Born into a middle-class Sindhi business family in India. Which means I learned business before I knew what EBITDA meant. Dinner table conversations included margins, customers, and negotiations long before strategy frameworks.
Eventually that inherited curiosity turned into structured research, entrepreneurship, and consulting. I started reading case studies for fun, ended up researching dark stores and consumer behaviour, and then decided that moving to Ireland sounded perfectly reasonable.
I turned down a QS Top 6 MiM program to go to UCD Smurfit instead. People asked why. I said the uncertainty is the point. I study why brands succeed, why systems fail, and why Zara never runs a sale. I overthink things professionally. I occasionally build things that fail respectfully.
Built an entrepreneurship cell from zero. Ran events, built community, and discovered that "founder" is just "person who shows up" in a blazer.
Global trade is a deeply human system. Full of paperwork, time zones, and relationships no algorithm has fully replaced. Yet.
Led cross-border coordination across a distributed team. High ambiguity, fast feedback loops, and the kind of work that reveals what you're actually good at.
Wore many hats before wearing them simultaneously. Learned the gap between the org chart and how decisions actually get made.
"The Impact of Dark Stores on Consumer Behaviour: An Age-Based Analysis in Indore's Fast-Emerging Retail Market." The real world is the best dataset.
Constantly updating. If a framework is good, it deserves a second listen.
Worst case: we both waste 15 minutes.
Best case: something interesting happens.
This page is not for recruiters. It's for people who are curious enough to find it and honest enough to appreciate it. Welcome.
I spent months preparing. Made colour-coded notes, joined study groups, bought the official prep pack. The GMAT had other plans. I failed. Not dramatically — just quietly, in a test centre in Indore, on a Tuesday. Then I studied more and applied to UCD with the DET instead. The path changed. The destination didn't.
There are days I wonder if I'm building the right things, in the right order, for the right reasons. Most ambitious people feel this — they just don't say it in public because LinkedIn is a highlight reel. I'm choosing to put it here because I think honesty is underrated as a professional asset. Uncertainty is not weakness. It's just accurate information about a complex situation.
Moving countries alone at 21 for a postgrad program is one of those decisions that sounds brave in retrospect and terrifying in the present. Student loan? Real. Culture shock? Incoming. Distance from home? Significant. Worth it? Ask me in two years. I chose uncertainty over comfort. The frontal lobe enjoys the chaos.