Hello.

Hello, I’m Haris.

I’m a chronically online, slightly overcaffeinated millennial who works in tech and spends a lot of time thinking about how we got here.

Somewhere between learning to code, building startups, and shipping products for a living, work stopped feeling like a job and started feeling like a constant background process. I’ve spent most of my career at the intersection of technology, business, and ambition — the exciting kind — and I’m still figuring out where one ends and the other begins.

Professionally, I lead all things product at LottieFiles, building tools used by creators, teams, and enterprises. Before that, I co-founded a FinTech (Payer) and a music streaming service in the Maldives, worked with government teams on digital initiatives, and helped build a handful of ventures aimed at growing the local tech ecosystem. I’ve worn a lot of hats over the years: founder, CEO, engineer, product manager — often more than one at the same time.

This blog is mostly an internal monologue about modern work, product, startups, technology, burnout, leverage, and sometimes very random quests.

I also care deeply about startup communities and have spent years helping build them — from starting the Malé chapter of Startup Grind to representing AngelHack locally. Not because I believe hustle is the answer, but because building is easier when you don’t feel alone in it.

I have formal degrees and a few awards tucked away somewhere, but what matters more to me now is learning in public, thinking honestly, and being intentional about what I build — and why.