Kozhikode, Kerala
Hi, I’m Rasin.
An engineer with a product habit, out hunting for the right opportunity.
I can work in engineering, product, go-to-market or solutions engineering. I have about a year and a half of work behind me, not ten. What follows is my case for why that should not stop you.
About eight minutes, with pictures. Psst. Click anywhere on the page.
01Growing up
The kid.
I was a curious little man. Everything I met came with a question, and the question was nearly always how does this work.
I sat on the back bench and still scored well in exams. My teachers said it, and now and then so did people I barely knew, in the kind of line you expect from a film: you’ll grow up to be someone great one day.
And I loved planes. Aeronautics was the plan, and I had it worked out in some detail.
Progress report
- Student
- Rasin
- Seat
- Back bench
- Marks
- Good, somehow
- Remarks
- Will grow up to be someone great one day.
02After school
The detour.
I was a boy full of dreams: of planes and aircraft, of a life spent in research. I knew the way there ran through the top schools.
Somewhere in the middle, something went empty, and I didn’t make it. JEE gave me the 93.8 percentile: good marks, and not enough for aeronautics at an NIT or IIT. And I kept hearing that a private college was no place to study it.
So I chose computer science. I loved technology but had never written a line of code. It was where the future was going, so I went with it.
- Plan A
- NIT or IIT, aeronautics or maths
- Plan B
- B.Tech in CSE (Data Science), Mar Athanasius College of Engineering
032020 to 2024
The struggle.
Coding was new, and it was hard. Somewhere in those four years I found the name for what I had: gifted kid syndrome. Things had always come easily, so I had no method for when they didn’t.
Everyone still expected the great one. To keep that image safe, I avoided anything I’d have to learn from zero. In a computer science degree, that is most of the degree.
I kept going, and graduated.
- python first_program.py
- SyntaxError: invalid syntax
- python first_program.py
- NameError: name ‘talent’ is not defined
- python first_program.py
- Hello, world
04In college
The spark.
For a long time I thought computer science was syntax, and programs that either ran or didn’t.
Then a college project put a multilayer perceptron in front of me: small units that each take a few numbers, weigh them and pass something on, roughly as a neuron does. Stack enough and the thing learns.
Nobody had told me part of this subject was about how we think. I fell for data science and machine learning right there.
Plane 90%, Bird 10%. A plane.
Inputs are what a neuron’s dendrites pick up. Weights are its synapses. Each node adds them up and decides how strongly to fire.
052024
The first job.
My first job took me to Chennai, to the data engineering team at JMAN Group. I learned a great deal at that desk. The city taught me more.
It taught me the mundane: the same commute, the same small routines, day after day. On the suburban train it taught me people, each one carrying a story I only ever caught the middle of. It showed me beautiful, pure-hearted people, and streets where comfort and hardship stood a few feet apart. Living among those contrasts, I started asking what an achievement is really worth, and what a life is for.
Somehow, all of it left me wanting to do bigger, and do better. Eight months in, for personal reasons, I had to leave.
I love taking photographs, and Chennai gave me plenty.
062025
On my own.
Then began the great journey of my own explorations.
I learned how machine learning runs in production, not just in a notebook. I built full-stack apps end to end, and took on small web-scraping and data-cleaning projects for the practice.
And I listened. Felix Josemon’s Kerala Product Hunt, Raj Shamani, the eCom Show by Shan, Omar Waseem and many more: people who had built, marketed and sold real products, telling the story of how. Their stories were enormously motivating, and they still are.
On repeat
072025 to now
The problem I couldn’t forget.
That was when I started looking for friction in my own life: the small, stubborn problems that cost people hours and that nobody had bothered to fix.
Two of them came home with me from JMAN. Making realistic test data was slow and painful, so I built a tool for it from scratch and called it Misata. We had also worked on entity resolution with Splink, which is powerful but wants a specialist, so I built Entify, a no-code version anyone can point at messy records.
Misata is where I did every job at once: the Python engine, the backend, the frontend, SEO, GEO, go-to-market and talking to people. Me and my little Claude. The library gets about 2,000 downloads a month, and when I posted about it, a VC reached out.
Misata
misata.studioMuhammed Rasin O M
Founder, which means:
- Frontend
- Backend
- Python systems
- SEO
- GEO
- Go-to-market
- Talking to people
70+ GitHub stars · 50+ Studio users · Claude for Startups
Nobody:
Me and my little Claude:
08Along the way
A lot of projects.
I spent my scrolling on Reddit forums and X instead of Instagram, reading how people built things and the difference those things made. Then I would go and build something of my own.
There were many. A legal search over 10,588 Indian court judgments. BIM-Graph, which answers questions about building plans. A wind and solar forecaster that would have placed second of 66 teams in a 2024 competition. A flood-response demo built in two days.
