I’m Miraj. On senior decision day in high school, everyone else was wearing their future school’s gear, and I had nothing. First-born son of Ghanaian immigrant parents, no script to follow, just an opportunity I wasn’t going to waste. I enrolled in community college and picked computer science almost at random, mostly because a friend said that’s what they were studying. It ended up being one of the best decisions of my life. After transferring to finish my degree, things clicked: data structures, systems, leading my university’s CS club, building things end to end instead of just for a grade. Building, not just studying, is what stuck with me, then and now.

Right now I’m building Bayin: data, analytics, and billing process consulting for home care agencies, started from cold calling agencies directly and signing my first client. Before this there was Salis, an AI-driven checkout system for produce that I spent a little over half a year building end to end, edge device, backend, and a computer vision model trained with a couple collaborators. I shelved it. The real lesson wasn’t the tech, it was that I built for months before validating anyone would pay for it. Bayin is the opposite approach: validate first, build second. Salis isn’t a failure I’m hiding, it’s the reason Bayin exists the way it does.

A data engineering job pays for all of this right now. Outside of building, I lift and work on my public speaking through Toastmasters. I’m into language learning generally, Egyptian Arabic right now, and I like being outside more than anywhere else, which is turning into an actual mountaineering progression: Mount Washington and the Kaçkar range in Turkey are next, with bigger ones down the line.

If anything here resonates, find me on GitHub, connect on LinkedIn, email me at [email protected], or poke around how this site works.