hey, i am shadan:)

i hack, design and code.
what i've been up to:
- co-founded tiger den cd's at 13, selling software and game CDs at school. made some pocket money lol.
- started a youtube channel at 15, made 1000+ videos, hit 65K+ subs and 5M+ views. grew a few insta pages to 250K+ followers. built apps for viewers that crossed 1M downloads.
- ran a social media agency (ytf media) for creators and businesses.
- joined kalam labs (YC S21) in 12th grade as a video producer — managed live sessions, edited content, built custom OBS workflows.
- moved to product design at kalam — designed UI/UX for K-12 kids, ran A/B tests, built game prototypes in unity.
- became founding engineer — built drones & fixed-wings (firmware, hardware, security), backend APIs, an AI livestreaming agent pipeline, a raspberry pi VTX system, cross-platform remote-controller apps, and a low-latency UDP telemetry system.
- qasly labs — researching AI security, automating vulnerability hunting, building tools around security + AI.
- workers.io — hacking and building things.