Born in Karachi, and leaving places ever since.

The US for a while. Then the UAE. Then Singapore. Then Malaysia for a decade, long enough to stop feeling like somewhere I had moved to. For the last few years, Dubai.

Being the new one repeatedly teaches you to read rooms you did not grow up in. You stop assuming the way things are done is the way they have to be, and starting from nothing stops being frightening once you have done it several times.

I started my first business at sixteen, while studying at Sayfol International School in Kuala Lumpur. It was a streetwear label. It taught me the one rule that has held up since: the interesting part is the building, not the thing built.

I created the handle omimiz.eth in 2017 and spent five years living up to it: crypto analysis, Web3 advisory, and writing. That work opened more doors than anything else I did in those years.

I advised teams, built inside their ecosystems, and learned to tell the projects that existed to be sold from the ones built to be used. The name stayed. It is on the door now.

I design the operational systems, run Tropika Marketing's creative and commercial work, and build the software behind Tropika Labs.

Engineering and distribution usually sit in separate firms. Keeping both in-house means the software is tested against how it actually goes to market, and the commercial work is shaped by what can genuinely be built.

Web3 research and competitive gaming, mostly to switch off. An unreasonable amount of time goes into hardware spec sheets, thermals, and builds.

It is the same instinct as the software work: I want to know what is coming before it arrives.