hey, i'm junaid mahmood

i grew up in Toronto, Ontario.

at 13, i won my first hackathon at Kurius and made my first ever video game in C#, Emberdoom.

at 14, i made videos on YouTube and crossed 2M+ cumulative views. that taught me early that people can tell when you genuinely care about what you're making.

at 15, i was writing cheats & exploits for video games. i realized then i didn't have to be skillfully good at games to be the best.

a year later i built Pinnacle Sniper, a crypto trading bot that ran on its own and turned $70 into 40 solana ~$9,000.

after high school, i took a gap year before university.

now i'm building Trident (YYC S26).

the thing that's never really changed is how i think. patterns, systems, probabilities. that's where my head goes by default.