Each one taught me how a different business works. Somewhere in there I found where I want to sit: where business, data and AI meet.
09Honestly
The honest part.
For the past year I did something almost every day, however small. That was the consistency I was trying to build, and the map is the record of it.
It went in a lot of directions: from a few chapters of Fluent Python to production MLOps, from Next.js to streaming data through Kafka, from FastAPI to Node.js.
And honestly, I don’t remember much of it as well as I should, because I never stayed with one thing long enough to build it into my hands. That is what I need now: one product to go all in on.
4,507 contributions in the last year
Something done on 323 of 370 days
10On timing
Late to the party.
There are people my age with far more years behind them. I won’t pretend otherwise: I arrived late to the party.
But I didn’t spend the wait standing at the door. I spent it teaching myself, building nearly every day, getting ready for the moment someone asks what I can do.
When I find a product I can commit to, I commit, and I grow into it faster than my years would suggest. I can show you that, once someone lets me in.
| Flight | Destination | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RM 2026 | Your team | Boarding |
11Dec 2025
The first client.
Alongside all this I took contract work. DearPriceHunter, a Swedish startup, came to me with an idea for an MVP: software that looks at what a company spends with its suppliers.
I built the backend and its AI features: file ingestion, a detector for unusual spending with reports in English and Swedish, models kept in an EU region so the data stayed put. The idea went on to become a registered company in Sweden.
“He doesn’t just do what you ask; he actively improves the solution, flags risks early, and proposes better approaches when needed. He has an amazing way to sort out the most messy and fluffy visions into real life details and functions.”
122026
Right now.
Right now I’m building Misata Studio, where more than 50 people already make realistic data to test, teach and demo with.
Part of that is building synthetic worlds for people to use: complete datasets of companies that don’t exist. Pepperwind Trading Co. is one, a spice and tea trader from Kochi, with 223 tables and 79 million rows.
Misata stays a side project. Before I lead a product of my own, I want to watch one grow inside a real company, so the rest of the time I’m at arrivals, holding a sign, waiting for the team I’ll commit to.
13Off the clock
The thinker.
Outside work I read philosophy and I write. Most things that make me think, really. A window seat is where the best of it happens.
14Out loud
Ready to be the cringe.
Remember the boy everyone said would be someone great? For years I guarded that sentence by never starting anything I might look bad at.
I called it being careful. Looking back, it was a ceiling I built over my own head, one unasked question at a time.
I can’t afford that any more. So I’m saying it out loud, and I’m ready to look foolish until I’m not.
“Every sage was once a student.”
Me, finally saying it out loud
15The case
Why me?
I don’t have a CV that will impress you on its own.
What I have is a record of learning things from zero, now that I have stopped avoiding it. That’s the asset.
It is why I can sit in engineering, product, go-to-market or solutions: the skills a role needs are the part I pick up quickly. What I want in return is one company, one product, for years.
| Flight | Destination | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RM 01 | Engineering | Boarding |
| RM 02 | Product | Boarding |
| RM 03 | Go-to-market | Boarding |
| RM 04 | Solutions eng. | Boarding |
2020
Missed aeronautics. Chose code, knowing none.
College
Code was hard. Then a perceptron hooked me.
2024
Graduated, CGPA 8.52. First job, in Chennai.
Feb 2025
Left the job, for personal reasons.
2025
Dec 2025
First client MVP. It became a Swedish company.
2026
Misata Studio, 50+ users. Synthetic worlds for anyone to use.
Next
Your team.
For the data people: a 2022 re-analysis of a century of hiring research found that years of experience predict job performance at r = .07, and samples of real work at .33. So I would rather show you the work. Sackett et al., Journal of Applied Psychology, 2022
16What you get
The trade.
Most of what I want to do with my life is still ahead of me, and nearly all of it begins with becoming very good at this work.
So here is the trade. You hand me something you care about, and I look after it the way you would, as if your name were on it.
You get someone who has already built a product and sold it, and who has waited a long time to pour everything into one. I get the chance to become the person they said I would be.
17Last page
For him.
Somewhere between growing up and getting on with it, most of us misplace the child we were. We stop looking up. We learn to call our dreams childish, and then we stop calling them anything at all.
I don’t want to lose him. The boy in this photo looked at the sky and saw somewhere to go. He knew nothing of percentiles or closed doors. He only knew that planes could fly, and that he wanted to be near them.
He dreamed big before anyone told him how hard it would be. For his sake, I want to keep dreaming that big, and to build a life he would recognise.
The plane on this page is his. I’m only flying it.
rasinbinabdulla@gmail.com
Kozhikode, Kerala. Remote, on site or relocating.
