About · Northampton, United Kingdom
Engineer first, founder by necessity, teacher by habit.
The story · 4 chapters
A software engineering degree at PUCIT, then a first job teaching machines to see: computer vision models at OMNO AI that had to run fast on cheap edge hardware. No budget for waste, no room for almost-working. That job set the pattern for everything since.
In 2021 I co-founded Eshtyle, a multi-vendor e-commerce platform, and learned the difference between writing software and running a business. Then serverless systems at Xgrid, 50K requests a day, where I learned what scale does to careful plans.
Moved to the UK for a masters at Northampton, led a real-time computer vision platform on the side, then ran data engineering at Phipps Henson McAllister: 10,000+ clients migrated between accounting platforms and LLM systems in production for people who do not forgive downtime.
Today I run Placewise AI, voice agents that interview candidates on autopilot, and I still write its code. ReachWise builds AI for other businesses. Wise Route, WiseApply and BritWise help people make the UK home, the way I did. And through KhanX Tech I teach what the shipping keeps teaching me.
The timeline · 7 marks
Grab the ruler and pull
Four hats, one head
Five-plus years of Python, AI and cloud systems: serverless backends at 50K requests a day, computer vision at 30 frames a second, and LLM systems that hold up in production.
Co-founder and CEO of Placewise AI, and still its lead engineer. Second time around: Eshtyle came first. Reachwise runs the services side.
Mentor to 50+ engineers worldwide on architecture, LLM applications and careers, through KhanX Tech and office hours.
500K+ views of technical content across YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok as KhanX Tech. Teaching in public is how the lessons stop being private.