“He only knows this stuff because Tabby taught him.”
Jurors 6 and 1 are convinced.
- 2015 HP Pavilionmy old PC, repurposed
- i7-4790S · 12 GB4 cores, 8 threads
- 1 TB spinning diskone drive, managed tightly
- 25 containersmedia, games, automations
He built his own server in high school.
In 2021 he turned his old desktop into a headless Ubuntu server and taught himself Linux, Docker, networking and security by reading docs and breaking things. It still runs today, and it was the first thing Tabby asked about.
- 1,500days running, since 2021
- 25containers
- 15friends and family streaming
“He’s a student. He’s never worked anywhere real.”
Juror 3 is convinced.
A fintech used by millions hired him in year one.
DevOps engineering intern at Tabby. He built a GitOps proof of concept on Google Cloud, then onboarded a live service he wrote onto it in 7.5 hours. The CIO extended his internship.
- 7.5 hto onboard a live service
- ~1,300developers protected
- +6 moextension from the CIO
“Fine. But can he actually build anything?”
Jurors 7 and 9 are convinced.
Two hackathons. Two first places.
Wafir, an AI digital twin that finds what drives a building’s power bill, won TCS Sustainathon 2026. FieldLog, which logs field inspections by voice in 20 seconds, won TechHub after 48 hours of building.
- SAR 15KTCS grand prize
- 250+registrations at TCS
- 48 hidea to live product
“Has anything he built survived real people?”
Jurors 4 and 11 are convinced.
8,000 people. Zero downtime.
He designed the WhatsApp AI bot for KAU’s Engineering Day to pace itself like a human, answer most questions without the AI, never guess, and learn from organizers. It never went down, and its number never got banned.
- 8,000+people served
- 1,000+at the same time
- 0minutes down
“Can he lead people, or only machines?”
Juror 12 is convinced.
He leads teams and teaches rooms.
AI lead for KAU’s largest event, shipping 4 products with 10 developers. Then a two-day cloud bootcamp where 55+ students deployed their first containers, and a public talk at Tabby.
- 10developers led
- 125+people taught
- 4products shipped
“Sure. But does he do anything for anyone else?”
Juror 5 is convinced.
He builds for his community, too.
As Vice Lead of Technology at KAU’s new Oracle Student Club, he led 14 members and took the club’s website to production. Now he’s a technical consultant for it and the Programming Club, and he volunteered as an AI developer at Synapse, a non-profit under SDAIA.
- 14members led
- 5student clubs joined
- 2club servers run
“Does he only build when someone’s grading?”
Juror 2 is convinced. That’s all twelve.
He builds when nobody’s asking.
RGB Guardian, an arcade game he built from an Arduino and an LED strip: match each enemy’s color before it reaches you. And Cleanrr, an open-source Telegram bot he wrote to keep his home server’s 1 TB under control.
- Age 14first line of code
- 1 TBkept tidy by Cleanrr
- Opensource on GitHub