My story with code started in a cyber café in a small town in India. It was 2017, 10th grade, and a friend's father — who happened to run the café — knew programming. That's where I learned HTML and CSS, back when YouTube tutorials were scarce and internet wasn't cheap.

After 10th, I got my first laptop — a Lenovo, not the Mac I'd been dreaming about — and taught myself C++ from a worn copy of Let Us C. Then 11th grade introduced me to Arduino, and watching an LED blink from a single if-else statement genuinely felt like a superpower. I built an obstacle-avoiding robot car called VR Copycat; we lost the school competition because my teammate forgot the batteries, but I had already found what I wanted to do.

Today I'm a frontend developer at Delta4 Infotech, building interfaces with React and TypeScript. The tools have changed, but the feeling hasn't — I still love writing code that turns into something you can see, click, and actually use.