How I got here.
THREE YEARS OF SHIPPING, ONE DECISION AT A TIME
Right now I'm writing this from Da Nang. It's my first trip outside India. I'm three years into building things for other people, and into building a few of my own.
I started with design. I'd spend hours pushing pixels for free; it's still the only thing I can do without needing a reason. That turned into web development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, every framework I could get my hands on, learned by shipping. Then my brother pulled me into web scraping, and we spent a year working on real estate APIs, price monitors, social media data, FMCG pipelines, data migrations, and whatever else clients needed. I never took a course. Every stack I know, I picked up on a project that depended on it.
I left that company at the end of 2025. Nothing dramatic. I just wanted room to explore what I'm capable of on my own. I still believe web scraping is a craft worth being good at, but the interesting questions in this era aren't about knowing one language deeply. They're about architecture: how systems connect, where data moves, what breaks under load, how to keep it all reliable when a site redesigns itself at 3 AM. I live inside Claude Code and Codex most days, and what I've gotten good at lately is building with AI and automation in the loop. That's where most of my curiosity is pointed right now.
So I'm back to freelancing, with more clarity than last time. I take on custom scraping and automation projects through sidb.work, I'm running an API called ScrapeBase, I'm finishing a design tool called Particl that turns images into particle diagrams (the portrait above was made with it), and I'm close to shipping a social intelligence platform. Outside of work, I walk, I swim, I listen to a lot of music, and I plan to keep moving. I want to do half of everything. That would be enough.