Building a body that can keep up with the mission.

I was born on April 18, 2006, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. When I was two, my family moved back to Khanpur District, Pakistan — where I grew up.

My journey into the digital world started very early. I was seven when I first touched a computer seriously, and I started working professionally at twelve. For a long time, my focus was on learning new skills and building things — which meant long hours in front of a screen, and less time for personal care.

As a kid I was obsessed with coding, making games, and building apps. Then came graphic design, 3D modeling, and video editing. Each new passion pulled me deeper into the chair.

In 2020, I spent a whole year learning 3D modeling and working as an artist on Fiverr. My early YouTube channels — UJTutorial and Usman Art — meant even more time sitting and working. In 2021 I moved into video editing and made a documentary with my brother. By 2022 I was producing ads for local businesses in my city.

My skills grew fast, but my body didn't always keep up. My eyes felt heavy. My back would ache. Output was high, but personal habits around fitness quietly slipped.

Building Redsglow — first hand-coded, later rebuilt in WordPress — took months of focused work. Setting up the agency across every social platform meant more long sitting sessions.

At 16, I joined Pearl Lemon Group in the UK — the youngest on the team. I redesigned major websites quickly and took on many projects. I once accidentally crashed the main Pearl Lemon website. A teammate helped fix it, but the stress was real. Those high-pressure moments take a toll if you don't manage them.

I became Head of Web Design, then Head of Social Media. More responsibility, more meetings, more work. Pearl Lemon supported me generously — even personal loans during a home build and my brother's wedding — but the workload meant my own health kept slipping down the priority list.

I'll be honest. Sleep hasn't been on time. Meals haven't been on schedule. I've had stomach issues, small ear problems, pimples on my chest, and a black mark on my leg. These are signs — not disasters, but signs.

I rate my self-care in "looks" a 6 out of 10. I'm skinny, my nose isn't perfect, my eyes get tired, hair isn't always great, and my beard and mustache stay messy. I rate my overall health a 7 out of 10 — decent, but with clear things to fix.

I'm not writing this for sympathy. I'm writing it because pretending everything is perfect is how founders quietly break down. Naming things is step one.

I've shipped 300+ graphic design projects, 190+ websites, and built 1,000+ small converter plugins. I make AI videos, Chrome extensions, and manage teams across ventures.

Every one of those outputs demands a clear mind and steady energy — which only come from real sleep, real food, and real movement. Web design, 3D, video editing, AI research, automation, SEO, and running businesses are all sedentary, screen-heavy, and cognitively expensive.

The math is simple: if I want the next decade of output to beat the last, my body has to keep up with my ambition.

Going forward, fitness and health aren't a "someday" project. They're the foundation everything else runs on.

That means fixed sleep windows, real meals instead of skipped ones, movement built into the day, screen breaks that I actually take, and finally addressing the small health issues I've been ignoring — the stomach, the ears, the skin.

I'm not chasing perfection. I'm chasing a version of me that can sustain building for the next 20 years — clear-eyed, calm, and strong enough to keep showing up.