About
Curious, deliberate, and happiest on a team
Where I come from
I am Persian — that is the household I grew up in, with its own language, its own food and its own very long dinners — and my life outside that household has been split almost exactly in half: half of it in Australia, half of it in Singapore. Persian at home, Australian in the years that shaped how I speak and how I play sport, Singaporean in the city I now call mine.
Being three things at once made me a translator by instinct. I notice the moment a room stops understanding itself, and I have learned that repairing that is usually the most useful thing anyone in it can do.
I finish my final year in 2026 and will study finance — with the deliberate aim of working where the analysis meets the people it is about, rather than stopping at the spreadsheet.
In the pool
Six seasons of water polo have taught me more about working with people than any classroom has. It is a sport that punishes individualism: you cannot see the whole pool, so you have to trust the teammate you cannot see and be worth trusting in return. Years of early training have also left me with a plain relationship with discipline — you show up, especially on the mornings you would rather not.
I intend to keep playing at university and to help build the culture of whichever squad I join, in the water and out of it.
What service taught me
Where you are born should never decide what you get to become
Through S4S and H.O.T.E.L School I built empathy, adaptability and a genuine stake in the people around me. Meeting students in rural India who had so little and carried so much determination made me confront my own privilege honestly, and it settled a belief I now hold firmly: opportunity should not be an accident of postcode.
My most rewarding challenge has been learning to aim my enthusiasm rather than simply have it — keeping a tired team moving through the last shift of H.O.T.E.L School, or turning conviction about S4S into a speech that reached an entire school community. Those experiences set how I meet difficult work now: with curiosity, with the team, and to the end.
What I am building toward
At university I plan to keep volunteering through 180 Degrees Consulting, putting finance studies to work helping non-profits stretch what they already have. Alongside that I intend to stay close to AI automation, because the organisations with the least administrative slack are usually the ones doing the most good with it.
If you are weighing me up for a place, a role or a team: the record is short but it is real, and every line of it is something I would be glad to be asked about.
