Hi, I’m
Nabeel.

Hi, I’m Nabeel. I’ve always broken things just to build them again. As a kid it was alternate LEGO builds, as a teenager it was fixing shitbox Miatas, and by college I was looking for the next thing to take apart. Software felt like the obvious next step in my life’s motif.

I became a software engineer straight out of university, right as ChatGPT started taking over the world. I was writing slow code and mending it with AI, until eventually I was barely writing any code myself. I lost my love for the game. They sold me on being a problem solver, but most days I was just reviewing what AI wrote.

Things changed when I started working with customers. They kept bringing me problems that no off-the-shelf solution could fix. And I didn’t always know the answer. The search, the frustration, the trial and error all returned. The same feeling that programming used to give me, I now get by increasing shareholder value. Jk, I get it by seeing my work show up in someone’s actual results.

So that’s how I ended up doing GTM at Syft Data. I realized engineering never actually left. I still have to understand how things fit together and test my assumptions. These days, that means helping companies figure out who might need their product, how to start a useful conversation with them, and whether those conversations actually turn into customers.

I couldn’t have mapped out a career from fixing Miatas to building outreach systems, but it’s been the same thing every time: I like getting involved enough to understand why something isn’t working, and having the room to do something about it.