Why I Left My 9-to-5

In this photo, I’m taking a goodbye selfie after leaving my 9-to-5 job.

Was it easy? No.
Did I have to leave? Also no.

I had a stable income, good colleagues, and a clear career path.

But something kept bothering me.

I loved structural engineering. I loved the math, the physics, the creativity, and the responsibility of designing things that stand.

But I didn’t love the workflow.

Too much time was spent on repetitive tasks, manual modeling, copying data between tools, formatting reports, checking drawings, and doing the same work again and again.

At some point, I realized the problem wasn’t structural engineering.

The problem was the way we were doing it.

That frustration pushed me into programming.

First, I wanted to automate small tasks.
Then I started building tools.
Then I became obsessed with one question:

What would structural engineering software look like if we rebuilt it for today?

That question became Awatif.

For the last five years, I’ve been experimenting with new ways to model, analyze, design, draw, and automate structural engineering workflows.

Now I’m taking the biggest risk of my life to turn it into a real company.

In a couple of weeks, we’ll launch the next version of our app.

I’ll be sharing the journey openly: the wins, the failures, the product, the business, and everything I learn along the way.

If you care about the future of structural engineering, automation, or engineering software, follow along.

And if you’re a structural engineer who wants to help shape the product, send me a message. I’d love to show you what we’re building.