2018
I spent years
understanding people.
Five years across accounting, data management, and operational support — where attention to detail and process thinking became second nature.
2023
Then I started
understanding products.
Started in customer support for Shopify merchants — chat, email, troubleshooting. First-hand exposure to how software actually fails and how people actually use it.
2023
Shopcircle Apps.
Every ticket taught me.
Three-plus years supporting merchants across time zones. Every confused user, every edge case — the unglamorous training ground for everything that came after.
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Every bug report
taught me something.
Wrote the escalation reports engineers actually wanted to read. Learned to think in reproduction steps, root causes, and fixes — the language of building, not just reporting.
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Then I started
building it.
Started fixing what I could see. HTML, CSS, JavaScript — taught through curiosity, sharpened through real escalations, shipped through repetition.
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Then building
got playful.
Took frontend skills somewhere fun. Built game logic, animation, and interaction systems from scratch — for curiosity first, then for real users.
2026
VATSAL.LOL
An independent browser gaming platform — 33+ games and counting, built one evening session at a time.