Trust the Process

This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge : Echoes of Experience My tech journey didn't start with a grand master plan. As a student at NIT Delhi, my initial foray into the software world began exactly how you'd expect: piecing together basic projects, struggling with seemingly endless bugs, and celebrating when a simple script finally ran without throwing an error. But the real turning point happened when I stepped into the hackathon arena. I threw myself into building under pressure, but it wasn't an overnight success story. I participated in more than six hackathons, ensuring I had a valid, working submission every single time. My trajectory was a slow, deliberate climb. I went from just being happy to submit, to cracking the Top 50. I kept refining my craft—diving deeper into AI and building complex projects eventually pushed me into the Top 10. That hackathon grit paved the way for my professional career. My first real break was at Cabeasy, where I learned how to transla