Professional Focus

Lately the work I care most about is real-time coaching, software that watches what you’re doing and reacts while you’re still doing it. Tensa. It’s a form coach for calisthenics that runs computer vision in the browser, reading your webcam to score reps and flag bad form mid-set. Haggl takes the same idea into conversations, coaching you through a live negotiation like asking for a raise or buying a car. Further back, and pretty different, there’s FinCom, a pipeline that pulls ten years of Pakistan Stock Exchange history, cleans it into engineered features, and trains forecasting models against baseline benchmarks.

Hobbies

Football and Barcelona

I never played seriously. But I watch constantly, and I rarely miss a Barca game. The part I like is the small stuff that decides matches, a winger holding width to pin a fullback, or a pivot taking the ball already half-turned. Being a fan means the highs and the lows, the 6-1 comeback against PSG in 2017, then the 8-2 to Bayern in 2020 and Messi leaving in 2021. Managers change, but the idea holds, homegrown players keeping the ball and building out of pressure.

Game of Thrones

With Game of Thrones, what gets me is how the biggest moments trace back to one quiet decision made much earlier. Littlefinger poisoning Jon Arryn and pinning it on the Lannisters is what technically starts the war, and nobody ever brings up that scene. The Night King is the other thing I keep thinking about. On the show, he leads the White Walkers. The books are different. There, the Night’s King is a figure from Old Nan’s stories who served the Others rather than leading them.

Calisthenics

I started calisthenics in December, at home with parallettes and a few resistance bands. The first time I tried real push-ups, I couldn’t get past three. Since then I’ve logged every session on Hevy, filled the gaps with YouTube, and kept at it. Three months in, I can do pseudo planche, archer, and pike push-ups, plus a one-leg assisted L-sit. The archer push-up is the one I’m proudest of, since one arm carries almost all the weight and there’s no faking it. A full planche is next.