About

The Kid Who Couldn't Leave Computers Alone

I got my hands on a computer around age 10, back when the internet sounded like a fax machine having a panic attack. Dial-up. Hyderabad, India. No plan. Just curiosity and zero supervision around hardware I probably shouldn't have been touching.

I used to crack open desktop towers, swap out RAM cards, and piece together what I thought were "gaming PCs." I wasn't building them to spec. I was building them to see what would happen. Most of the time, they worked. Sometimes they caught fire (not literally, but close). Either way, I learned something.

When my family moved to Auckland, New Zealand, I was 12. New country, new everything. But the obsession with tinkering followed me. It just got bigger. I got into cars next, convinced that putting a bigger muffler on my dad's Nissan Sunny would make it sound like a sports car. It didn't. But I loved the process of pulling things apart and making them do more than they were designed to.

The Hustler Gene

My first ever job was delivering newspapers to five local streets. I was young, but something clicked early. I noticed new businesses opening down the road and walked in with a pitch: I'll deliver your flyers to these streets if you pay me in cash or product. One of them was a bedding store. I ended up getting a really cool duvet I loved in exchange for two streets of flyer delivery.

Looking back, that was my first taste of entrepreneurship. No business plan. No strategy deck. Just a kid spotting an opportunity and going after it. That energy never went away. It just found bigger outlets.

From Web Design to Email Infrastructure

Computers led to websites. I started designing and building sites, which at the time felt like the most exciting thing you could do on the internet. That pulled me into ecommerce. I ended up helping run the 3rd largest pharmaceutical ecommerce store in New Zealand, and on the side I was hustling for clients. I'd walk into businesses who needed help with online visibility, pitch SEO services, build their web presence from scratch. If someone had a business and no website, I was knocking on their door. That world pulled me deeper into digital marketing. And digital marketing pulled me into email.

Here's where it gets interesting. Email looked simple from the outside. You type a message, hit send, and it shows up. But underneath? One of the most complex communication systems ever built. Deliverability, authentication, reputation scoring, bounce handling, spam traps, provider systems. I fell in love with all of it.

I went deep. Built APIs and tools around email infrastructure. We created Email Verifier App (emailverifierapp.com), one of the first dedicated email validation platforms in the world. We launched around the same era as BriteVerify, back in 2008-2009, before email validation was even a recognised category. Our system used a 12-stage verification process, scanning against databases of over 380 million spam traps and 128 million complainers. We helped prevent over 800 million bounces for our customers. That's where I built my domain expertise. Not from reading about email. From building the infrastructure that millions of emails flowed through.

Building Businesses (Plural)

I didn't stop at one product. The curiosity that got me cracking open computers as a kid turned into a pattern: see a problem, build something to fix it, then move onto the next one. Today I lead a small team across 5+ businesses:

Sendmux.ai - Intelligent email routing infrastructure. We route emails through your own providers (Gmail, SES, SendGrid) with failover, quota management, and AI agent email access. We're also building for what's coming: agent-to-agent communication with full observability, conversation threading, and visibility into every interaction your AI agents have.

Qubrics.ai - A voice-first, mobile-first AI assistant for non-technical people. Real AI capability without needing to know what a "prompt" is. Bring your own API key, flat-rate pricing, and an interface designed for actual humans.

Spotzee.com - Multi-channel marketing automation with a deep specialisation in regulated financial services. Compliance workflows for FCA, FINRA, and SEC. Financial data-driven triggers from Companies House, Experian, and others. Managed deliverability for an industry with the worst inbox rates. It runs on Sendmux's email backbone. We eat our own cooking.

Gotta.blog - AI-native blogging built for how people discover content now: through AI search engines, not just Google. Write or speak (voice-to-blog), and it handles SEO, AI search optimisation, newsletters, and social publishing in one place.

Each product came from a real problem I kept running into. Sendmux exists because I got tired of watching applications fight with email providers. Qubrics exists because I watched smart, capable people bounce off AI tools that were built for developers. Spotzee exists because financial services firms were stuck with marketing tools that treated compliance as an afterthought.

The Iron Man Philosophy

I think about AI like the Iron Man suit. The suit doesn't replace Tony Stark. It takes a brilliant person and lets them perform at a level that shouldn't be possible alone.

That's how we run our businesses. Every person on our team is AI-augmented. Engineers, marketers, operations, support. We all use AI daily, and it lets us move at a speed that shouldn't be possible for a team our size. We're not replacing people with AI. We're giving skilled people their own Iron Man suit.

This is what I call being an AI Operator. Not someone who reads about AI or tweets about the latest model release. An AI Operator actually runs businesses with AI woven into the daily operations of a real team. The difference between an AI Observer and an AI Operator? Same as the difference between watching a cooking show and running a restaurant.

My goal is simple: help more people wear the suit. Help founders, teams, and professionals adopt AI in ways that multiply their output without losing the human expertise that matters.

Faith, Family, and What Matters

I'm a Christian, and my faith shapes how I approach everything. Building businesses, leading a team, making decisions when there's no playbook. I believe the skills, curiosity, and opportunities I've been given come from God, and I try to steward them well. I met my wife Grace in Auckland. We now live in Melbourne, Australia, with our family.

One of the reasons I'm passionate about AI is the promise that it can free up time. But I've noticed something honest about human nature: most people don't actually relax when they get more time. They fill it with more projects. More hustle. More noise.

So the real question isn't "how do I get more time?" It's "what am I going to do with the time I have?" For me, the answer is clear. Fulfil the purpose God has put on my life. Spend real time with family and friends. And help the people around me who need it. Technology should serve those things, not compete with them.

What I'm Doing Now

Building Sendmux and Qubrics. Running a small team that punches way above its weight. Writing about what it actually looks like to operate businesses with AI (the real version, including the failures). And always learning, because the kid who used to crack open computers in Hyderabad never really stopped being curious.

If you're a founder trying to figure out how to make AI work across your team, or you just want to talk about email infrastructure, AI agents, or building businesses without burning out, I'd love to connect.