My journey into programming and shooting began in grade 6, but not in the way you might expect. Ironically, I hated attending computer lectures during this time. I was afraid of computers, and when we learned HTML, I didn't understand it at all. All of my classmates were much faster than me when it came to typing. At the time, I was more of a car guy. I would draw cars, play racing games, and focus on anything related to automobiles.

Around this time, my mother sent me to an army camp, where they taught me archery and target shooting, among other things. I quickly developed an interest in shooting and expressed my desire to do it regularly. When I learned that rifle shooting was an actual sport, I became even more excited. I began practicing at Mulund Gymkhana.

Within 2–3 months, a DSO shooting competition came up, for which my coach encouraged me to go. Not from a winning perspective, but more from a learning perspective. It was my first shooting competition, and of course, I performed poorly. My score was around 32 out of 400. While disappointed, I continued practicing.

When COVID-19 struck in February 2020, everyone was trapped at home for two years. Due to the lockdown, I was unable to continue training. At the same time, my 7th grade school year was entirely online. This became a turning point for me, as I started to explore programming.

During the second half of grade 7, my schoolmates introduced me to a popular social media platform called Discord. Initially, I was confused by the interface and had no idea how the bots worked. However, my curiosity pushed me to understand how they operated. I searched online and found various codes to create Discord bots. After a few months of copying and modifying other people's codes, I tried writing my own code.

That's when I discovered aoi.js (formerly dbd.js). I got good at it pretty quickly and soon started taking active part in their discord server. I would help other beginners with their aoi.js-related doubts. However, I wanted to contribute something more significant, I wanted to give back to the amazing open-source community that taught me programming.

I began coding dashboards for Discord bots, and my work was noticed by the aoi.js team. They offered me to contribute to their project, I became the lead developer of @aoijs/aoi.panel, an easy-to-use UI for aoi.js. This was a huge milestone in my programming journey.

When my parents heard that I was doing programming, they were upset at first. But I was able to convince them that I was doing it for a positive and meaningful cause.

The lockdown was eventually called off, and life returned to normal. Unfortunately, I was not permitted to resume shooting in 9th and 10th grade, as these grades were precious years in academics.

I continued shooting in 11th grade, and after only four months, I was playing my first nationals. I trained daily for four hours, and the hard work paid off. I won my first national medal in shooting.

Currently, I've shifted categories in rifle shooting, meaning I'm almost starting over, but the grind continues. Both programming and shooting have shaped who I am today, and I remain determined to keep pushing forward in both fields.