2007, and I've been curious about how things work for as long as I can remember. As a kid I'd stare at the old television and wonder what was behind the screen producing those frames — I even tried to break it open once (it was metal; I failed). I knew it wasn't magic. It had to be science. That question — what's actually happening in there? — never really left me.

I'm blind, and for years that meant I couldn't use phones and computers the way everyone around me could. My first real taste of an Android phone was my mother's Micromax in 2014 — something like Android 4, barely able to run three apps at once, and mostly used by me to play a truck game I loved. I watched technology videos on YouTube by clicking and hoping: I couldn't see which video would play, and ads I couldn't skip would sometimes ruin it. But I kept watching — and kept wondering how it all worked.

In 2021 everything changed: I turned on TalkBack for the first time. It was infuriating at first — I'd swipe left and wonder why the phone wasn't going left. Then I figured out the two-finger gesture, and suddenly the entire phone opened up to me. From that day I used my phone like anyone else: I installed almost everything in the Play Store, found bugs in plenty of apps, and my curiosity exploded — how do these things actually work?

So I decided to learn programming — with no laptop and no keyboard, just an Android phone and the Google keyboard. I started with Python in a learning app (honestly, boring), then switched to HTML and learned it properly, typing every tag by digging through the symbols menu — a line that takes a second on a PC took me twenty on the phone. But I did it, one character at a time.

In 2023 I got my first laptop, and I had to learn a screen reader on a PC all over again. It took about three months, self-taught, before I truly felt at home. After that came freedom: I could learn any language, build any project, join communities and publish open-source work — and as AI arrived, everything got faster. I'm still going, still learning, and this story is still being written.

I'm 19 now — still self-taught, still curious, still taking things apart. If there's one thing that hasn't changed since that television, it's this: it's never magic, and I still want to know what's behind the screen.