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Hey, I'm Shamim, co-founder and COO at Genetech Solutions since 2005. Twenty years now building software for clients across healthcare, fintech, and logistics, web, mobile, AI-enabled, whatever the problem actually needs.
I also founded CodeGirls, empowering women in Pakistan through coding and business skills, and I sit on the board of P@SHA, pushing Pakistan's tech industry onto the global stage. On the product side, WordPress is home turf too; we build plugins at Genetech.
I might be new to Product Hunt, but I know my work well. Would love to connect with anyone who genuinely enjoys talking AI, tech, leadership, SaaS products, or WordPress.
I share more of this thinking on Medium, and in my newsletter The Leadership Lens, on Substack. If any of this sounds like your world, let's talk.
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The CodeGirls detail is the one I'd actually ask about. Less the mission statement, more the mechanics: what turns out to be the real bottleneck for getting more women through and placed, is it awareness and getting people to sign up in the first place, access to devices or reliable internet once they're in, or something that shows up later when they try to actually get hired?
@shamimrajani This point you mentioned about missing confidence in women, in the thread with @abdullah_javaid3 really resonated with me.
I'm an Senior Software Engineer, and throughout my career I've often been one of the few women in the room. One pattern I've noticed, especially while interviewing candidates, is that confidence and competence don't always grow at the same pace. I've met candidates who answered confidently even when they were wrong, while others hesitated despite knowing the right answer.
I had a similar experience just last week.
I was giving two AI sessions in my company, the first presentations I'd delivered in about 1.5 years. Before this, I'd spoken regularly, even presenting in workshops for government audiences, but being out of practice got to me.
After the first session, I genuinely thought I'd done terribly. In my head it was a 3/10. I felt I'd rambled, repeated myself, and paused far too much. The second session felt a little better, maybe a 6/10.
Then I asked my manager for feedback.
He told me both sessions were good, the team praised me as well, my delivery was confident, and that most of the criticism existed only in my own head.
That conversation reminded me how often we're our own toughest critics. Confidence isn't just about knowing your craft. It's also about trusting yourself enough to let your experience speak.
Really admire what you're building with CodeGirls. Helping people develop that confidence may end up being just as valuable as teaching the technical skills themselves.
Also, lovely to meet you here! I'm the co-founder of @Track AI , currently trying to find our first few users, so it's inspiring to hear stories like yours.
@shamimrajani @riya324 The gap between your 3/10 and what the room actually saw is the tell. Rust from 1.5 years off reads as a bad session from the inside and invisible from the outside, which is a different problem than actually being bad, and it fixes itself by session three, not by getting harder on yourself. Good luck finding your first users with Track AI.
@shamimrajani @abdullah_javaid3 That's a great observation. "Rust" is exactly the word I was missing. I was judging myself against my old baseline instead of recognizing that getting back into the rhythm just takes a few reps. Thanks!