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The 5 stands for Panj.

5SHIRY comes from Panjshiry — Panjshir, the province in Afghanistan where I was born. Panj means five. The rest of the name is the part I kept.

It reads as a handle, a studio, and a system. All three were intended. A name that belongs to one person now, and can hold more than one person later.

Zae — Sayed Sharif Agha
IDENTITY / ZAESAYED SHARIF AGHACALIFORNIA, USA

02 / FIELD EXPERIENCE

Kabul. The person people called when things stopped working.

At a construction company in Kabul supporting more than twenty employees, I became the person people called when technology stopped working. Computers, networks, printers, cameras, office electronics — and the software, installation, troubleshooting, and repairs that went with them.

There was no ticketing system and no second-line support. You diagnosed it, fixed it, and learned the next thing on the way. That is where the habit started: understand the problem, find what is actually broken, make the whole system work.

WHAT IT TAUGHT

  • Diagnosis before solution
  • Hardware and software are one system
  • Nobody is coming to fix it for you

Understand the entire problem. Own the solution end to end.

Nobody in that Kabul office separated design from engineering from operations. Something was broken, and you either fixed the whole thing or it stayed broken. That is still how I work.

It is why I can take a project from an idea to a running business, and why I would rather own the boring parts — deployment, monitoring, the follow-up email nobody wants to write — than hand them to someone else and hope.

Diagnose before buildingOwn the whole stackBoring where boring is rightCap the workload

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CURRENTFounder · Owner · OperatorAxiom Auto Lab — Sacramento, CA
CURRENTFounder · Owner · OperatorZamarud Studio — photography and film
CURRENTIndependent · full-stack, AI, product5SHIRY — California, USA
EARLIEROwner · OperatorSnooker club — Sacramento, CA
EARLIERPhotographerPortrait, automotive, commercial
EARLIERTechnology support · 20+ staffConstruction company — Kabul, Afghanistan

That is the background. Here is the work.

Four live systems, two of them businesses I own and run.