Chapter 01Story
The story so far
I wrote my first line of code at thirteen. Since then most of my days have been spent in TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with a habit of reading the low-level parts.
Along the way the projects grew from school competitions to international invention fairs in Geneva, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, and Silicon Valley. Outside of code, I photograph and film.
Now
First year of computer science at King Abdulaziz University, developing Deepbox, and growing ShadowJS.
- 2018
First Mawhiba summer
Academic enrichment program with Mawhiba.
- 2020
Age 13. First line of code.
First programs, and the Bebras informatics competition the same year.
- 2022
Tuwaiq, Unity, and a silver
Game dev bootcamp, cryptography summer at KAU, silver at Kangaroo Math.
- 2023
Risha launched
Launched my writing app. Third at the SaudiChatGPT hackathon, Best Engineer at Future Science, Munafis award. Started teaching web dev at Tuwaiq.
- 2024
The year of firsts
First in Riyadh at Watani, first at the Gulf AI hackathon, gold at ITEX in Kuala Lumpur, and a summer at UC Berkeley.
- 2025
Geneva, Seoul, ShadowJS
Gold with honors at the Geneva Inventions exhibition. Thailand's NRCT award in Seoul. Released ShadowJS. KAUST Academy AI program.
- 2026
Grand Prize, Silicon Valley
Best project worldwide at SVIIF, plus two golds and a silver. Deepbox and Jehaad Studio launched. Started CS at KAU.
