standbymarch 2023
i start on a marketplace that will take three years before a single person can use it.
nothing else is running.
hi.i'm Sasha.
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I'm a developer, photographer, and founder based in London. I'm the CEO of KidsHustle — a platform helping kids and teens earn money through quick jobs.
I build things for the web and Apple platforms, with a stack spanning Python, Swift, and modern web technologies backed by Google Cloud and Kubernetes. I care about clean architecture, developer experience, and shipping things that work.
I'm also part of Young Founders of London — a curated community of the city's most ambitious student entrepreneurs.
Outside of code, I do theatre tech, love cooking, and I'm usually out with a camera somewhere in London.
Young Founders of London→five strands, three years, mostly running at the same time. scroll to call the show.
standbymarch 2023
i start on a marketplace that will take three years before a single person can use it.
nothing else is running.
cue 1late 2023
a second strand opens — school theatre. lights, sound, calling cues from the book.
it matters later.
cue 22024
six more start inside twelve months. apps, a chat client, a cluster in the house.
the marketplace is still half-built underneath all of it.
cue 3march 2025
every lane lit at once. eight things running, thirty-one technologies in play,
and a hand-designed PCB on the bench.
cue 4 — goapril 2026
fifteen microservices. ICO registration. payments, identity, and three years of nerve.
KidsHustle goes live on the App Store.
curtainnow
seven still running. tech.eu ran the story in august; i was fourteen.
standby for the next one.
that's the show. here's the set —
October 2026—7 running at once
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A regulated UK marketplace connecting 13–17 year-olds with local paid work posted by parents. Architecture through to App Store launch.
A SwiftUI iPad app for theatre Deputy Stage Managers — script and cue management, fully offline, no data collection.
A native iOS anime tracker with StoreKit 2 subscriptions, published on the App Store.
Privacy-focused, open-source poll creation — no accounts, no tracking.
A ticket scanning system for live events, syncing across iOS and macOS with CloudKit and SwiftData.
Real-time Stripe purchase alerts on iOS, for watching a box office fill up live.
Secure, token-based chat with a retro 8-bit aesthetic.
A modular lamp built around a hand-designed PCB, fabricated by JLCPCB and driven by a Raspberry Pi.
A three-node Proxmox cluster behind a UniFi network, running everything I would rather not rent.
Daily help in the theatre and production management outside school hours, plus weekly assembly video and audio mixing.
A documentary on Black British civil rights after 1945 — written, directed, filmed and edited solo.
A weekly session a friend and I started and run, teaching a different photography idea each week.
A curated community of London's most ambitious student entrepreneurs.
Competed in Python in Round 1 and qualified for Round 2.
mostly London, mostly wandering.
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