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title: About
description: First-generation college student. Solo healthcare SaaS developer. Based in New York.
section: about
tags: [about, index]
genre: index
lastUpdated: 2026-04-17
url: https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/about
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## Bio [#bio]

I build software the way I was taught to solve problems — from first
principles, with whatever I have, until it works. Over the past year,
that approach has produced twelve production applications, a hundred
repositories, and nearly three thousand commits. More importantly, it
replaced sixty-one thousand dollars of enterprise software for a
healthcare agency that couldn't afford to keep paying for tools that
didn't understand their work.

I'm the first in my family to go to college. Stony Brook University,
computer science, final semester. I was selected for **Bottom Line** —
a six-year program that bets on first-generation students and stays
with them through graduation. They gave me a coach and a framework. I
brought the rest.

When a pediatric therapy agency needed software, they didn't hire a
team. They hired me. I became responsible for everything — time
tracking, practice management, clinical data collection, case
management, billing, compliance. Six applications. Four agencies. Two
hundred users who depend on what I built to do their jobs. The children
on their caseloads depend on it too, though they'll never know my name.

Before I wrote my first line of JavaScript, I wrote C. Memory
allocators. Concurrent game servers. POSIX job schedulers. I wanted to
understand how computers actually work before I started telling them
what to build. That foundation shows up in everything I make — I think
about memory, about concurrency, about what happens at the edges.

I coach Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at Stony Brook — no-gi, thirty students,
twice a week. And I read philosophy the way some people read
self-help: not to sound interesting at dinner parties, but because
Nietzsche and Marcus Aurelius and Camus were honest about how hard it
is to live deliberately. That honesty is more useful than any framework.

## In this wing [#in-this-wing]

* [Experience](/docs/about/experience) — roles, contracts, and what I built at each.
* [Education](/docs/about/education) — Stony Brook CS + Bottom Line scholar.
* [Testimonials](/docs/about/testimonials) — what former colleagues say.
* [Skills](/docs/about/skills) — stack and tools I reach for.
* [Interview](/docs/mind/interview) — 50 unscripted questions and answers.

## Elsewhere [#elsewhere]

* [Install](/docs/install) — how to hire, collaborate, mentor, or advise.
* [Vault → Bio](/docs/vault/reference/bio) — short, medium, and long bio for press.
* [Vault → Contact](/docs/vault/reference/contact) — where to reach me.