Love & let go
Holding on and releasing are both acts of care. I live by knowing which one a moment needs.
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about
Not the résumé version — the longer one. Music, curiosity, side projects, and the slow work of becoming someone I'm proud to be.
Who is Rawshn?
I'm Rawshn — product manager and computer science engineer by training, musician and tinkerer by temperament. I care deeply about impact: learning constantly, staying autonomous over my time, and building things that help people choose well. I upgrade myself like software — small releases, honest retros, no dramatic reinventions. Friends describe me as cheerful, organised, tech-savvy, and the glue in a group chat. I'm mostly introverted but show up fully for the people I trust.
I don't have to feel ready to be on the right path. I just have to keep choosing the next honest step.
A decade in motion
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School | Loyola School, Bhubaneswar — up to 2013
Loyola School in Bhubaneswar, Odisha — new kid, chasing marks, finding friends, surviving boards. Being a Loyolean shaped how I show up: structured when it matters, loyal to the people who stuck around.
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Education | KIIT · Computer Science Engineering — 2015–2019
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology — structure, late-night side projects, and a ticket into tech. Trained as a computer science engineer: problem-solving, systems thinking, and enough code to build my own tools.
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Founder | Codepth LLP — 2018–2021
Registered a company after college and ran Codepth — real clients, real money, real lessons. Proud of trying in public, even when it didn't scale the way I hoped.
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Work | Security Engineering — 2019–2022
A few years in enterprise security and engineering — learning how large systems run and how risk gets managed. Discovered I liked building more than guarding perimeters.
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Work | Product Management — 2022–present
Product craft now — framing problems, shipping with teams, measuring what moved. Same curiosity as the kid at Loyola; different tools.
Why music matters
Why it sticks
- Music is my emotional outlet — the place I go when words run out. Singing, guitar, drums, and DJing all feed the same need.
- Sang and played the drums in bands in school and college; participated in band competitions. Picked up playing guitar in college.
- Hard rock roots (Linkin Park, festivals, screaming along) gave way to deep house and techno — same hunger, different frequencies.
- Self-taught on voice and instruments; parents funded school, not a music career.
- Now on a DDJ FLX4 — Rekordbox, playlists as mood boards. First mixes sound bad. Getting better every day.
- At 19, wrote to musicians I admired — hopeless yet hopeful.
Taste evolution
Then
Hard rock — Linkin Park, festivals, screaming along until my voice gave out.
Now
Deep house and techno on the DDJ — same hunger, different frequencies. Still chasing the floor at festivals and raves.
What I pay attention to
Rabbit holes with a point.
Interests
Music Psychology Mental Health Travel Systems Building Artificial Intelligence Personal Finance Geopolitics Current Affairs
Love & reflection
Upgrade like software
Personal growth as incremental releases — small upgrades beat dramatic reinventions. Humble about skill level; stubborn about showing up.
EQ ≥ IQ
Emotional intelligence matters as much as intellect. I show up emotionally, not just logically, for the people I care about.
Men need both sides
Men who truly succeed balance emotion and logic — neither alone is enough. Feminist values show up in how I listen, show up in groups, and what I refuse to normalise.
How I grow
Small bricks, not dramatic reinventions.
Small bricks
- Order groceries when sick instead of waiting to be rescued.
- Skip a workout without a shame spiral.
- Practice rough DJ transitions anyway.
- Ship an imperfect site version.
- Choose to feel something instead of going numb.
- Ask for help before I'm drowning — still learning this one.