I spent twenty years building systems where forgetting gets people killed.

As Chief Architect at American Airlines, I designed technology that served over 200 million passengers a year. Every bolt torqued, every inspection completed, every maintenance cycle — the system had to remember everything. One forgotten entry and planes do not fly. People do not get home.

When EmpowerMX was acquired by IFS in 2024, I stopped. I stopped and asked the question that had been building for years: what actually matters? Not what scales. What actually matters to a human being who is trying to hold it all together.

That question became a book. "Becoming Human: Embracing Imperfection and Finding Purpose" is not a business book. It is a confession — about the loneliness that success brings, the weight of being the strongest person in the room, and the slow, honest work of learning to be whole.

Think about it. You pour your heart out to a wellness app on Tuesday. Thursday it asks "How can I help you?" like you have never met. That is not support. That is abandonment dressed up as technology. In aviation, we would never accept a system that forgets what it inspected yesterday. But in mental health, we treat amnesia as a feature.

That is why Menthra exists. The people who trust you with their story deserve a system that remembers it.

I hold degrees from IIT Bombay and Cornell University. I am also the founder of Aauti, Saayam, and Aautiverse — all built on the same conviction: technology should reflect human stories, not erase them.