[ 00 ] — About

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I'm Shahnawaz — based in Lahore, Pakistan. By day I work at CloudCard, a BaaS/fintech company, as a Solutions Engineer and TAM. I debug APIs, write RCAs, and keep enterprise clients from going sideways.

By night, I co-run Alo— Pakistan's cleanest RTD cold brew. 4 SKUs, content-driven growth, operating out of Lahore while my co-founder holds down Islamabad.

I also built Lunaro OS — a photobooth kiosk SaaS running on Electron + React, deployed at live events. DSLR control, print workflow, Supabase backend. Windows-only, offline-first.

Before all of this, I was a national-level competitive swimmer. That part never really leaves. These days it's powerlifting (220kg sumo DL), running, and the occasional early morning when the pool calls.

Goal in the next 8 months: hit profit threshold on the ventures, exit the day job. Operating on Pakistani time, which means late nights and early mornings.

Stack & domains

Code

TypeScriptReactNext.jsElectronSQL

Infra

SupabaseCloudflare R2VercelGitHub

Day job

API debuggingWebhook integrationClient RCAsSQL forensics

IRL

Cold brew extractionSumo deadliftSwimmingRunning (C25K)

Timeline

2000Born in Lahore, Pakistan

2016–20Competed as a national-level swimmer. Lahore Gymkhana.

2022Entered fintech. Solutions engineering at CloudCard (BaaS).

2023Started powerlifting. Sumo DL 220kg, squat 170kg, bench 115kg.

2024Co-founded Alo Cold Brew with Faiz Ghardezi. First 4 SKUs launched.

2025Launched Lunaro OS. First live event: SOFTEC 2025.

NowBuilding, shipping, and drinking too much cold brew.

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