This is Gazi.

This is Gazi. She makes her entire personality being a software engineer. So, how did she become this? Once upon a time, Gazi was a chaotic over-achiever. She did everything. Made art for her school's yearbook. Rain tapped against the window in a steady rhythm, the only sound in the dim room besides the faint rustle of Levi's shirt as he sat beside you—close enough to touch, but still miles away. His eyes, shadowed and unreadable, stayed fixed on the floor, hands resting on his knees like he didn't trust them not to tremble. "I shouldn't have let it get this far," he said quietly, each word dragging through his throat. That got way too many reads on Wattpad. And played basketball despite being... Vertically challenged. I'm 5'5, thank you. Her tech origin story. Dad got her a Windows XP desktop, and she nearly burned the house down trying to upgrade the RAM. Hey! I think I redeemed myself by building this. Took you only a decade. Thing is, to be a software engineer. She just liked solving problems. So, she chose the path of maximum resistance, ended up at Google, coding in her pajamas and drinking diet coke. Team Diet Coke Does Not Cause Cancer. No grand origin story. No life-changing hackathon. Just a girl who kept doing hard things until the easy ones felt boring. So next time you ask her, "Why did you become a software engineer?" She'll say, "I genuinely don't know. But if you stick around, I promise there's more to me than just my job title." Like the steamy fanfics. Can we not-