About

I'm Hameed Rahamathullah, a self-taught builder from Chennai. I've been learning technology by making things since I was 10 years of age, and I've never been to school or college. More about me →

Work

• 
  Ellora (opens in a new tab)Co-founder and CTO

  An AI writing editor that keeps every draft in your team’s voice.

  Co-founded it and serve as CTO, building the product.

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  AI Builders Network (opens in a new tab)Organizer

  A community of AI builders in Chennai.

  I run the community.

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  SuccessCo-founder and CTOPast

  A presales platform that helped sales engineers run POCs.

  Co-founded it and served as CTO. Gartner named it a Cool Vendor.

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  KineticsCo-founder and CTOPast

  An inbound hiring platform linking marketing campaigns to ATS.

  Co-founded it and led engineering as CTO.

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  Alpha WeblabTechnical Co-founderPast

  A software agency that served clients around the world.

  Co-founded and ran it for ten years, delivering 500+ projects.

Thoughts

• Obsession climbs the abstraction ladderAugust 6, 2026

  The more we obsess about code, the more we become programmers. Obsession with value made us product engineers. Now it is all about systems.

• How to think about knowledge work in the AI eraJune 16, 2026

  A team shipped more in one quarter than they had in the previous three. Six months later, revenue had not moved.

• Token budgets are an estimation problemMay 28, 2026

  This entire token budget war is the most difficult battle for software engineering teams for one reason: estimation.

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