About
I am the one who has to deliver it
Co-Founder and COO at BuildXLR8. I am the technical founder who is running operations right now.
- Pune, India
- Building since 2018
- India, Middle East, Europe, Oceania, USA
How I got here
Eight stops, and one expensive stretch
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School
A friend explains how logic becomes code
For a long time I was learning programs by heart. I could reproduce them and I could pass on them, but I could not have told you why any line was there. Then a friend sat down and explained how logic actually turns into code, and the whole thing rearranged itself. I stopped memorising and started building. Computer science through school after that, and Java was the first language I properly fell for.
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College
LearnERA, and the first thing people actually used
Two friends and I built LearnERA to pull an entire college syllabus, attendance, marks and exam seating into one place. The feature people actually opened it for told you how many more classes you could miss and still sit the exam. Inside a year nearly 60% of the college was using it.
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2019
A startup over the multinationals
I wanted to watch a small team solve real problems up close. Got backend depth, learned design from people better at it than me, and saved almost everything I earned.
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2021
Out on my own, and the first client
I did not want to sell work I was only nearly good enough to do, so I spent months getting properly good at Flutter and Node first. The first client landed the same year, and they are still a client.
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2022
The expensive year
Two large builds went out of control at once. Eighteen-hour days for months. None of it was an engineering failure. Every one was scoping, sequencing, or a contract I wrote badly.
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2023
Monolithia
Started the company properly, on the systems the expensive year had forced me to build: phased milestones, signed acceptance criteria, and a cap on how much runs at once.
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2025
Oyifa, into the GCC
Launched a tender portal for Gulf IT providers who lose work to procurement they never see. Designed and built it solo, front to back.
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2026
Monolithia and WebXLR8 become BuildXLR8
The two merged, and the operational software offer became BuildXLR8. I run scoping, pricing, delivery and operations, and I am still in the editor. That combination is temporary and I know it.
Where that leaves me
Still close enough to the work to scope it myself
I own scoping, pricing, delivery and operations at BuildXLR8. Azharudheen owns technical direction, Emmanuel owns design and quality. I am the one on your fit call, and the one accountable for what ships.
We build for small logistics, distribution, trading and manufacturing businesses running on Excel, WhatsApp and paper. Not enterprises, not SaaS startups looking for a technical co-founder, and not anyone who wants a strategy deck. Turning down the wrong project is the cheapest thing either of us can do.
Everything I got wrong in the expensive stretch turned into three rules I now work by. You can read what each one cost.