Hey, I’m Ali. I was building robots and electronics at home before I wrote any software. The code started in 2018, with paid work won from cold messages while I was still at school. Then ApplyAce, one form so a student could apply to several universities at once, and after that FTMO, where millions of trading accounts were being checked by hand. I built the engine that did it instead and rebuilt it in Rust when it stalled. The review desk went from about 1,023 people to 5. Since August 2024 I have been CTO at Xaibridge, building for fintech, healthcare and operations teams on an architecture carrying up to 1M+ users. The question most days is what something costs, and what it would cost if we built it ourselves.