Life

A running memoir, written in the order I can remember it.

These chapters are personal, not professional — the resume version lives on the work page. Memory is unreliable and I have tried to be honest about where mine is hazy. New chapters get added as enough time passes for the stories to be safe to tell.

Chapters

1991–1995 · Childhood

Early Childhood Years

A few fuzzy memories from Saudi Arabia, my mom teaching us in the heat, and the move to Canada.
2005–2009 · Port Elgin

High School Years

Sports, a small town, and the awkward social physics of arriving late.
2009–2014 · Waterloo

University of Waterloo

The accidental path into Systems Design, co-ops, Linux, and the first time I started liking computers.
2014–2015 · Silicon Valley

My Time at Quora

Search traffic, the "first click free" bet, and a crash course in product politics.
2015–2016 · Real estate tech

Opendoor Experience

Joining a tiny startup, building the admin tool, and learning how humans can fake scale.
2016–2018 · Global scale

Uber & Internationalization

Rosetta, translations at massive scale, and the work behind Uber's global expansion.
2017–2024 · YouTube

My Google Journey

YouTube ads, brand products like Flash and Select, and learning to lead inside a giant company.
2024–2025 · Enterprise AI

Coupang and the Enterprise AI Turn

Traffic control, globalization specs, Emux and the agentic turn — a year of starting things and handing them off.
2025–Present · Still being written

Roblox

The current chapter: teaching Roblox to understand its own content — and sending agents into games to do it.