“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great”
is my motto for winning the life. At the age of 16, I started my own start-up with three team members and now I am 17 years old and earned approximately 860 CAD within a year. My name is Nikhil, and I am currently in
12th at Dev Samaj Vidya Niketan School, Gurugram, Haryana,
. My subjects are Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, and
. I have a great
in
, and
. Apart from that, I am a district-level champion in lawn tennis.
I got my
personal laptop when I was 12 years old, I used to watch a
of movies and playing games but
I watch three movies “The social network”, “Interstellar”, and “Who am I? No
is safe”. Basically, these movies are about the biography of Mark Zuckerberg,
, and a fictional story of a
genius respectively. From that
, my curiosity toward
and
dramatically increased and I made my decision that I will make my own brand in the IT sector like Accenture and Deloitte. I started learning
in 6th
but it was really difficult for me to understand, I lost my
in programming because I did not understand anything, My sister is a data scientist so she taught me the basics of
. I watched many online tutorials on YouTube and read a
of e-books. After two years, I knew the basics of
, JavaScript, and HTML and really
hard to advance my
. I made some core
like Snake
, Hangman
, calculator in
. In 9th
, everyone in my
was learning about computers and networks while I was learning more powerful languages
as C++. At the beginning of
10th, I started learning Unity for
.
The year 2020 was the most important and life-changing year for me, there was complete lockdown everywhere in
so
was the perfect
for being productive. I enrolled in more than 15 courses
as The data scientist’s toolbox, Algorithms, AI for everyone,
, Programming for everybody, data analysis for machine learning, neural network, and deep learning on Coursera offered by prestigious institutions including Stanford, John Hopkins, Deep learning. AI, Michigan state, and the
of Alberta, and other courses from Udemy. I started practising my
on HackerRank, I have a gold badge in
and a silver badge in Java
verified
certificates of
, Problem solving, and Java. I participated in competitive programming (
Euler+) and I have 380 ranks among 146243 programmers globally. As I have a great
in
and
so I decide to combine both of them. I made black hole visualization using JavaScript and HTML, where we can see how photons travel through a black hole’s event horizons. My
was 3-Dimensional solar
visualization and I
developed an International
station (ISS) tracker in
using NASA’s Official API to get information about astronomers who are currently in ISS and the exact location of ISS. Apart from that I
developed machine learning, AI and, deep learning
like the Tesla Lane detection model using the OpenCV library,
model detects the white marking on the roads to detect the lane, I uploaded all my
on GitHub and now I have more than 1.1K followers on GitHub. Apart from programming
I
have leadership and communication
, I am president of my school
club and participated in my school’s seminar where I got a chance to give a speech in front of 500
to encourage them to follow their passion
, In pandemic my
teacher was suffering from coronavirus and
she gave me an opportunity to teach
to my
for two weeks.
the life-changing part of 2020 begins, I had good knowledge of
, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, React, Tensorflow, Java, and SQL
knew the basics of Django, R studio. So I decided to start my own start-up but I did not have much real-world experience than I did Microsoft and Deloitte virtual internships but that was not enough so I started working with a small web
start-up based in UAE and Germany.
, they did not have money for a new member so I
for them without charging any money. In the beginning, I faced a
of problems with databases but they taught me databases very deeply. Now, that was the best
for a start-up and I started my own company with three team members called GrowMore. It is a
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, UI/UX design,
company, I did not have funds for advertising. It may seem silly but I started free advertising on LinkedIn, Freelancer, and Fiverr. Basically, people bid on
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for themselves but I bid for GrowMore.
, a client on freelancer had a budget of $100
we bid $50-$60 for the same
and give all information to the client about GrowMore but it was not so easy. Trust is the most expensive thing in the business and we were completely new in
so it was really hard to develop trust. We gave our words to clients that we won’t charge advance money
we got 3 clients and 1 of them did fraud, we gave them files but they did not pay us but we earn our
$140 from other 2 clients. We approach small and new businesses on LinkedIn and offer them our affordable website plan. We developed five dental clinic websites, agriculture land websites, and many more. I started with 0 and now I earned 860 CAD. Currently, I am attending a course by Ritesh Agarwal (CEO at OYO and one of the youngest billionaires in
) about entrepreneurship. I met many IT consultants, entrepreneurs, and young minds there and shared our experiences. I have pretty good
management
, It is really difficult to manage a start-up with school
so I decided to
in the day and working on
at night.
I never do programming to get a job, I do programming as an art. I love programming because I can develop whatever I want to.
, I combined my
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and
and made black hole visualization. I do not want to see my passion as a dream, I
hard for my passion to make it real even at a very early age, So it is supernatural for me to opt for
. My curiosity toward
is very good even I did not wait for my
studies, I enrolled in a
of online courses and learned different programming languages. And
my start-up is based on
and it is really important for me. As a matter of fact,
usually think before choosing any subject but I don’t need to think because
is the only subject which I want to
since my childhood.
As regards my future plans, Most of the accidents happen due to the drowsiness of
and drunken driving. So, to solve
issue, I am working on a website, which will provide instant support to drunken
and other
who feel sleepy due to lack of sleep, I build an ML
using
, OpenCV, and Keras which alerts the
when they get sleepy and I already made
but
not enough, I
want a
in that website that will only for a drunken driver.
will scan the driver's face and every movement and if it seems unusual
notification and live location will be sent to the nearest police officer.
will definitely decrease the accident rate. Unfortunately, I am not capable of
so, I will try to complete
during my undergrad
. Apart from that, I will do a job as a software engineer in tech companies to gain some experience.
does not want employees anymore due to its population,
wants companies that give jobs. So, I will make my ‘GrowMore’ more successful IT company like Accenture.
The
of Alberta is one of the best universities in Canada. It is the only
on my priority list because of the amazing research in AI, ML,
vision, and many more. I have had an eye on your researches for the
5-6 months. You have the best professors and I would like to attend my classes with brilliant professors especially
Duane Szafron and
Paul Lu. I took a course on Problem-solving,
programming, and Video games offered by the
of Alberta on Coursera where I loved teaching methods with the relating examples of
Duane Szafron and
Paul Lu. The main reason is the solid student community, I made some friends in your
and the common thing is many
have brilliant start-up ideas and I do not want to miss
opportunity to
with the best professors and talented young minds.