I was what most people would describe as a complete failure once upon a time. A failed startup, a dead in the water career, terrible outcomes at university, social and family circles keeping a distance and the list goes on. God however decided to give me a second chance. I’ve had some experiences and turning points which even I find hard to believe at times.

I still fail often but in a way that builds up, I’ve had a few successes and a boatload of experiences. I did not enjoy all of them TBH, but they all come together perfectly and nothing really went to waste.

• Bootstrapped a startup out of college, crashed and burned. Made up my mind never to work in startups again
• Worked in an academic institution (college) but realized this is not my cup of tea – I need to be as far away as possible
• Managed a team of technical writers and wrote docs for tech products – missed hacking code and building stuff myself
• Worked in support – handled customer escalations and product customizations
• Worked as a developer, built products for WordPress. REALLY loved doing this. Had a fantastic boss and CTO whom I learn a lot from
• Started building mobile apps alongside and later promoted to manage a small team
• Moved on and managed larger engineering teams of web, mobile and cloud developers – this company later got acquired
• Started a freelance consulting career that somewhat exploded in a good way
• Back to startups but this time with super low risk in the services space, the freelance consulting evolved into a company – this time it did reasonably well
• Back to building products in a startup around AI and consulting around AI. Its come a full circle – when will I ever learn ?