I build robots, run events and start things that outlast me.

World Robot Olympiad

RoboMission Senior, 2025 and 2026

WRO gives you a table, a mission and a robot that has to do it alone. No remote, and no second chances once it starts. In 2025 my team, LGS Def Team Alpha, came 4th in Pakistan and went to the International Final in Singapore. That season, under the theme The Future of Robots, 4,500 Senior teams entered RoboMission worldwide, around 13,500 participants. We finished 58th in the world, the highest-ranked team from South Asia, with a Bronze award.

In 2026 we won the national round outright and qualified for a second International Final, in Puerto Rico.

Music, events and DJing

The part of my life that happens after dark

I work backstage as a management assistant for Hasan Raheem's team and the Thikaana collective. At Thikaana Live I handled stalls, lighting and where the flexes went, and through it I got to know people at Ticketwala and eventnm. I also ran a three-day athletics event for about 300 delegates.

On my own time I DJ, and I play guitar. I taught myself both from YouTube. The video is my favourite song, Laiyaan Laiyaan by Saad Sultan. I'm on lead, on the floor, with my friend's mum singing. Only my guitar went into the recording.

NERC and Headstart

National Engineering Robotics Contest, NUST, and the Headstart School Robotics Competition

NERC is where my Arduino line followers grew up. In 2024 three of them made the national top 16 in Ready to Race, and in the same contest we won the Modular School category. In 2025 my team came back and won Ready to Race. A line follower is a balancing problem on wheels: too aggressive and it wobbles off the track, too gentle and it misses the corner.

That February, at Headstart, I came home with seven trophies from one day across five categories, including Drone Line of Sight with a drone I built.

ARSSDC and ISSDC

Asian Regional and International Space Settlement Design Competitions, 2026

You get a brief for a settlement in space for thousands of people, a few days, and a team of strangers organised as a company. Then you defend the design to judges. My company was Vulture Aviation. We were 1st runners-up at the Pakistan qualifier and runners-up at the 22nd Asian Regional in Bangkok. In the resubmission round we came 1st in Asia, ahead of teams from India, Singapore and China, and went on to the world final in Florida.

At the final I designed a personal device for every settler, covering internal and external communication and the emergency protocols. The video is me answering the judges on it.

Entrepreneurship

KGES, PYET and Aitchison Business Concept, mostly won at the negotiating table

I was made President of Entrepreneurship three days before KGES. There wasn't time to prepare the way other teams had, so we split the work and argued through every case. We won Best Team, and I won the Negotiation Conclave.

Negotiation keeps coming up. At the Pakistan Youth Entrepreneurial Tournament 2025 I won Negotiation Nexus and finished as a Top 5 Performer. At Aitchison Business Concept XII my team won Investomania, and I got a Distinction in chess.

The Tomorrow Project

A student-run STEM NGO I founded in 2024

When I moved from simple circuits to microcontrollers I was completely lost, and there was nobody to ask. Most kids in Lahore never get as far as the circuits. So I started an NGO to hand them the kit and stay in the room while they work it out.

With Next Generation Pakistan we ran a 15-day robotics camp at Wahadat School for Boys. Most of the students had never seen an Arduino. By the end they had built and coded their own cars and fought them out in a sumo ring for a trophy. We also ran science sessions there, and a robotics workshop at Sweet Care Home with Maanzil Parvaaz. Two fundraisers, a bonfire and game night and a card night, raised over PKR 100,000 for kits.

My FPV drone

Six seconds, then two years

The first time my drone flew, it stayed up for six seconds, crashed and burnt its speed controller. The second version burnt one too, and I gave up for five months. When I came back I found the real problem: the flight controller wasn't distributing power properly. I rebuilt it a third time from my own savings. It took 3rd nationally in Line of Sight drones at NERC 2026, and now I teach FPV at school.