ojas@portfolio:~/life$ cat story.md
The other side_
Before the models and the billions of records, there was a football pitch in Germany. This is that story.
$ git log --life --reverse
before
Professional footballer — Germany
Played football professionally in Germany. Discipline, pressure, and reading the game in real time — the original pattern-recognition training.
the break
ACL injury
A torn ACL ended the playing career. The recovery months became the pivot point: if I couldn't read the game on the pitch, I'd read it in the data.
now
Data science & AI
Same athlete's obsession, new arena — from a Master's in Statistics at Rutgers to modeling billions of records and building LLM systems.
Still running
source: StravaThe knee is rebuilt and the engine still runs — every mile tracked on Strava.
$ ls ~/side-builds/
./ask-ojas
The terminal chatbot on this very site — ask it anything about me.
./this portfolio
Next.js + Tailwind + Framer Motion, riced like my Linux setup.
./running analytics
The Strava-powered running dashboard on this site — weekly volume, pace trends, recent runs.
$ feh ~/photos/ --montage
# same human, different terminal — if any of this resonates, say hi anytime at ojassharma16@gmail.com
scroll to continue$ cd ~→back to the start — the home prompt.